Ash Eldritch

@R C-R Thanks. Yes I'd noticed the lines were differing in width. Just I couldn't see their values when selected. Only took me 10 years to encounter this. lol

@NotMyFault I can see things like nudge distance modifiers in Tool Settings but nothing relating to showing 10ths of a decimal place etc. Can you tell me where I find this?

Hi, this has probably been answered elsewhere but after wading through several pages related to stroke width questions I've given up looking. With the current Hairline view bug, in Designer, I'm resorting to using Stroke widths, for guides, but there doesn't seem to be any way to finely tune them easily. Line widths are not something I use in my art so it's really the first time I've encountered this. If I type 0.01mm into the stroke width panel it Shows the width as 0mm. If I type 0.09mm It shows as 0.1mm. I can see the lines differ in width but why, if I select a stroke, am I unable to see its actual width? Is there something in settings to alter this? Any help appreciated.

Not sure if this is a bug, a change to the way things are done or me having inadvertently having pressed something that's altered the way things work? I used to be able to work in hairline mode then, using a keyboard shortcut, switch to wireframe and then, using the same shortcut, be returned to the hairline view. However if I now do the above, on the second shortcut the view mode is switched to normal view rather than returning to the previously selected Hairline mode. Any help appreciated.

Thanks both.

Due to MacOS's inability to keep screen sizing correct on startup I regularly find I'm having to resize app windows. On the whole this is pretty easily done with Magnet and a universal shortcut. Unfortunately with Designer, despite the main window resizing correctly, the studio is left as is. (This isn't the same in Photo... possibly because I've never changed the original layout) I thought I'd be able to overcome this with another Shortcut to select my Studio Preset. There doesn't seem to be a way to do this from within Designer? I've instead set one up using MacOS's inbuilt shortcut system. I know it works as I'm able to move it around, use the shortcut and have everything pop back into place. However there seems to be a big flaw... it doesn't work on startup. The Main window will resize, using the allocated Shortcut, but the Studio preset Shortcut won't work (I get the error boing chime) unless I click on the Window menu and hover over the Studio menu so the sub menu is revealed. After that the Shortcut will work but by that point it's pretty pointless as I may as well have gone the extra step and clicked the preset. It's as if the system needs to visually see what's there before it'll work. This could well be a flaw on Apple's side but thought I'd ask if anyone else has encountered similar or knows a way around this?

@PaulEC Ah right, Thank you. Now I know. Thinking about it after I realised it looked similar to the effect on google earth's street view.

@Bololoco I have an UHD monitor so was going to check but then see you've had lots of better informed people reply anyway. I am absolutely no photography expert but one things stands out to me and I'm not sure if this is deliberate, part of the process, or what, but just looking at the very first image it's as if it's corrupted or a jigsaw that's been misaligned? The most obvious examples splits are in the gate and fence and grass. The right door is split in the middle, the far left door also. The roof is segmented in various places either side of the attic window. Even the foremost corner of the building splits to the right of the hanging basket. There are others too but perhaps not so obvious. This is not a critique, more pointing out something that you're perhaps already aware but if not...

@William Overington Try asking Bing Chat AI "How do I reduce the number of posts needed to say something?" "So I can have one post instead of four?" "To take up less room on the forum's page?" "Could the Enter key be involved?"

@thomaso I can turn off the transparency background but then I get solid white which is even more glaring. 😅 I don't know of any way to alter the wireframe's background colour? I could, possibly, add another shortcut but I already use a little app called Karabiner Elements to add a glut of extra keyboard shortcuts and I'm not sure I have any unused keys left. 🤣 I do like your idea of the fly-out menu. That would certainly be useful.

@SteveJo Thanks but yes, that's a different situation. If you have that again you can (if you're using Mac) alt. click the item and it'll select the object beneath. Keep alt. clicking for objects further down.

@Ron P. Likewise. I can be so deft creating curves with it in AD I'm not sure I could switch to any other mouse now. @thomaso I think that's it. I just altered the width of the curve that was unintentionally being selected and no longer had the issue. In Hairline mode there isn't any visual indication that one curve might be infringing on another's selection area. Though, to be fair, in normal mode they're not exactly overlapping. That was a question I asked earlier but got no answer. In that image they're using X-ray Wireframe mode. That also has the chequered background until you start laying down areas of colour, which become semi-transparent and muted in the X-ray mode. The chequered background becomes less visible the more coloured layers that are overlapped. Since the process I'm doing is pre-colour I don't get that. Yes I could start every image by laying down 10 layers of colour but that'd be a pain. Perhaps I'd be willing to do that if there were was an X-ray mode toolbar icon, for quick access, but there isn't. Only Outline Wireframe mode has an icon. I have to dig down through several menus to access X-ray view mode.

@R C-R I'm actually using the Logitech MX Master 3S with that MagSpeed scroll wheel that zooms through billions of lines of text a millisecond. Great for getting through long websites and, when you forget the wheel's still spinning and inadvertently move your mouse over AD's workspace in the background, watching your AD artwork rapidly shrink till it disappears into the digital void. 🥴 I never use outlines in my work so I'm always using Hairline mode. So curve width isn't my issue. However I wonder, even though it can't be seen, if the curve width is playing a factor in the selection process in both normal and hairline view modes. 🤔 It's really just an issue due to my way of working. When I'm creating my art, because the subject matter is imagined and I don't have the luxury of reference photos to copy/trace, I work from my pen sketches. I then work out my light fall and shadows using guidelines. It looks almost like a topographical map. The line density helps me visualise form better. The downside being if I zoom in too far I'm no longer seeing the representation of form... hence I've created my own problem. 😂 I could work around this selection issue by switching to wireframe but the chequered background quickly becomes glaring and uncomfortable.

@thomaso Thanks for the idea. It was worth a try. Since it doesn't work the same in v2 I tried using divide instead of add but, whereas the curve remained, the issue still persisted.

@Return I'm sure using an entirely different application will make a difference. I've just opened it in Publisher and, like you, have no issues. Yet if I close it and open it back up in Designer I still have the same problem