3. Inspiration - rotation trick

Inspiration - rotation trick


  • More inspiration from Affinity. This one I discovered by accident thanks to keyboard shortcut confusion because I work with so many programs.

    In Affinity, as in all other programs, you rotate around the selected Transform origin, which in VS is called Pivot Point.

    But you can also rotate around the opposite corner or long side of the object. This is done by starting a normal rotation around a corner and holding down CTRL at the same time.

    Note that rotating around the opposite longside point also adjusts the size of the object or activates skew, which I think is a bug in Affinity.

    But interesting feature which I can already see in far, far majority of cases will make it superfluous that I NEED to move the object's transform origin/Pivot Point.

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    @Ingolf Added this to the backlog. One issue: on Windows the Control key is currently used to disable snapping when rotating.
    In this case snapping is to angles of rotated guidelines.

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