Splitting tapered path does not preserve stroke widths

[Lindsay Wilson]

Affinity Designer 2.0.4, Windows 10 64-bit. Screenshot attached. Top shows a single path of 50pt width, tapered using the pressure curve from 100% to 25%. Middle is what happens after splitting the path in the middle with the knife tool. Each half has the same overall style as the original path - i.e. they BOTH have 50pt width and taper from 100% to 25%. Perhaps this is by design (e.g. Illustrator behaves the same way), but I would have assumed that it would be clever enough to preserve the widths on both sides of the split, i.e. producing an exact visual split, like shown at the bottom. In this example, both lines still have 50pt width, but the first tapers from 100% to 62.5%, and the second from 62.% to 25%.

If this is indeed by design, it would be extremely useful to have an option to select which behaviour it uses!

[Lee D]

If you expand the stroke before using the Knife tool you would get your desired results. But it then may depend on what you want to do with the objects after that. I'd recommend posting this in our Feature Request/Improvements section instead.

[Lindsay Wilson]

1 hour ago, Lee D said:

If you expand the stroke before using the Knife tool you would get your desired results. But it then may depend on what you want to do with the objects after that. I'd recommend posting this in our Feature Request/Improvements section instead.

Thanks for getting back. This is actually tied in with using expand stroke then the shape builder for creating knotwork/interlacing patterns from self-intersecting paths (I have another post on that here:https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/180721-expand-stroke-on-self-intersecting-curves-to-create-knotworkinterlace/. Unfortunately I can't expand the stroke first, because then it doesn't properly show the stroke at the crossovers! I hadn't realised there was a reuqests section, I'll definitely post it over there.