Designer 1.9: Contouring tool shapes, lines oh my! …any chance nodes might be next?

[Guest]

I'm just playing around with the various 1.9 applications (wow those app binary sizes are HUGE… ) and have been enjoying experimenting with the contour tool. It works nicely on shapes (although I'm not sure removing the original shape would be most folks expectations, but hey a quick 'copy' before contour is another workaround to burn into my brain), and I was pleasantly surprised to see how it works on lines. It creates the contour volume from the original path, and uses the original stroke as the stroke for the new shape - all while keeping the original line intact (I can go an edit nodes, reshape it, etc - NICE!).

Any chance the contour tool might one day be applied to individual nodes? I believe this would give us the ability to define stroke widths without requiring a specific 'stroke width' tool.

Anyway, kudos on the release and I look forward to seeing what else is new/improved.

[Dan C]

Hi @Bryan Rieger,

Thanks for your feedback, glad to hear you're enjoying the new tool

On 2/4/2021 at 3:00 PM, Bryan Rieger said:

Any chance the contour tool might one day be applied to individual nodes? I believe this would give us the ability to define stroke widths without requiring a specific 'stroke width' tool.

I don't believe there's any such plans currently, but we never say never! I'll get this moved to the feedback section for our devs to see and consider.