Tokamak Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 I'm using Affinity Designer in Windows. Is there a way to have it remember my pen settings from shape to shape? To make sure I'm clear, here is my workflow at present. I want to make a number of shapes with the pen tool. Each should have white fill and no stroke. I select the pen tool, draw some points, and hit escape to finish. Designer default to no fill and no stroke Then I go to the "fill" option in the upper left corner of the screen, select white fill. I use the pen tool to draw more points of a new shape. Designer defaults back to no fill, no stroke, the moment I start a new shape, so after finishing that shape and hitting escape, I have to go back up and select white fill. Rinse, repeat. I haven't found any way to set white fill (or anything else) and have it stay as my default. Any time I make a new shape it reverts back to no fill, no stroke. Is there something I'm missing, or is this just a limitation of the software? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David in Яuislip Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 Yep. In Photo I would draw a simple shape, set fill to white, stroke colour, width, other options as required then Edit/ Defaults/ Sychronise from Selection - this will maintain those parameters for the session Or to make them permanent Edit/ Defaults/ Save - for all future work It's similar for Designer as described here https://affinity.help/designer/English.lproj/index.html Quote Microsoft Windows 11 Home, Intel i7-1360P 2.20 GHz, 32 GB RAM, 1TB SSD, Intel Iris Xe Affinity Photo - 24/05/20, Affinity Publisher - 06/12/20, KTM Superduke - 27/09/10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 4 hours ago, David in Яuislip said: as described here https://affinity.help/designer/English.lproj/index.html Or rather, here: https://affinity.help/designer/English.lproj/pages/ObjectControl/objectDefaults.html David in Яuislip and towelhead 1 1 Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David in Яuislip Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 8 minutes ago, Alfred said: Or rather, here: https://affinity.help/designer/English.lproj/pages/ObjectControl/objectDefaults.html Good spot Alfred 1 Quote Microsoft Windows 11 Home, Intel i7-1360P 2.20 GHz, 32 GB RAM, 1TB SSD, Intel Iris Xe Affinity Photo - 24/05/20, Affinity Publisher - 06/12/20, KTM Superduke - 27/09/10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 24 minutes ago, David in Яuislip said: Good spot David in Яuislip and stokerg 2 Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David in Яuislip Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 6 minutes ago, Alfred said: Stop it 🙂 Alfred 1 Quote Microsoft Windows 11 Home, Intel i7-1360P 2.20 GHz, 32 GB RAM, 1TB SSD, Intel Iris Xe Affinity Photo - 24/05/20, Affinity Publisher - 06/12/20, KTM Superduke - 27/09/10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 1 hour ago, David in Яuislip said: Stop it 🙂 Are you trying to muzzle @Alfred? Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David in Яuislip Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 7 minutes ago, R C-R said: Are you trying to muzzle @Alfred? I don't think there is much chance of that How do you do those blue boxes???? Quote Microsoft Windows 11 Home, Intel i7-1360P 2.20 GHz, 32 GB RAM, 1TB SSD, Intel Iris Xe Affinity Photo - 24/05/20, Affinity Publisher - 06/12/20, KTM Superduke - 27/09/10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 Just now, David in Яuislip said: How do you do those blue boxes???? Type an amphora (or asperand, or ampersat, if you prefer) followed by the first few letters of a username to see a dropdown list, and then click or tap on the one you want. For example, typing david i currently results in my being offered a choice between ‘David in Яuislip’ and two others. David in Яuislip 1 Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David in Яuislip Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 @Alfred Hey hey, thanks for that Alfred 1 Quote Microsoft Windows 11 Home, Intel i7-1360P 2.20 GHz, 32 GB RAM, 1TB SSD, Intel Iris Xe Affinity Photo - 24/05/20, Affinity Publisher - 06/12/20, KTM Superduke - 27/09/10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tokamak Posted August 23, 2020 Author Share Posted August 23, 2020 21 hours ago, David in Яuislip said: Yep. In Photo I would draw a simple shape, set fill to white, stroke colour, width, other options as required then Edit/ Defaults/ Sychronise from Selection - this will maintain those parameters for the session Or to make them permanent Edit/ Defaults/ Save - for all future work It's similar for Designer as described here https://affinity.help/designer/English.lproj/index.html Thank you so much! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tokamak Posted August 27, 2020 Author Share Posted August 27, 2020 Sorry it took me so long to get back. That does not seem to have the desirable effect. I have: * made a shape with the pen tool * set the fill and stroke settings I want * kept that shape selected with the pen tool active * gone to Edit->Defaults->Synchronize From Selection Then when I start a new shape with the pen tool, it reverts back to no fill, no stroke, just like it always has. