Designer: 3D Objects

[Pyanepsion]

I have a client who asks me to do the DTP of his thesis. He wrote it in Word and used Word 3D objects somewhat similar to this one.

I guess we have to create the object in Affinity Designer, then import the Designer file into a Publisher container.

How to create this type of 3D object with perspective, rotation, inclination, etc.?

[MickRose]

Have you tried creating a PDF from the Word document and then opening the PDF? Then just copy & paste into the new document.

[PixelPest]

We have isometric projection&snapping:

[Pyanepsion]

5 hours ago, MickRose said:

Then just copy & paste into the new [PDF] document.

Use publisher to reproduce Word! Oh no! That one is not to be done.

4 hours ago, PixelPest said:

We have isometric projection&snapping

This is a very interesting function. Thanks.

This works well for flat surfaces. I do not understand how we do for the curves of the initial image.

Here is what it gives for the moment.

 

[PixelPest]

Draw in front view - than click "Fit to Plane" and if needed do "Edit in Plane".

Cheers

[Pyanepsion]

Surfaces are rarely flat.

Without going to this prowess Nikola Culjic (it’s a drawing), it is common to have a volume on a round.

In the initial example of Word, there is thus an arch that connects each of the parts. How to do?

[Mark Oehlschlager]

To my knowledge, one cannot create actual spheres (though one could fake it with a circle and a radial gradient), and one cannot revolve or extrude shapes into 3D models (though one could fake things like a bottle shape using a flat vector profile and gradient fills).

As for warping text and other artwork to conform to the illusion of a 3D form, there are no vector warp tools in Affinity Designer, but one can rasterize vector art or a bit of text and then use the Mesh Warp tool from Affinity Photo to convincingly "bend" the art around the "3D-like" object.

[Alfred]

2 hours ago, Pyanepsion said:

Nikola Culjic (it’s a drawing)

More amazing drawings by Nikola Čuljić can be seen here.

[PixelPest]

3 hours ago, Pyanepsion said:

How to do?

Did you ever draw something in a vector.app?

I dare not say how trivial that is:

Oh and your signboards are shearing:

Cheers

 

[Pyanepsion]

I know how to create vector drawings.

Yes ! Making reliefs with curves is usually quite easy, but I do not know about Affinity Designer. A point singularly complicates the thing: the translation into French is often ... a little peculiar.

Screen copies or a video would be welcome.

[PixelPest]

Not sure if this will help then:

[firstdefence]

Actually within Word there appears to be a display issue because if you zoom into that shape it displays like this

[PixelPest]

I don´t have Word. The shown output is questionable me thinks.

White border way too large:

Cheers

[ashf]

How about just copying&pasting a 3d object from Word to Affinity?

[firstdefence]

3 hours ago, ashf said:

How about just copying&pasting a 3d object from Word to Affinity?

Comes into Affinity as an image.

[ashf]

7 minutes ago, firstdefence said:

Comes into Affinity as an image.

I see...