LostInTranslation Posted July 7, 2019 Share Posted July 7, 2019 Hi, from before using Affinity, I am used to having my spread origin (0/0) in the bottom left with positive values going up and right. Designer has it's origin on the top left with positive values going down and right. I'd really like to change that to the way I am used to. I know that recently it is possible to grab the intersection of the rulers and drag them down to the bottom. But the y-axis then gets negative values when going up. Is there a way to really (and preferably permanently) changing the origin to bottom left? Explanation: If I have two objects with different heights and give them the same y-value, they should be on the same baseline. I know I could do this with alignments and stuff, but I'd prefer it this way. Cheers! Petar Petrenko 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted July 7, 2019 Share Posted July 7, 2019 Use the Transform Studio and set the anchor point to the bottom left. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.5 | Affinity Photo 2.5.5 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.5 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted July 7, 2019 Share Posted July 7, 2019 39 minutes ago, Old Bruce said: Use the Transform Studio and set the anchor point to the bottom left. Just setting the anchor point doesn't seem to do anything. Have I missed something else that is needed? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostInTranslation Posted July 7, 2019 Author Share Posted July 7, 2019 1 hour ago, Old Bruce said: Use the Transform Studio and set the anchor point to the bottom left. Sorry, but this does absolutely nothing for the problem I described. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted July 7, 2019 Share Posted July 7, 2019 11 hours ago, LostInTranslation said: Is there a way to really (and preferably permanently) changing the origin to bottom left? No, at least not if you want positive vertical values increasing upwards. But if you ignore the negative sign in the values, in effect you can get what you want. 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...
benwiggy Posted September 8, 2020 Share Posted September 8, 2020 Is there any news on being able to set positive grid values going up? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quillwrite Posted May 13 Share Posted May 13 This is a pretty big problem. Since grade school, nearly sixty years ago, I've known the default origin of the 2 dimensional page, the intersection of the x, y axes (0, 0) to live at the bottom left of the artboard. Numbering above the x axis was positive and below was negative. Numbering to the right of the y axis was positive and numbering to the left was negative. I was of the understanding this was a universal Geometry constant. How does one move beyond point A if no one understands where that is? Is there a way to permenantly relocate the Default Origin to where one understandes it to be? Surely there is and I'm just missing it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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