deeds Posted June 3, 2019 Share Posted June 3, 2019 It used to replicate the last activities of the transforms to an object in subsequent duplicates. Now, nothing at all happens. What is going on? Latest Designer Beta. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted June 3, 2019 Staff Share Posted June 3, 2019 Hi deeds, If you are referring to Power Duplicate (cmd+J) it still does as long as you don't deselect the object during the process. So after creating the first duplicate and pressing cmd+J, transform the duplicate as you want (without ever deselect the object) then press cmd+J again. The changes should be replicated in the subsequent duplicate. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deeds Posted June 10, 2019 Author Share Posted June 10, 2019 When did the change from Duplicate to Power Duplicate occur? For me, Duplicate was always Power Duplicate. Until now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted June 10, 2019 Staff Share Posted June 10, 2019 Duplicate/Power Duplicate is the same feature/funcionality. Power Duplicate just picks a previous duplicate operation and its transforms and repeat them again. There wasn't any changes here. In 1.7 it should work as it always did in 1.6. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deeds Posted June 10, 2019 Author Share Posted June 10, 2019 Sorry. Perhaps I'm not asking clearly. Why is there now a Duplicate that is NOT Power Duplicate? I have only ever known (and heavily relied upon) Duplicate always operating as you describe the operation of what you call "Power Duplicate". And I only ever want Power Duplicate to be how Duplicate works. But, unfortunately, Duplicate is no longer doing the "Power" part of the duplication. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted June 10, 2019 Staff Share Posted June 10, 2019 I've replicated this here now. Seems it depends on how you duplicate the object. Are you using the menus (contextual or main menu on top) for this? I'm logging the issue to be looked at. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deeds Posted June 10, 2019 Author Share Posted June 10, 2019 I've always had a shortcut assigned to it, of just plain D, no modifier, which might give you some idea how much I tend to use it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted June 10, 2019 Staff Share Posted June 10, 2019 If you re-assign the D shortcut again in Affinity Preferences does it then work for you (even if it's already set to D)? Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deeds Posted June 10, 2019 Author Share Posted June 10, 2019 Have just tested in the new store update, by way of changing shortcut to Command+D, and it's working fine. The issues I describe above were happening in the last beta and then the store update, but that was a carryover shortcut. Having reassigned it, and created a conflict with Deselect and then fixed that conflict, it's now working as it used to work. THANK YOU!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted June 10, 2019 Staff Share Posted June 10, 2019 Ok, thanks for letting me know. Still the duplicate command from the menus is not working in the retail version (1.7). Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deeds Posted June 10, 2019 Author Share Posted June 10, 2019 On shortcuts, do you think you could add something that jumps me to the place where the conflict is when I assign a conflicting shortcut, but want to use it and change what it conflicts with? And the ability to add more than one shortcut for a single command. I'd like to have both Command+D for Duplicate, and just plain D, too. However it being just plain D causes problems if the focus is on a text or numeric data entry field, as it enters a d rather than performing the operation. Hence needing Command+D sometimes, but not all the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deeds Posted June 10, 2019 Author Share Posted June 10, 2019 2 minutes ago, MEB said: Still the duplicate command from the menus is not working in the retail version (1.7). I'm glad, in a weird way, that there actually is something wrong. I thought something was wrong with me for the longest time. I was picking up and dragging and testing and trying to figure out whys it wasn't working for ages, and actually went back toooooooo something that won't be mentioned, to do some quick iterative stuff. btw, I edited one of the sample files and then tried to save it. That didn't work, so then I tried to copy out what I'd done, and closed the sample file, to then make a new file and paste my experiments into the new file. That didn't work as the clipboard was empty. Which was weird. It works all the other time, just not out of a sample file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deeds Posted June 10, 2019 Author Share Posted June 10, 2019 Perhaps Connected: Command + A I use for select all. I think this is standard. When Entering Corner Tool, Command + A does nothing. If I choose a vertex, it still does nothing. However the menu choice, from the drop down, it works correctly: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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