AD, how do I remove a vector brush effect from a stroke

[kanihoncho]

Searched online and the help section. Nothing. How do I remove a stroked vector brush effect from a shape? The only way to do it seems to be reducing the stroke to zero or recreate the shape . . .

[walt.farrell]

In the Stroke panel, or the Stroke settings in the Context Toolbar, you should be able to change the type of stroke from textured brush to normal line.

[Rufus Goldenball]

Didn't work for me. I still cannot expand stroke. It seems the brush effect is stuck on my curve and won't expand even after switching it to a normal line. Any Tips?

[NotMyFault]

Can you upload a file containing a copy of that curve with the nasty brush?

[thomaso]

6 hours ago, Rufus Goldenball said:

It seems the brush effect is stuck on my curve and won't expand even after switching it to a normal line.

What if you select the curve with the Move Tool + assign from the Brushes Panel one of the two default Pens –> Solid Pen… ?

[Rufus Goldenball]

I'm not having any luck with a pen tool applied as the brush but here is a example I made.

untitled.afdesign

[walt.farrell]

18 minutes ago, Rufus Goldenball said:

I'm not having any luck with a pen tool applied as the brush

Not the Pen Tool, but a brush from the Pens category.

[R C-R]

11 hours ago, Rufus Goldenball said:

Didn't work for me. I still cannot expand stroke. It seems the brush effect is stuck on my curve and won't expand even after switching it to a normal line. Any Tips?

In the untitled afdesign file you uploaded, for the curve you could not get the pressure settings or expand stroke to work with, try first selecting it & click on Properties... on the Stroke panel (or from the context toolbar click on the stroke width item & from there the Properties... item). Then set the Size Variance property to 100%.

This should get the pressure setting to work as expected. Then reset the stroke Style to Solid Line (if it has been reset to Texture Line style) & expand stroke should work as expected.

So in brief, you must first set the size variance to 100% (or at least to >0%) & make sure the curve is set to use the Solid Line style.

[Rufus Goldenball]

Thanks for the tip, that helped and got it to where i can expand the stroke and essentially do what I wanted. It doesn't seem to work the same way as if you did it without selecting a brush first. If you apply your method to the bottom right image and set the stroke width to match the left image then overlay them, while similar they are very different looking so I'm guessing there are still some brush settings being applied to the stroke even though we have selected solid line style. It would be nice if there was a button to reset the brush/stroke settings all together since selecting solid line style doesn't revert it back.

[R C-R]

8 minutes ago, Rufus Goldenball said:

If you apply your method to the bottom right image and set the stroke width to match the left image then overlay them, while similar they are very different looking so I'm guessing there are still some brush settings being applied to the stroke even though we have selected solid line style.

I am not sure I know what you mean by that. Can you post an example Affinity format file showing that?

[Rufus Goldenball]

I hope this helps.     I guess the long and short of it is don't ever use a brush setting if you don't need to. Since there is no way to remove those effects, if you try to ever use pressure again or solid line style they will not function correctly. Also expand stroke will not work unless you mess with the variance in the brush settings which doesn't make much sense to me. 

untitled 2.afdesign

[R C-R]

I am not sure why, but in your second curve (the one labeled "Switched to a brush to make it look like the left") the Size variance property is set to 37% (was 0%) & the stroke width to 94 pt (was 50). After resetting it to 100% variance & setting it back to solid line style, the pressure curve worked fine for me.

Also, on the bottom row, the black shape is a single 2 node curve whereas the red one is the result of expanding the 50 pt line. If I expand the black one, its shape exactly matches that of the red one.