How to determine the right brush?

[DarkClown]

I'm aware that a path can't be used for the "Expand Stroke" command, when a pixel brush is assigned to it.
But how do I figure out what brush is purely vectorial or has pixels involved? (Frankly spoken I thought that in ADesigner only vectorial brushes are offered). But seeing that hardly any of these brushes can be used with the "Expand Stroke" command I assume that many of these brushes have pixels involed in the design as well ... But which one is now 100% vectorial?

 

In this list of brushes "pens" (they all look vectorial to me) - only the first two can be used to expand a stroke. And this is a trial and error game since I don't see any indication what brush can or can't be used.

Having said that and assuming that all shown brushes effectively were vector brushes I ask myself: Why do only very few of them allow expanding the stroke - most of them fail when trying to do so?

Any help appreciated.
Cheers Timo

[NotMyFault]

In principle, only one brush, the basic round brush, and any pressure profiles and/or start / end patterns applied, can be used for expand stroke.

 

 

[DarkClown]

3 minutes ago, NotMyFault said:

In principle, only one brush, the basic round brush, and any pressure profiles and/or start / end patterns applied, can be used for expand stroke.

 

 

Thx! How did you figure that out? Tried them all?

Frankly spoken I do see room for significant improvements here ....
 

[R C-R]

4 minutes ago, DarkClown said:

Frankly spoken I do see room for significant improvements here ....

So do a very large number of other AD users, going back almost to the first day the first Mac version was released. IOW, there are no 'real' vector brushes except for the few basic round ones.

[NotMyFault]

1 minute ago, DarkClown said:

Tried them all?

Kind of 😂 Deutsche Gründlichkeit

twice, to be sure 

Or 6 times (Win, Mac, iPad).

 

The big misunderstanding: vector brushes are in reality bitmap images stretched or repeated along a vector path. Only the mentioned modifiers (pressure profile, annotations, mitre etc) are vector based.

If you invest a bit more searching the forum you will see most questions have been answered more then once.

[Old Bruce]

Try using the top two from the Pen category.