Greyfox Posted June 4, 2021 Share Posted June 4, 2021 Is there any way of constraining the Vector Brush tool so the brush stroke is a straight line (similar to holding down the shift key when using the pen tool)?. I can obviously delete intermediate nodes after using the brush, but that seems a bit clunky. Quote Intel i7-10700 Gen10 CPU, 32GB RAM, Geforce GTX 1660 OC 6GB Windows 10 Pro 22H2, 1x 1TB M.2 NVMe, 1 x 2TB M.2 NVMe. Affinity APh, APu, ADe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted June 4, 2021 Share Posted June 4, 2021 Have you tried clicking with the brush at the starting point, and Shift+clicking at the end point? Or (for horizontal or vertical) starting the stroke then pressing Shift? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greyfox Posted June 4, 2021 Author Share Posted June 4, 2021 2 hours ago, walt.farrell said: Have you tried clicking with the brush at the starting point, and Shift+clicking at the end point? Or (for horizontal or vertical) starting the stroke then pressing Shift? Yes, both, and neither constrain the stroke. I'm using the current Windows version, maybe it is different on a Mac. Quote Intel i7-10700 Gen10 CPU, 32GB RAM, Geforce GTX 1660 OC 6GB Windows 10 Pro 22H2, 1x 1TB M.2 NVMe, 1 x 2TB M.2 NVMe. Affinity APh, APu, ADe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted June 4, 2021 Share Posted June 4, 2021 26 minutes ago, Greyfox said: Yes, both, and neither constrain the stroke. I'm using the current Windows version, maybe it is different on a Mac. As you can see from my sig, I'm on Windows, too. But you're right; I can see that it doesn't work, now that I'm back at my computer. Sorry, bad remembering, I guess. You can, of course, use the Pen Tool to create a straight line, then use the Stroke panel, select the Textured Stroke option, and pick the brush you want to use. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greyfox Posted June 4, 2021 Author Share Posted June 4, 2021 1 minute ago, walt.farrell said: As you can see from my sig, I'm on Windows, too. But you're right; I can see that it doesn't work, now that I'm back at my computer. Sorry, bad remembering, I guess. Thanks for confirming. So unless there is some other way, I guess my question should now be "is there meant to be a way to constrain the brush stroke?", or perhaps "is it a function that has not ever been in Designer and needs to be the subject an improvement request, or was it present at some stage but no longer works, in which case maybe a bug report?" Quote Intel i7-10700 Gen10 CPU, 32GB RAM, Geforce GTX 1660 OC 6GB Windows 10 Pro 22H2, 1x 1TB M.2 NVMe, 1 x 2TB M.2 NVMe. Affinity APh, APu, ADe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Lee D Posted June 8, 2021 Staff Share Posted June 8, 2021 On 6/4/2021 at 3:21 PM, Greyfox said: Thanks for confirming. So unless there is some other way, I guess my question should now be "is there meant to be a way to constrain the brush stroke?", or perhaps "is it a function that has not ever been in Designer and needs to be the subject an improvement request, or was it present at some stage but no longer works, in which case maybe a bug report?" Hi @Greyfox The Vector Brush doesn't have the same option as the Pixel brush to create a straight line. This is logged as an improvement request for Designer, however I can't say if/when it'll be added. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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