simonlayfield Posted September 29, 2019 Share Posted September 29, 2019 (edited) I've also been having some serious issues with performance lately, the beach ball of death regularly appears when even just moving objects on an Artboard. I assume in the below instance it's because I'm using a halftone vector which is somewhat complex, but interestingly it's not when I move the halftone pattern itself - it's when I move a simple path (?) Any advice on how to remedy this would be much appreciated! affinity-designer-performance-issue.mp4 Edited September 29, 2019 by simonlayfield Changed video file Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Gabe Posted September 30, 2019 Staff Share Posted September 30, 2019 Hi @simonlayfield, You probably have snapping on and it's trying to snap to the nodes of that very complex shape. Can you attach the file in question? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonlayfield Posted October 14, 2019 Author Share Posted October 14, 2019 On 9/30/2019 at 8:59 AM, GabrielM said: Hi @simonlayfield, You probably have snapping on and it's trying to snap to the nodes of that very complex shape. Can you attach the file in question? @GabrielM Apologies for the terrible delay in responding! You're right, I do - thanks for the tip! (Non) issue resolved for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonlayfield Posted March 28, 2020 Author Share Posted March 28, 2020 @Gabe Just revisiting this because it's come up a handful of times when using Designer since. The problem I have is that all it takes is one very complex shape to be added to an Artboard and I end up with this issue whenever I want to use snapping to align two (other) paths. Basically, once you've added a complex shape to your artwork, you can forget having the ability to use snapping on any other objects. I thought there might be a way around this by locking the complex shape layer, but that does not seem to be the case. It would be convenient if there were at least a way to tell Designer to 'ignore this shape/layer when snapping'. There are other ways to align objects of course, but snapping is by far the most convenient from a workflow perspective for aligning/resizing objects to match and it's a shame that the snapping feature falls down so easily, especially given that it's highly unlikely for anyone to actually need to align to arbitrary nodes within a complex shape path. I'd hazard a guess it would in most cases be the bounding box you'd need to snap to. Like I said, not a show stopper, but a bit of a niggle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Gabe Posted March 30, 2020 Staff Share Posted March 30, 2020 You can right click on those specific layers and choose "Exclude from snapping" simonlayfield 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonlayfield Posted March 31, 2020 Author Share Posted March 31, 2020 *Facepalm* Thanks Gabe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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