[resolved] Stroke Align: not responsive

[flobnoit]

Designer: 1.10.4.1198

Windows 10, Hardware Accel: On, Renderer: Nvidia GTX960, no additional hardware

Specialty printer/driver: Epilog laser

 

Problem: Stroke Align is not responsive in this version of Designer.

To recreate:

• Stroke order is set to "Draw stroke in front"
• Place colour stroke on an object 
• Stroke alignment defaults to "Align to Centre" 
• Change to align to Inside, or to outside

Outcome: stroke visually does not change alignment. Stays rendered as Centre.

Expected outcome: Stroke at given weight shifts to only render interior to, or exterior to the given curve

 

The previous version of Designer I was using (1.9.2) the stroke alignment changed, as per Expected Outcome above.

 

[walt.farrell]

What kind of object?

Are you sure it is a closed curve? Open curves do not have an outside or inside, and so they have only centered strokes.

A screenshot and/or sample file would help.

[flobnoit]

Hm, good catch Walt. 

The object was not closed; however previously I thought that these same objects (old file that I have to regularly open and re-print from for a recurring client) were responsive.

Closing the curve did create the expected behavior. Let me play with this some more and see if this resolves my printing issue that I was also writing up a bug report for. (Closed curve resolves the above issue, but not the printing issue)

Edited January 13, 2022 by flobnoit

[flobnoit]

For reference to Walt's request for screen shot: these are the same object, 1.5 stroke, set to align outside. However the lower object I selected the nodes and used "Close curve".