GreenGirl Posted July 17, 2019 Posted July 17, 2019 I have an urgent need to create a ring, where along the ring there are 'tick marks' like degrees on a compass, however, due to the nature of the project, I need to be very specific about where these 'ticks' lie around the circle, such that some need to be at a decimal precision of about 8 places. As far as I can tell, Designer only supports rotation precision to 1 decimal place. Is there an option or away to increase this to at the very least 4? Quote
R C-R Posted July 18, 2019 Posted July 18, 2019 14 hours ago, GreenGirl said: As far as I can tell, Designer only supports rotation precision to 1 decimal place. I am not sure of the internal precision, but it must be at least to 6 decimal places, because that is the maximum that can be set in Preferences > User Interface. Note that the preference setting is just for the display of numeric values in the UI -- everything is done at the maximum internal precision of the app. GreenGirl 1 Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.5.7 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
GreenGirl Posted July 18, 2019 Author Posted July 18, 2019 Fantastic! That fixed it! Thank you SO much!!!! Quote
Alfred Posted July 18, 2019 Posted July 18, 2019 Please note that you can use an expression instead of a decimal value. For example, if you type 360/17 you’ll probably get a better result than if you simply approximate it as 21.17647059. GreenGirl 1 Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen)
GreenGirl Posted July 18, 2019 Author Posted July 18, 2019 My problem is that I have to use logarithmic functions to spit out an 'angle' that can be up to 8 decimal places, and that's the point at which I have to draw my 'tick' mark. I doubt I can enter a logarithmic and sine / tan / arcsine function in the angle field. Quote
Alfred Posted July 18, 2019 Posted July 18, 2019 6 minutes ago, GreenGirl said: I doubt I can enter a logarithmic and sine / tan / arcsine function in the angle field. Have you tried it? https://affinity.help/designer/English.lproj/pages/Workspace/expressions.html GreenGirl 1 Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen)
GreenGirl Posted July 18, 2019 Author Posted July 18, 2019 (edited) Thank you - didn't see that... but alas, no log10 function... Edited July 18, 2019 by GreenGirl Quote
Alfred Posted July 18, 2019 Posted July 18, 2019 Just now, GreenGirl said: alas, no log10 function... That’s true, @GreenGirl. Do you feel a feature request coming on, perchance? Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen)
GreenGirl Posted July 18, 2019 Author Posted July 18, 2019 Oh...go on then.. you've tempted me! lol, But it won't help for my current project. Quote
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