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Is it possible to rotate a path to more than one decimal place?


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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?

 

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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.

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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.

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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. :/

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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? ears.gif

https://affinity.help/designer/English.lproj/pages/Workspace/expressions.html

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Just now, GreenGirl said:

alas, no log10 function...

That’s true, @GreenGirl. :(

Do you feel a feature request coming on, perchance? whistling.gif

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