Expand contour gives unexpected results

[Andreas S]

I created a stroke and tried to "Expand Contour".

What happened is this:

The beginning of the stroke gets distorted.

When switching to the Node Tool, It looks like the handles of the created nodes are not positioned correct.

Any idea, what is wrong?

 

[Callum]

Hi Andreas S,

Please could you provide a copy of the file in question so I can look into this further with you?

Thanks
C

[Andreas S]

Hi Callum,

thanks for looking into this. I've simplified the file and removed the other artboards, so you'll get now 1 page with two similar strokes. The top one produces the result from my first posting, the other one produces another strange result when applying "Expand contour" (Looks like some Control Handles of the knots get "out of control").

Expand Contour Sample.afdesign

[Old Bruce]

2 hours ago, Andreas S said:

the other one produces another strange result when applying "Expand contour" (Looks like some Control Handles of the knots get "out of control").

It is my old nemesis "coincident nodes". Try breaking it and rejoining the two curves. You have some weird angle/twist on the end of the large curve so change that to a Sharp node before joining.