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David in Яuislip Posted August 27, 2020 Share Posted August 27, 2020 7 hours ago, Tokamak said: That does not seem to have the desirable effect. I have: Weird. I have just done this again. The stroke colour and width are remembered but, on creating the second node, the colour swatch changes to white with diagonal red, ie no fill Aha, there is another option on the right, I don't remember this before 1.8.5 Quote Microsoft Windows 11 Home, Intel i7-1360P 2.20 GHz, 32 GB RAM, 1TB SSD, Intel Iris Xe Affinity Photo - 24/05/20, Affinity Publisher - 06/12/20, KTM Superduke - 27/09/10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted August 27, 2020 Share Posted August 27, 2020 2 minutes ago, David in Яuislip said: Aha, there is another option on the right, I don't remember this before 1.8.5 Which particular option don’t you remember having seen before? Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David in Яuislip Posted August 27, 2020 Share Posted August 27, 2020 1 minute ago, Alfred said: Which particular option don’t you remember having seen before? The Use Fill checkbox Quote Microsoft Windows 11 Home, Intel i7-1360P 2.20 GHz, 32 GB RAM, 1TB SSD, Intel Iris Xe Affinity Photo - 24/05/20, Affinity Publisher - 06/12/20, KTM Superduke - 27/09/10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted August 27, 2020 Share Posted August 27, 2020 3 minutes ago, David in Яuislip said: The Use Fill checkbox Thanks, David. I wondered whether that was the one! That option simply causes the fill to be applied as you draw, which is especially useful if the curve has no stroke. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tokamak Posted August 28, 2020 Author Share Posted August 28, 2020 21 hours ago, David in Яuislip said: Weird. I have just done this again. The stroke colour and width are remembered but, on creating the second node, the colour swatch changes to white with diagonal red, ie no fill Aha, there is another option on the right, I don't remember this before 1.8.5 Hmm... so far that seems to be doing the trick, as far as I can tell. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tokamak Posted September 2, 2020 Author Share Posted September 2, 2020 Now it's doing it again. Even when I get the pen settings the way I want them, and use Edit -> Defaults -> Synchronize from Selection, the pen tool keeps reverting back to no stroke no fill. The weirdest part about it is that if I watch the stroke/fill settings UI element, they stay the way I set them when I start to use the pen, and it's only when I make the second point of the pen object that the settings revert back. So right now I'm finding that trying to keep my stroke/fill settings from resetting is working some times and not others, and I cannot figure out what I could possibly be doing differently. The last time it switched from behaving as expected to resetting every time I had the pen tool selected, and was making closed shapes. I made 2 or 3 before, without me changing anything about what I was doing, the settings started reverting with every new object. I'm kind of tearing my hair out here. Aleksandar Kovač 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aleksandar Kovač Posted December 11, 2020 Share Posted December 11, 2020 Exactly the same problem here but manifested in Designer persona in AP while AD seems unaffected. Lament: Why oh why this granular chaos? I love Affinity like an old, very smart, slightly unreliable friend, but come on, friend. Brush your teeth, comb your hair, take a good shower, clean up your act... Increasingly I find myself creating demanding vectors for illustration in Rhinoceros 3D and finishing them in Designer. There. I came out. Effortless view handling, reliability, precision, command line, procedural creation... Quote Alex Mac Mini M1, mac OS Ventura Affiñititos, how about a roadmap? (but with v2.1 efforts ... massive, tremendous improvement!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aleksandar Kovač Posted December 11, 2020 Share Posted December 11, 2020 Spoke too soon. Started getting the same issue in AD. On Mac. Quote Alex Mac Mini M1, mac OS Ventura Affiñititos, how about a roadmap? (but with v2.1 efforts ... massive, tremendous improvement!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomasmoulson Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 I’m having this exact same problem - seems silly, it should be default if anything that it uses your last preference of stroke size etc, not the other way round and keep reverting to default.. anyhow, synchronise defaults from selection is not working for me.. I want a certain brush stroke and a certain width but each new pencil stroke is reverting to default.. unusable! DesignerMim by Miriam 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aleksandar Kovač Posted February 16, 2022 Share Posted February 16, 2022 Yes, still like this. Quote Alex Mac Mini M1, mac OS Ventura Affiñititos, how about a roadmap? (but with v2.1 efforts ... massive, tremendous improvement!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobwal Posted August 30, 2023 Share Posted August 30, 2023 Did anyone ever figure this out? I'm experiencing it now, pretty frustrating. I set the fill and stroke then draw two points and my fill and stroke changes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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