VJSHawaii Posted April 17, 2019 Share Posted April 17, 2019 First off, apologies in advance. I am very much new to the Affinity and digital design in general. I Have played around only enough to get frustrated. I have been trying to teach myself in order to be able to use clothing design templates provided by custom clothing companies, to create unique designs for my business. I am blown away by the detail of Affinity. Daily I am learning more than I ever imagined. That said, I am assuming there is an option to help me manipulate these templates with greater ease, but I am failing to figure it out. To be more clear, lets say I have a template that shows a image of a t-shirt. In that template, each piece of the the t-shirt is broken down by panel. What I aim to do is edit each panel and have it show the edit on the complete image of the t-shirt. I discovered the use of Symbols. Though this would work in some circumstances, where I run into an issue is when the panel does not have the same dimensions when viewed on the complete t-shirt image. The complete T-shirt image is "3D"... so the panels do not take in to account the contour. Is there a way to link a design (or symbol) but have it match an area that differs in dimension? Once again, apologies for the lack of terminology.... I hope to become less of a novice soon! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdenby Posted April 17, 2019 Share Posted April 17, 2019 Hi, VJSHawaii, "Is there a way to link a design (or symbol) but have it match an area that differs in dimension? " Symbol objects can have different dimensions. See attached. Everything was initially 2 instances of a symbol comprised of 4 identical red squares. By turning synching off and on, I changed the dimensions, colors, periphery shapes, etc. My experience w. symbols is somewhat limited, but I have noted that there are some operations that will cause symbol elements to detach, and they can not be re-synched. Unfortunatelly, I haven't worked out what exactly is happening in those cases. Looking at the example illu you posted, I suppose that if it is possible to build symbol(s) to update across the seeming 3D objects, it will nevertheless be quite hard to make. If you want to just change colors, you can create global colors for the panels, and the color fill can update everywhere the colors appear. Quote iMac 27" Retina, c. 2015: OS X 10.11.5: 3.3 GHz I c-5: 32 Gb, AMD Radeon R9 M290 2048 Mb iPad 12.9" Retina, iOS 10, 512 Gb, Apple pencil Huion WH1409 tablet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff DWright Posted April 17, 2019 Staff Share Posted April 17, 2019 If you can get a vector version of the template you can group parts of the template together and apply different fill colours as shown in the rough example below grouped objects.mp4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VJSHawaii Posted April 17, 2019 Author Share Posted April 17, 2019 gdenby: Thanks for this info. I will give it a go! I was imagining there was a way to correlate a specific node from one "symbol" to match a specific node in a different area, thus allowing the design to "wrap" to a 3D design. These designs get sent to the clothing manufacturer and the images are intended to be accurate in both areas. DWright: Cheers! I did stumble upon this concept. It is very helpful, provided the areas are all the same color/design. I included an image (poor image at that) to show what I am intending. This image does not accomplish what I am trying to do. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted April 17, 2019 Share Posted April 17, 2019 3 hours ago, VJSHawaii said: I was imagining there was a way to correlate a specific node from one "symbol" to match a specific node in a different area, thus allowing the design to "wrap" to a 3D design. As long as syncing is enabled, modifying a node in one instance of a vector symbol will modify it in all other instances, but Affinity Designer is not a 3D app so there is no way to 'map' or project a symbol onto a 3D model of the design. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.5.5 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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