Stroke thickness

[TCT]

hi there, I have a piece that has hundreds of strokes and all of them have different size strokes. I want to increase the stroke size by a few points of everything. is there a way to do this without having to go one by one manually?

[Komatös]

Hi @TCT and welcome to the forum.

Select all layers in the layer panel, you want to change the stroke thickness, by holding the ctrl key. Now you can change the thicknes twice.

Note: Your question would have fit better in the corresponding section "Affinity for Desktops". A moderator will move this thread.

 

[thomaso]

8 hours ago, Komatös said:

Now you can change the thicknes twice.

What do you mean by "twice"? – A change of the stroke width will apply to all selected objects and result in the same width for all, right?

14 hours ago, TCT said:

I want to increase the stroke size by a few points of everything.

In the Stroke Panel we can't increase different stroke widths by a certain percentage (like "... pt * 120%")  with maintaining the different strokes. If you want to add a certain value to strokes but keep the differences between strokes of differing width then you can do it in several steps, one for each existing width. Select one object of a specific width and choose menu Select > Select Same > Stroke Weight. Then set the new width for the selected …

Workarounds:
– Another approach to add a certain, equal (but small) value to all different strokes could be done via the Contour Tool, applied to all objects.
– Also the layer effect "Outline" can add a stroke to an existing width. To apply it to more than 1 object at once you can group all curves that should get their stroke visually increased – Note, all layer effects always get rasterized on export.

 

[R C-R]

5 hours ago, thomaso said:

What do you mean by "twice"?

I wondered about that as well.

[purplie]

This trick might work for you, if you want the same percentage increase on all the different strokes.  Suppose you want to increase the strokes by a factor of 2.5 (250%).

1. "Select All"
2. In the "Stroke" panel, select the "scale with object" option.
3. In the "Transform" panel, make sure the aspect ratio is locked, and type *2.5 into the width field, and press Enter.  This should (temporarily) transform everything's size by a factor of 2.5.
4. In the "Stroke" panel, deselect the "scale with object" option.
5. In the "Transform" panel, type /2.5 into the width field, and press enter.  This should put everything back to its original size, leaving the strokes at the larger width.