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Gear maker

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  1. Wow, I just checked and it's been 9 1/2 years since I bought AD and I have probably spent more than 4 hours a day using it. My wife would says it's more than 4. But even so there are some times that I see AD do something and I just have to cock my head and ask why did it do that. Then I spend an hour trying to figure it out. Today's oddity is so simple that it should be easy, but for the life of me I just can't figure out what is causing this. I have a line that I copied from a drawing that was a month old, so I don't remember exactly how it was created. It was originally drawn in the beta, but the issue shows up in the released version. Temp1.afdesign In the my drawing I needed a line that went out from the center of two 64 point stars. I found I already had one, so I copied it, adjusted one endpoint for the proper length and angle and grouped it with a small circle. Surprisingly the bounding box was way oversized. I copied the line then did a create new drawing from the clipboard and the new drawing was a correctly sized rectangle. I did a cmd G to give the line a bounding box and it came out over 3 times the height that it should be (237 px instead of 71.5 px). I used the transform rotation setting to make it a horizontal line. The line has 0 width, but the group now has 304 px height. Does anyone have any idea that would explain this? I would be very happy to just know why it happened. I could have just recreated the line in about 5 seconds, but I just can't stand to have an unsolved mystery.
  2. I just loaded AD Beta 2.3.0.2139. I then tried to open a recent drawing I started in AD Beta 2.3.0.2096. I get a message: I don't know if the error was in 2.3.0.2096 or is in 2.3.0.2139. I've tried it a few times. I get the same result. I tried the next few documents in the Open Recent. Same results on all. Including one from a Beta version before 2.3.0.2096. Run on a 27" Mac running Sonoma.
  3. Too late but thanks for the warning. It wasn't too bad fixing it and I can do it again if needed.
  4. Hi Sean, I am assuming you no longer need an export of my shortcuts. If that is not correct I will be glad to do that. Just let me know. Dang, I just finished a drawing that I had to manually create a few decaying spirals. If I had just waited a few weeks... I haven't done more than playing with it but it looks like the decaying spiral would have done exactly what I needed. I think I'm going to be using that a fair amount. Thank you for that and your help. Mike
  5. Hi Mike, this is Mike, I have already changed all the items that I found wrong. So I can't provide a screen shot. But Pen, Corner, Gradient, Brush, Contour & Transparency tools didn't have any shortcut. N was on the Cat Tool. P was on the Pencil Tool. Z was on the Color Picker and I was on Zoom. B was on something other than Brush, but I don't remember what. I found that in the released Designer shortcuts there are 5 entries for Emoji & Symbols in the Edit section (4 are duplicates), there are none such in the Beta. Possibly when these were being removed it jumbled the rest. I also found that Show Pixel Grid is a new entry to Shortcuts (and the View menu), maybe that addition caused the jumble. I didn't try the defaults. I wanted to actually see the differences so I compared the released and the Beta. And I know I was keeping them the same. Thanks for the input.
  6. I have also found that many of the shortcuts for tools in Settings are missing. Like hitting a P, I get a Pencil, not a Pen. Pressing a C, G or Y does nothing. An A, V or T still works.
  7. I just installed AD 2.3.0 (2096) and many of my personnel settings from the last version are gone. This is on a 27" 2018 mac running Sonoma. My tools were changed back to what I thought was the default, but it's not. It's just different. From To View > Show Pixel Grid had been off and now it's on. View > Show Bleed had been off and now it's on. I had a Snapping preset, but don't any longer. The left and right studios were NOT changed. It looks like everything in Settings have NOT been changed. My Toolbar looks to be okay. That's what I have found so far.
  8. Well I'd just like to say "Thank You" for creating the Draw Effects. It's something I have really wanted for years. I have made a shortcut of Shift Command E that toggles this on and off. I expect to use this frequently. Kudos to whomever added this!
  9. In the attached file all nodes are sharp nodes. Using the node tool, if I select layers 1 and 4, then using the mouse select either the two right nodes or the two left nodes. Then click Join Curves in the context toolbar. The path joining the nodes is a curved line way off the image. But then if the other two nodes are selected and a Join Curves is implemented the path is a short straight line. No matter which two are selected the first set do not join properly for a set of sharp nodes, but the second pair do connect properly. I have seen this in several drawing lately. This is being done on a 2018 27" iMac running Sonoma using either 2.2.0 AD or 2.2.1 (2075) AD beta. test 3.afdesign Screen Recording 2023-10-14 at 7.56.18 AM.mov
  10. Hi Walt. Oh so the difference is really with the selection of an object from the canvas, not by selection in the Layer's panel. I never tested that idea. Thank you. Mike
  11. Hi Miguel, I had played with groups and layers a few times over the last several years and every time I come up with the answer that they are the same. After reading your explanation I again tried. I created a test file (attached). And no matter what I do I can't see any difference when dealing with the layer or the group. I selected a Layer by clicking once on a random object in the Layer and tried transforming, moving, color change, etc. then I did the same in an object in the group, exactly the same result. Only the selected object was affected. I selected the entire group by clicking once in the group and did the same actions and they were all affected. I did the same selection in a Layer and again they were all affected. I've never had to ungroup to get anything done. All I can think of is that it's probably something to do with my advanced age that is stopping me from understanding what you are trying to point out. But thank you for your help. Test 1.afdesign FYI this was created in the beta seeing as I have been using it most of the time. Mike Fels
  12. I keep all data on an external HD. I didn't try it a second time. I restarted it again, but used a different spiral file. The only reason I turned this in is that is what the message in AD asked me to do. Personally I was curious, but not too worried about the problem. But thanks for checking it out Hangman.
