I currently use Figma mostly for UI’s. However I have to switch to illustrator to make icons, icons that could have simply been made in Figma.
This doesn’t only affect the pen, but also simply things such as the lines.
All blue lines in images are the pen tool, all white lines are just normal lines.
Here are my QOL suggestions:
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Add length to straight pen lines.
It’s a very simple feature to add, but makes it drastically easier to use the pen tool.
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Add angle to straight pen lines.
Unlike normal lines, pen lines don’t show up in the sidebar. So you can’t see it’s angle. It would be very helpful if that was shown in some way.
A way to modify the angle would also be great, but that’s a lot more work to implement. -
Option to Show & Snap the distance between points in the editor.
They currently have a very simple implementation of this already. However, its very lacking.
If you look at this example:
You will see that the lines snap together. However it doesn’t snap horizontally based on the distance. Making it basically impossible to properly align the points without putting in a lot more effort.
As a software developer, I understand the complexity however. So here’s an example that’s a lot easier, and if this was implemented… It would already be amazing.
I’ve added a point on the line in-between the two other points. Yet it still doesn’t snap based on distance. -
Mirror Mode
I am not talking about this mirroring option:
It should be possible to enable mirroring vertically, horizontally, or both.
This would save a lot of time. -
Vector Merging
Let’s say I want to merge two vectors together. Currently there isn’t a way to do this.
So let’s show an example of what I would normally do:
I would usually just overlap it and it would look fine. However, as shown in the image above. That doesn’t always work, since having single paths results in much cleaner lines.
Having the ability to merge vectors within Figma would be amazing.
These are the main points I wanted to bring up, however im sure others will think of a couple other things.