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Running Affinity Designer 2 v 2.3.0 for windows. Just as the title says. Whenever I use the rounded rectangle tool, it sets the starting values of properties to something I don't want, and I can't change the default. Example: make rounded rectangle. Curvature is set to proportional 25%. I change it to absolute size, 150px. I click "synchronize defaults from selection" Now I make another rounded rectangle, which usually comes out the way I set it. Then I do something else elsewhere, like use the text tool or whatever, and when I go back and make another rounded rectangle, it comes out as proportional 25% and I have to manually change it. No amount of setting values and hitting "synchronize defaults" stops this from happening. And it's not even that it's taking the value from the last thing I selected or something, because I don't have any rounded rectangles with any other values. Everything is set to absolute 150px. But this means that if I'm using a lot of them (and I am) I have to manually change every single one, which is really tiresome. Also, the thing that it wants to set things too sometimes changes. For a while it was setting all new rounded rectangles to 100% curvature,. which is basically a circle. What am I meant to do to fix this? This is making a LOT of extra work for me.

Hello together, since some days everytime i draw a rectangle in desinger, eithe with the rectangle tool or with the roundet corners rectangle tool, a rectangle with roundet corners is drawn. I think I've made some settings that cause this behavior, but I don'T find out where. Can anybody help? Thank you in advance Rainer

If I start with either rectangle tool and then want to switch to the other, the original rectangle tool is still kept. I can only change to the other rectangle tool if I first select another shape tool, use it, and then select the rectangle tool I tried to switch to earlier. The accompanying rough recording I hope will help you see what is happening. RectangleTool.mp4

For some reason or other when I select the rounded corner rectangle it will only give me a square corner rectangle. I closed down ADV2 hoping that would correct it but after reopening AD the problem is still there.

I am using the latest version of Affinity Designer (2.2.0) on my Windows 10 desktop PC. Nodes changed with the Corner Tool display weird behavior when the distance between the nodes is 0.12 pt or smaller. This strangely only occurs in nodes that are on the right side of an object. I am able to consistently reproduce the artifact with new objects and in new documents. To demonstrate the issue I have created 4 squares of 2x2 pt with the Rectangle Tool. For each square I changed a different corner to rounded with a corner radius of 1 pt: File: Corner Tool Artifact.afdesign I then reduced the width of each object to 0.119 pt. For the blue and red objects, the corners remain rounded but simply reduce in size, as expected. For the yellow and green objects, the corners become squared when the distance between the node manipulated with the Corner Tool, and another node becomes less than 0.12 pt (which translates to 0.5 pixels). Note that the corner type is not set to None by AD, it remains Rounded, but does not appear as such in the document. To further show that it only occurs on nodes on the right of the object I horizontally flipped each object individually. As you can see the objects that had their rounded corners on the right now have them on the left and vice versa, but the rounded corners on the right side of the objects appear as squared corners: Things that I have tried that result in the same artifact of rounded corners appearing as a squared corners: Disabling hardware acceleration. Recreate the object in the same document and in a new document. Horizontally or vertically flipping the object. Rotating the object 180 degrees. If an object has rounded corners on the left side and is rotated 180 degrees, the rounded corners are now the right side. The corners still appear rounded after rotating, but the artifact reoccurs after resizing the object or dragging any node in the object. Likely other manipulations will also make the artifact reoccur, but I haven't tried. Undoing any actions will not make the corners round again (when the rounded corners are still on the right side of the object). Rotating the object 180 degrees and leaving it as is, is not a workaround. After saving and reopening the document the artifact reoccurs. Increasing and decreasing the corner radius.