Supcat

Oh, you're in luck, the resulting weird geometry can be saved. But I need to assure the moderators that this group *should have* looked just like the image on the left in the above post. A circular text path, distorted with "false perspective".

Incidentally, things get really weird if you do a warp group on text on a path, too. The workaround here was to convert to curves before applying the warp.

I would love it if it snapped. Especially for warping text it's important to keep the verticals vertical, and this would really come in handy.

+1 to a simple "copy selected nodes only" menu option, if not just defaulting to that behavior when the node tool and one or more nodes are selected. That's a big classic Illustrator behavior that has a lot of utility and saves a lot of time versus the workarounds. That being said, that drag-and-wait feature is kinda neat, I'll definitely try and find an opportunity to use it.

This still happens in 2.0, for reference. Not sure what it is about the geometry that causes it, but I did find that there's a workaround if you use "Merge Curves" on both lines before expanding the stroke. I'll often run into this when expanding complicated strokes, but in the attached file in the initial post I've pared it down to just five points worth of data. Hopefully with access to this file you can figure out why it's crashing.

Somehow I have these two paths with a certain kind of stroke or appearance, that if you select them simultaneously, it will crash Affinity Designer. Expanding stroke individually works fine! Expand Stroke On both curves together and it will crash Affinity Designer.afdesign