Incomplete Stroke around Vector shape

[JPipe]

Hey everyone,

If anyone knows why this is happening I'd love to know. I recently realized that I could take the standard stroke around an object, from the standard uniform line width, and replace it with one of the vector brushes that I have at my disposal. The only issue is that when I do this, there are very often gaps in the stroke. You can see this in the images I've attached below. This is not an issue of needing to join 2 strokes. Rather this is an issue where the stroke on a vector shape has a gap for some reason. I have changed a few settings in the stroke palette, as well as tweaked some of the settings in the stroke properties dialogue box, but nothing seems to work. I feel like whatever is going on has to be something super simple that I'm just unaware of?

Any help is appreciated!

Thanks!

[Alfred]

Try breaking the curve at the affected node.

[JPipe]

4 minutes ago, Alfred said:

Try breaking the curve at the affected node.

I'm not sure I know what you mean. Like delete that node? If that's what you mean, this is what happens.

[Alfred]

No, I don’t mean ‘Delete’, I mean ‘Break Curve’.

Affinity Designer Help: Edit vector curves and shapes

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• Select the node at the point at which you want the curve to break and click Break Curve on the context toolbar.

 

[JPipe]

5 minutes ago, Alfred said:

No, I don’t mean ‘Delete’, I mean ‘Break Curve’.

Affinity Designer Help: Edit vector curves and shapes

 

Ah, my bad. I hadn't ever used that before. Break Curve does kinda work at first glance. However it changes the look of the line (which I can readjust) but also doesn't really solve the issue as much as it masks it. Adding an anchor point does mask the issue but as you can see, once I adjust the placement of the 2nd node the issue is still there.

 

[Alfred]

39 minutes ago, JPipe said:

doesn't really solve the issue as much as it masks it

I don’t disagree! However, I think it’s the best we can do.

[JPipe]

On 2/18/2021 at 5:23 PM, Alfred said:

I don’t disagree! However, I think it’s the best we can do.

Hmm. Well hopefully that gets fixed at some point. 😕

[WerthIt]

Was there ever a solution to this? Having same issue!

[NotMyFault]

This happens at start / end nodes of curves, and is Probably by design as the brushes used in the example have non-basic start and end. You would need to create a copy of the brush and ensure hard edges left and right, to use only the brush pattern on top/down edges.

It is similar to using pen tool and start / end arrows. These intentionally deviate from smooth overlap.

 

PS: 

Simply adjust the head and tail offset of your copy, this solves the issue immediately. Then assign you modified brush as stroke.