Washishu Posted July 16, 2023 Posted July 16, 2023 Years ago (I’m meaning AI days here), I used to do an exercise with students involving creating a map. Roads, for example, were given a particular style, something similar to A in my example. I’ve created this by carefully cutting and editing strokes of differing widths. It looks right but it’s not editable. The problem in the exercise was to achieve this effect whilst still keeping the strokes editable. My failing memory tells me that it involved adding new strokes to the paths, as in B, but to achieve the crossroads effect, rather than the overpass, involved a Style in some way. But my memory just won’t dredge up the method. It’s of no great concern other than that now that I’ve remembered bits of it, I need to remember it all. Can anyone help? map.afdesign Quote
Old Bruce Posted July 16, 2023 Posted July 16, 2023 Here is one way of doing it. More stripes means more copies of the strokes Roads.afdesign Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.6.0 | Affinity Photo 2.6.0 | Affinity Publisher 2.6.0 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.
thomaso Posted July 16, 2023 Posted July 16, 2023 Style attached map road-style.afdesign Quote • MacBookPro Retina 15" | macOS 10.14.6 | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 • iPad 10.Gen. | iOS 18.5. | Affinity V2.6
Jonopen Posted July 16, 2023 Posted July 16, 2023 If not already mentioned, you can also use a round cap line style to help join roads and a dashed line to make centre road markings. Quote v2.5.3 Designer/Photo/Publisher | Mac mini (M1, 2020) | Sonoma 14.5
MiWe Posted July 17, 2023 Posted July 17, 2023 However, the examples only work for intersections within a curve. Not when different curves cross. Illustrator has the advantage that you can assign a contour style to an entire layer. Each object within this layer will have the same appearance even if separate curves cross. Would be a ncie feature for Designer too … Greetings Westerwälder 1 Quote
Washishu Posted July 17, 2023 Author Posted July 17, 2023 Thanks each and all. Old Bruce—I can't open that file as I have v1 only. As I was typing my response, MiWe's reply came in. That's the problem right enough. The multiple stroke solution is a solution only when a single path crosses itelf. Doesn't work for seperate paths. That business of assigning an Appearance to the layer rings a bell. Thanks MiWe. Seems that it can't be done in AffD. Not a problem for me really, it was just that in doing something else I (partially) remembered the technique and played around trying to re-create it as a learning experience. Quote
thomaso Posted July 17, 2023 Posted July 17, 2023 … or choose menu Layer > Geometry > Merge curves, to turn a bunch of selected layers of type "Curve" into 1 "Curves" layer. Quote • MacBookPro Retina 15" | macOS 10.14.6 | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 • iPad 10.Gen. | iOS 18.5. | Affinity V2.6
Old Bruce Posted July 17, 2023 Posted July 17, 2023 4 hours ago, Washishu said: Old Bruce—I can't open that file as I have v1 only. Roads Designer v 1.afdesign Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.6.0 | Affinity Photo 2.6.0 | Affinity Publisher 2.6.0 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.
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