  13. I'm not sure what happened, but there is a message saying I should report this to the development team. So here it is. I had a couple circles, saved them as a starting point for my drawing. I then grabbed an svg file of a spiral created using Inkscape. This file was dragged and dropped into the existing drawing. I grouped them, then hit save and received a failed to save message. I have used spirals created in Inkscape a couple times in the past without a problem. AD Beta 2.2.0, 2018 Mac running Ventura. Inkscape file: Spiral 14.svg
  14. AD beta version 2.2.0 run on a 2018 27" Mac running Ventura 13.5. I haven't noticed this in any old betas. And I can't reproduce it in the released version. But in 2.2.0 I opened the beta, went to File>New and created a document 40" by 40". I then went to Document Setup and changed the width to 44". When I clicked OK the canvas jumped but still showed as 40" wide. I've done this several times during this test and it always comes out the same. I've also done this after creating some shapes. This is the create screen. I have margins turned off. Changed the width to 44" using Document Setup. After the change to 44" width the canvas is still showing 40" wide. As soon as I change the zoom AD fixes itself by applying the change. I did it again creating a document 10" by 10". Then went into Document Setup and changed the width to 14". The canvas showed a split as being two canvases, one 10" wide then a 1-3/4" gutter and a second canvas 2-1/4" wide. Again a zoom change will force AD to fix itself.
  15. Hi Dan, I'm using the Color Studio Fill option shown below. Thanks. Mike
  16. AD version 2.1.1 on a 2018 27" mac running Ventura. I used about a 70% noise to produce a texture on the surface of much of my drawing. I then used AD to export the drawing to a jpg with a 26% reduction in size. The resulting noise looks terrible. It looks like the individual dots making up the noise did not get reduced. I then used AD to export the drawing at 100% size, and did a 26% size reduction in Preview. The noise looks fine, as it did in the original AD drawing. I tried doing the export from AD with 26% reduction to a png and the result was the same as to a jpg. Exported from AD 100%, then reduced to 26% in Preview Exported with the 26% reduction being done in AD
  17. I had found that if I selected the crosshairs object also than the Origin worked correctly. Except that I didn't want them rotated. FYI in version 1 and 2 (2.0.4) this jump does not occur. It's only in the beta. With the two Ellipses grouped it does work. But it shows another oddity, if the two ellipses are made not visible inside the group then the Origin disappears. Though if the group is made invisible the Origin remains visible. But I see that that has been the case in version 1 and 2.
  18. Thank you. I missed that setting. Looks like it loaded with UI Contrast set to high.
  19. I have seen some issues with the Transform origin that were cured in AD 1724. I am running AD 1790 on a mac 27" 2020 with Ventura. I find that if I select one layer I can accurately position the origin. But if I select more than one layer the origin does not remain where it is dropped. It ends up jumping down and to the left of the drop point. Attached is a video and the test AD file. TransformOrigin3.mov Temp 1.afdesign
  20. I'm not finding this as a reported bug. In version 2 beta 1790 of AD the Profile and Direction are not visible. In the Version 2 it's very light but visible. In version 1 it was very visible. I'm not finding any settings that seem to affect this issue. I'm running AD beta 1790 on a 27" 2020 5K mac running Ventura.
  21. Thomaso, the first couple things are some of what I have tried. And they usually are more labor intensive than just not using the transform origin in the first place. With the exception of doing a power duplicate. I try to have it where that is my only use of the origin, seeing as it's not really replaceable there. I tried the colorizing and the origin stayed blue but I had tried using the preselected tab colors listed at the bottom of the right click menu. So it never worked. I just tried clicking on the Properties to change the color and sure enough the origin changed. And the color of the bounding box, paths and nodes. Yahoo that is a great one to remember. I always thought the preset color tabs should do that. Thanks for the info.
  22. But it's so small. on a 27" screen it's only about 0.08" in diameter. Thanks for the suggestion. I'll give it a try.
  23. Why didn't I think of that. It only makes sense. I shall give that a try next time. Thank you.
  24. Does anyone know any tricks on using the Transform Origin? On a busy drawing or one with a lot of blue it is lost. I can usually find it when it is in the center, but after it's been moved I frequently have to give up using it because I just can't find it. Is there maybe a keystroke that will place it back in the center of the object? According to Help the symbol can be double clicked to do this, but if the problem is it can't be found then that's useless. Or maybe to auto pan to center the icon in the middle of the screen? Almost anything would be helpful. I find it can be a useful tool, but I don't use it much because of the lost time searching for it. I use it mostly in Designer, but have had the same problem in Photo. Thanks for any input.
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