How to create even spacing when using dotted lines?

[leegotmilk]

Hello! I am trying to make a sewing pattern using Affinity Designer on Desktop. I pretty much got everything else in the pattern figured out, but when it comes to this very important step of getting the dotted lines to appear in a calculated and evenly spaced way, I can't seem to find a good way to accomplish it. I have included two pictures for reference. Do you see how the spacing of the dotted lines aren't even? If I was to punch the holes the pattern suggests, it wouldn't look very nice. The only way I know how to accomplish this now is to drop in circles by hand which is very time consuming. 

The second picture shows the settings of the dotted lines. I messed with these settings and still can't get it to do what I want it to do. I tried with scale with object on and off, messed with the four boxes for dot length and gap length, I tried having the alignment all 3 choices. I am officially out of ideas. Anyone know how this could be done?

Thank you!

 

 

[firstdefence]

Welcome to the forum @leegotmilk

There are quite a few posts on the failings of the dashed line function. 

Do you know about the power duplicate function, the keyboard shortcut for Power Duplicate is, CMD (⌘) + J on Mac, Ctrl + J On Windows) using this method you can replicate a shape quickly including any transforming you have done immediately after the first duplication such as to move the duplicate.
https://affinity.help/designer/English.lproj/pages/ObjectControl/duplicate.html

When you have enough duplicated shapes you can adjust the last one to position on a corner, then select all shapes and use the distribute function to evenly distribute the shapes between.

 

[carl123]

4 hours ago, leegotmilk said:

but when it comes to this very important step of getting the dotted lines to appear in a calculated and evenly spaced way, I can't seem to find a good way to accomplish it

I think this has been raised before and I don't think there was a simple solution

You may find it easier to create 4 separate lines and use the text-on-a-path function to add the dash character (a hyphen) and spacing required. Then just copy and paste both to fill the line length.

The important part is to set the text to Justify All in the context toolbar

Once you've done one horizontal & vertical line you can just copy and move these to create the other sides of the rectangle

Copy to assets to build up a collection of easy to reuse dashed line

Example attached

 

dashed lines.afdesign