Is there a way to expand stroke on vector brushes?

[Sponix]

Is there a way to expand stroke on vector brushes? It won't let me. Is there a way how to do it that someone knows... Or any workarounds? Thanks.

[Guest]

Unfortunately 'vector brushes' in Affinity aren't like vector brushes as might know them elsewhere. Aside from the simplest pens which are vector and will expand stroke as expected, all other 'vector brushes' are actually bitmaps applied to paths. You can edit the nodes and handles of the path using these brushes, but the actual shapes rendered are bitmap and therefore will not convert to vector outlines.

Hopefully we one day see real vector brushes in Affinity, or even an 'error' message displayed when you attempt to expand the stroke (the option is still available with bitmap brushes applied) of lines using vector brushes informing the user that it's not possible. As it stands now it simply fails silently leaving folks wondering what actually happened, and what they're doing wrong.

[R C-R]

23 minutes ago, Bryan Rieger said:

... or even an 'error' message displayed when you attempt to expand the stroke (the option is still available with bitmap brushes applied)...

Instead of an error message, for now that option should just be greyed out so it can't be selected.