Rainer

Hello I am a technical writer and 99 percent of my use of illustration software is the processing of drawings/views exported from CAD for the use in instruction manuals. The major tasks are therefore the cleaning up of imported files, resizing, cropping and finally adding items numbers and lines* from the item numbers to the parts. For the cleaning up Adobe Illustrator has a feature that comes in very handy: I select a line with a certain thickness, then go to the selection menu and click on "select all objects with the same stroke weight". I cannot find a similar feature in Affinity Designer. It is missing or only well hidden? If it's missing is it on the road map of future features? Best regards Rainer * Thank you so much for adding "Outline" to the "Effects" menu. Now I can place a wider white line behind the black line without the need to handle two separate objects. This is the key feature that made me buy a Designer license yesterday!

Hi VIPStephan, I had selected the file, but did not notice the "Attach this File" button (sorry, this was my first post on this forum). Now the file should show up. I don't see a video, just a dozen+ of blank lines. Best regards Rainer sample.tiff

Dear Affinity Designer developers, as a technical writer over the past 25 years I have used illustration software to provide images with multiple stroke lines: thin black line with a dot at the end on top of a wider white line with a larger dot at the end (see attached file sample.tiff). This way the line and particularly its end are always easily visible, no matter what the image in the background looks like. With CorelDraw I never figured out how to select a node of the black line in the foreground and the node of the white line right behind it together, so creating this effect was always a pain, particularly when changes had to be applied. So once I started to work with AI I found the multiple stroke feature to be a real blessing (licensing and update policy not quite so). When I open an EPS from AI in AD, the white line, the black line, the white dot, and the black dot are all individual objects. Well, I expected that... I see that "Multiple Effects/Fills/Strokes per shape" is on the AD roadmap. Parametric "arrow tips", too? Adding these features would open a market of thousands of technical writers who yearn to replace AI. When will we see these features in AD? In the meantime: "brushes" seem to be very powerful (the rope, #196, is really cool!), much more than needed for the above mentioned effect. Can brushes be "abused" to create the multiple stroke line incl. the dot ends as a temporary workaround? What would I have to do to achieve that? (I don't find an instruction on how to create my own brushes). Regards Rainer