jackamus

Was this for the iPad version? I don't use an iPad.

I concur Paul. Its been some time since there has been an AD update and I have given up on making suggestions. I mainly use DP8 for adding dimensions and scaling drawings.

I think the problem for me was the marching ants were coincident with a selected line and I thought it was the line that was affected and not that it was actually a very thin rectangle! Had I noticed it was a rectangle then I think I would have realized it was a selection.

Can someone remind me how to get rid of 'Marching ants' please? And also how I must have done it in the first place plus what are they for?

Good advice - it did the trick and now I can use pressure to vary thickness. Plastic tube.afdesign

I have another problem that has come out of my brush experiments. In the attached file 'A' is a freehand drawn stroke. 'B' is a stroke that was cut from an irregular shape. You will see that I can apply a pressure to 'A' but not to 'B'. Why is this? Pressure problem.afdesign

Alfred. Is there a way of finding the file that generated a particular brush? I need to back track and see what I have done.

Hi Alfred, Success! I have attached a file showing how I used the transparency effect in a custom brush. There have been times when I wanted to 'Feather' the edge of an irregular shape. Using the transparency tool only give you 4 choices of Type and I needed away to create an irregular Type. transparent example.afdesign

Thanks Alfred I'll give it a go.

Here is an example I did in DP8 Custom brush.afdesign

In DP8 it was possible to create a brush that could be used to draw a pipe with lots of bends or like a piece of wire. Attached is a file of what the paint brush would look like. Can I do the same thing with AD? Custom brush.afdesign

Hi All, I'm sorry but I think I have been leading you all up blind alley! I went back to my original problem which was a rounded corner QS. I then tried out my adding an 'invisible' shape to restore it back to a non-curve shape. In doing this I lost the red radius adjustment node. It was this node that I wanted to restore to make it easy to edit all 4 corners at the same time. Sorry to mess you all about.

My point was that by adding an invisible object to a shape that had been converted to a curve then it automatically becomes a non-curved combined shape. It may be that technically the new combined shape is not the same as a Quick shape.

Next time I do one I'll check that out.

Attached is a file showing what I mean. A = Two quick shapes B = Rectangle changed to curves and modified and then combined with the circle. The result is a non-curved shape. C = The combined shape converted into curves. Combined shapes.afdesign

That's OK MEB. When I combine quick shapes (Boolean operation?), which may have been changed into curves, they then become a non-curved object which can be changed back into curved objects. Do you need an example?

If I added an invisible object and combined them wouldn't this make it into non-curve object?

Can I converted a round corner rectangle back into a quick shape after converting it into a curve?

OK so simply converting from DPcode into the AD code is not feasible. What is wrong with separately developing the same DP features for AD? You have already done that most of the AD features . Thesmissing DP features are very useful!

Can you understand this?

Thanks for that and I'm glad you understood the question. However that is basically what I'm doing at the moment. I draw the circle at its correct size and then move two guides to touch either side of the circle. I then resize the whole group until the grouped circle fits between the guides.

I did just try it and although it locks the group layer I cannot move the group which I would need to. So back to the drawing board!

Actually this sound right. I could lock the group layer withing a larger set of groups. Without trying it I think this would solve my problem.

Understood. This could be a good feature to add to the features list! There is another issue associated with this that I often have to deal with. Lets assume I have a serious of grouped objects which I later resize as a whole group (enlarge). I then make some changes to some of the objects and then want to resize (reduce) back to a size where one of the objects (a circle) needs to go back to its original size. Selecting the Infinity' symbol in the Transformation tab is a very good way proportionally reduce the whole group but I want to re-proportion the whole group back to the original size of the circle object. I would call this resizing 'Conditional resizing according to one object or one group'. This sounds really complicated so if you do not understand it I'm sure you will let me know.

Of course! I tend to think of those as 'Adding' and 'Subtracting' shapes.