mvgraph Posted April 19, 2017 Share Posted April 19, 2017 Just bought Affinity Designer a few days ago and I have this problem: Even when I have a layer locked and I'm working on an upper layer... the paths goes right on to the locked layer and I have to manually move this object to the current layer I was working on. On the image you can see that the selected path is on the locked layer and I started doing that line on the upper layer... it's annoying... There is a way to avoid this? I tryed to restart Affinity Designer... Create another document but the problem stills there so I'm guessing this is a behavior and not a bug. Thanks :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hokusai Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 mvgraph, I don't know if this is right or not but it seems to me that you have a layer above an Artboard and that is what is causing the problem. I would suggest creating the layers as children (under or inside) of the Artboard. So create your Artboard and then with it selected, created your layers so that they are a subset of the Artboard. Then you can lock the layer you want to lock and it will stay within that layer. Or you could just make your document the exact size of the artboard and then not worry about even using an artboard. Hope that helps, Hokusai mvgraph 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted April 20, 2017 Staff Share Posted April 20, 2017 Hi mvgraph, Welcome to Affinity Forums :) This is by design. Any object you draw over an artboard will be automatically moved to the respective artboard layer. As Hokusai suggested the best way to deal with it is having the artboards as main structural elements with everything else inside or just use a regular non-artboard based document and organise the layers as you see fit (in this case the layers are the main structural/organisational element). mvgraph 1 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mvgraph Posted April 20, 2017 Author Share Posted April 20, 2017 mvgraph, I don't know if this is right or not but it seems to me that you have a layer above an Artboard and that is what is causing the problem. I would suggest creating the layers as children (under or inside) of the Artboard. So create your Artboard and then with it selected, created your layers so that they are a subset of the Artboard. Then you can lock the layer you want to lock and it will stay within that layer. Or you could just make your document the exact size of the artboard and then not worry about even using an artboard. Hope that helps, Hokusai Oh yeah, that was the problem. Thanks! So an Arboard is different than a layer... so what is a layer exactly? and if it is above the Artboard why doesn't apply the hierarchy? Well... It's handy that Artboards work that way after all I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted April 20, 2017 Staff Share Posted April 20, 2017 Artboards are "above" layers as structural elements. You can look at them as the document canvas.The only difference is that you can have more than one in the same document. mvgraph 1 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mvgraph Posted April 20, 2017 Author Share Posted April 20, 2017 Artboards are "above" layers as structural elements. You can look at them as the document canvas.The only difference is that you can have more than one in the same document. Gotcha! thanks for the help :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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