Dashed Lines

[MaxClass]

I started this thread because a search for “Dashed Lines” turned up  nothing.

 

I am having excellent results making working drawings so far. What I can not seem to find is how to turn a “Line” into a “Dashed Line” and being able to set the length of the segments and the space in-between them. For drawing with hidden lines this is a must.

 

I know I can create the effect using individual segments but I also know that Core Graphics has built in routines for doing exactly this.

 

Max

AD Ver 1.0.18771

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[MEB]

Hi Max,

They aren't using Core Graphics as the engine for Affinity Designer. Dashed lines were already requested and are coming.

[MaxClass]

Thanks MEB,

 

That explains why I could not find them. I do a lot of technical drawings and need to show “hidden lines”, hence the reason for the question.

 

Max

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[MattP]

Behind the scenes, dashed lines are mainly in and working - just not ready yet so won't be in the initial release. We have to focus on things in a certain order.

[MaxClass]

MattP,

 

Understood. Critical path and all that. Because of my assumption that you might have been using Core Graphics when you are not.

 

Still amazed every time I use AD. Keep up the great work.

 

Max

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[MattP]

I think that if we'd been using Core Graphics we might've released a year or more ago! However, we'd be limited by it going forwards and could never adopt anything else as our rendering would change and documents would no longer draw in a consistent manner. We invested all our time and resources into the core technology to make a solid product that will be extensible and last for at least 10 years. 'Good enough' isn't good enough if you have grand plans! :)

[MaxClass]

MattP,

 

Only ten years? Illustrator came out in 1987. That is twenty seven years ago.

 

You could easily have another 30 years with a head start because what you have now is easily ten years or more ahead of where Illustrator was when it started. I was at Mac World expo in 1987 watching them demo version 1.0. You are already way ahead of that. Amazingly Illustrator was actually using the first showing of “Display PostScript” instead of QuickDraw back then.

 

Hopefully you will be around equally as long. Never sell yourself short.

 

Max

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[rebeccaturnerdesign]

Has this feature been added yet? Does anyone have a cheat way of doing it? Maybe a pattern brush?

[MattP]

Hi,

 

If you wanted to try out the beta version then you'll find dashed lines in and working :)

 

Thanks,

Matt

[allieh84@hotmail.com]

Thanks for the thread, I also bought the program and love it so for. This was actually one of the 1st hiccups I ran across. I've seen a tutorial on youtube on how this is supposed to work and it I'm excited! Thanks for the link for the BETA i'm already all over it! Keep up the good AMAZING work!