Sam256 Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 Stroke has one flat corner, and when expanded that corner becomes very weird. See screenshots... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam256 Posted March 17, 2021 Author Share Posted March 17, 2021 This is Affinity Designer 1.9.1 btw, on macOS Big Sur (Macbook Pro 2018 model) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Sean P Posted March 18, 2021 Staff Share Posted March 18, 2021 Hi Saaaaaaaaaam, Without the file you're using we're unable to look into it. Could you attach the file please? At a guess I would say you have more than one node on that corner however that is causing conflicts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam256 Posted March 18, 2021 Author Share Posted March 18, 2021 Sure, thanks Sean, I made a stripped down version just showing the two problematic lines. If there's a way I can fix this myself that would be great to know! (Also I have a new, less stressful username, phew!) Possible Stroke Bug.afdesign Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam256 Posted March 18, 2021 Author Share Posted March 18, 2021 (edited) So, I just pulled at that corner, and you're right there were two, connected nodes there! I i removed one, and all looks good (both the stroke and the expanded stroke). I am doing a lot of boolean operations with shapes, I suspect this double point was created erroneously by the divide operation? Anyway, I'm happy to have a way to fix this now, so thanks for your help. [EDIT: Just deleting one node was not enough, it skewed the shape slightly. I had to move one node out of the way, then delete the edge between them, then hold down a modifier key (I forget which one) to join the two nodes back at the correct place.] Edited March 18, 2021 by Sam256 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam256 Posted March 18, 2021 Author Share Posted March 18, 2021 One last thing... Is there a way to automatically clean up shapes like this that have points in the same place? And more generally to reduce the number of nodes without affecting the shape, e.g. "simplify"? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loukash Posted March 18, 2021 Share Posted March 18, 2021 11 hours ago, Sam256 said: I suspect this double point was created erroneously by the divide operation? Very likely. See also this thread: 11 hours ago, Sam256 said: Is there a way to automatically clean up shapes like this that have points in the same place? Not really. Although, if you select all nodes with the Node tool and click on the "Smooth Curves" action button in the context toolbar, sometimes it can get better. Other times it gets worse though… Quote MacBookAir 15": MacOS Ventura > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // MacBookPro 15" mid-2012: MacOS El Capitan > Affinity v1 / MacOS Catalina > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // iPad 8th: iPadOS 16 > Affinity v2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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