A_B_C

It does make sense, Matt, but maybe a little drawing will help in this instance … 
Suppose you add a stroke to a rectangle shape, centered around the rectangle path, just as you did in your drawing.  Furthermore, imagine a circle drawn around a corner point A of that rectangle, such that the diameter of that circle equals the width of the stroke applied to the rectangle. Then the radius of that circle will stand in a ratio of 1 : 1 to one half of the stroke width. See the purple lines in my illustration. Now, when you set the mitre value of your stroke to 1, your stroke will be cropped by a tangent to the circle that is perpendicular to the diagonal from the corner point A to the corresponding corner point of the stroke. The purple non-dashed line of my illustration is part of that diagonal, and the radius of the circle is the geometrical equivalent of the mitre value in our case. And it is basically the same, when you apply a stroke to a non-rectangular polygon. See my second illustration. So when you increase the mitre value, you are basically increasing the radius of the circle. And when the ratio of the radius to one half of the stroke width becomes greater than 1.41 : 1 (which is the approximate ratio of the diagonal of a square to the side of that square), your stroke won’t be cropped anymore. Now, since the rectangles in your drawing are so small, you will have to go a bit further than the ratio of 1.41 : 1 in order to compensate for rounding errors, I guess … 
Hope that is not only technically correct, but also makes sense … 
Alex


 
 

No offence, R C-R, but I give up at this point. I put my trust in the developers that they will understand that having a guide lock option is a legitimate request. 

Hey guys,
 
I tried the dashed line technique as well, but I could not overcome the problems. Better dashed line support was already requested here:
 
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/6973-dashed-line-update-post-12/
 
But here’s another idea. Go for the Text on a Path option:
Create a circle. Use the Artistic Text Tool to put text on the circle. Select a font and type <Bullet Glyph> <Space> …, until you have the desired number of circles on your path. Then select Justified All, adjust the red wedges and the baseline offset. I used the bullet glyph of Arial in my example file, but be aware, that these glyphs are usually not perfect circles. For perfect results you may have to create a custom font of your own. Copy the circle, scale it and remove unwanted glyphs. Repeat and adjust. When you’re done, you can convert your text to curves. Not the perfect method, but the only one I can think of …  :)
 
Cheers,
Alex 
Bullets.afdesign

Hi Kenny,
 
and welcome here  :) …
 
No, what you describe is by design. The vertical axes of the single letters are pointing towards the center of the circle you are using. To achieve what you want, you won’t be able to use the text on a path feature. As I believe, you will have to do it another way … here’s a possible solution (see my screen cast):
Create a single text frame with the Frame Text Tool at 12 o’clock and center your text inside the frame Duplicate this frame to 6 o’clock and rotate it by 180 degrees Group both items Duplicate them by hitting Cmd + J Set the center of rotation on the Transform Panel to the center of the created group and choose 330 degrees rotation Hit Cmd + J ("Power Duplicate") as long as you have the 12 text frames Hope that helps …
Cheers, Alex
Clock.mov

@StuartRc  Looks like my high school geometry teacher from years of yore!!

17. Journal
All Vector 
(420mm x 300mm 300dpi)

15. Guidebook
All Vector 
(1000mm x 600mm 300dpi)
Some Zombie Toolkit Heads but mostly new vector objects including a 'skeleton Kit' and 'Zombie Girl Kit'

14. Roam
All Vector 
(1000mm x 400mm 300dpi)
New Monster Club II sketches

I’m sorry, I had to like all of them! So wonderful. 😀

Some of the reason for the pause in information is a change I made to the @Affinity Info Bot posts which used to tell users that a bug had been fixed and {is/would be} available in a beta available {already/very soon}. However I decided that going forward the bot would only post here once a beta build is actually available. So without starting a 2.6.0 beta, the regular nudge nudge of coming fixes has been silent. Sorry but I felt this change was necessary, as I knew that it would be a long time to tease users that their particular issue was theoretically fixed, but without a 2.6.0 beta to download that same fix was not available to try. I thought that would be incredibly frustrating and cause a lot of users to demand a 2.6 beta started before it was ready. Until now 2.6 has not been ready, and we're still a little way off.
So let me explain why there has been this extended period with no significant new beta..... We recognised that, by introducing multi-page spreads in 2.6 (so more than 2 pages per spread), we were making a significant change that would require a long internal testing period. The rearchitecture of spreads is nearly complete. As soon as we're ready with this and the other new features, we will announce the 2.6 beta in the beta forums and a flurry of over 200 bug fixes will be announced by the Affinity Info Bot.
The changes and improvements in 2.6 will, as Walt says, only be public once the beta starts. The multi-page change is unusual in that it has been discussed early.
 

13. Horizon
All Vector (Needed an Untamed Landscape!)
(1400mm x 400mm 300dpi)

12. Remote
All Vector
(420mm x 600mm 300dpi)

11. Snacks
Raster and Vector
(500mm x 300mm 300dpi)

10. Nomadic
Raster and Vector
(1100mm x 400mm 300dpi)

09. Sun
Vector
(600mm x 400mm 300dpi)

08. Hike
Vector
(420mm x 300mm 300dpi)

07. Passport
Vector
(600mm x 300mm 300dpi)

06. Trek
Vector and Raster
(800mm x 300mm 300dpi)

05. Binoculars
Vector and Raster
(740mm x 400mm 300dpi)

04. Exotic
Vector
(500mm x 400mm 300dpi)

03. Boots
Vector
(1300 mm x 400mm 300dpi)

02. Discover
Vector and raster
(700 mm x 480mm 300dpi)

Inktober 2024
Changed the way the drawings are created this year!
Decided to 'sketch out' and revisit later rather than try to create complete drawings (Especially after last years miserable failure!😀)
1. Created a new collection of brushes to 'sketch and scribble' [Basic Inkers (dynamics not Nozzles, Grain Texture, Scribble, Monster Club Club ii and a Special Category called 'Ink Challenge')]
2. Make more use of Vector outlining and texture conversion (same techique as Poison II as I liked it!)
3. Create looser drawings (Sketch | redraw | Ink)
4. Collect the Colours and Vector Elements as resources
5. No need for new brush sets this time around
6. Irregular Sizes (No restrictions on size)
7. Speed up with greater use of new tools (Knife. Vector Flood Fill, Fill Holes, Warp, Brush Dynamics)

Used Inkscape for Vector Conversion with Single (Threshold:0.500 | Speckles [04 -20] | Smooth Corners 1.20 | Optimise:4)
Simple Copy and Paste From AD
01. Backpack
Vector and Raster
(440mm x 600mm 300dpi)

My goodness … these are fantastic! 😲

Sorry, I had to like them all. 😁