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Instal Patternodes free2/8/2024 Give it a fill and stroke of none and put it at the very bottom of the stack and lock it. That will be resized to match the exact same dimensions as the document and we name it Reflect. You have a Layer with all of the curves, shapes comprising your face, but you add one more shape, a rectangle. Say you have a document, and then drag out a vertical guide at the exact midway point of the document. Then you create half of a face with the vertical guide in mind. So, I got to thinking, how do I do the same in Designer? Here is my preliminary idea, I use the macro ability of a device like a Tourbox or Stream Deck XL to run a bunch of commands/functions to duplicate and then flip and complete the piece. I love Von Glitschka's tutorials and how he will at times do pieces that have symmetry and will build half a face and then use the Reflect tool to complete the other half of the face. I really miss Illustrator's Reflect Tool. If people are interested I can do some videos showing how easy it is to setup the TourBox to use with Affinity No, it is not as smooth as say what I get on my iPad Pro but it works. So, with the TourBox I use the Dial to Rotate Left and Rotate Right the view (canvas) and press down on the Dial to Reset Rotation as I am sketching/painting with the Stylus on the Xencelabs tablet. I had that on my previous Wacom Intuo Pro tablet and always found it flakey and frustrating to use the Touch feature. I use a Xencelabs Medium Tablet and one of the things it gets dinged for is not having Touch enabled. And you can navigate this menu from the TourBox, use the Scroll wheel and then the Tall Button to make a selection from the menu. And this custom menu can be pinned so that it stays open if you desire. You can have Deselect, New Layer, New Pixel Layer, Rename, etc in this menu. With my left hand on my TourBox, I can interact with the Layers panel and have these toggles set up with the Knob: Select Previous/Select Next, Move Forward/Move Backward, Move Inside/Move Outside, Select Parent/Collapse Layer, Group/Ungroup, etc, and then when I press down on the Knob I have a custom Menu. Now imagine you want to move some objects, move some in front of others, move some inside other objects, or change your mind and move an object outside of another object, or group objects, create a compound, etc, Say you have 4 objects in the layers panel, an Ellipse, a Square Star, a Triangle and a Rectangle. With the Knob I use the Tall, Short, Top and Side buttons to come up with 5 Toggles making up 10 commands. I see one thing you discovered is how the Knob and Scroll wheels can be used as toggles. Thank you for posting your bindings, I will pour over them to find some new ideas. It really does allow an artist to customize their workflow. Yeah, love my TourBox and using it with Affinity apps is great.
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