How to reverse curve of shapes?

[NotMyFault]

Hi,

i want to use the equivalent of „reverse curve“, but on shapes without „covert to curve“.

It seems impossible. The only way to reverse the curve (direction of brush) is to mirror it along one axis, but this will change the shape (for unsymmetrical shapes).

 

The screenshot shows iPad, same challenge on Desktop.

 

Reverse Curve for Shapes.afdesign

[R C-R]

I think it is impossible because as implemented the 'quick shapes' are not considered to be curves & thus have no directional orientation like curve objects do. That's why they need to be converted to curves to reverse their directions.

Feature request?

[v_kyr]

Shapes

A shape is a closed path with no discernible start or end. It is made up of multiple nodes and segments.

• Draw and edit shapes
• Convert objects to curves

It's as R C-R already told, the quick shapes are treated as objects on their own, with a different shape vs curve behavior here, as any selection of them with the Node tool will also already show. - Pretty similar to the text as object handling.

[NotMyFault]

Well, technically shapes have an orientation, even if this is not documented, and you can change the orientation by mirroring the shape. 
 

And shapes technically have a start / end point. Add arrowheads to spot where it is (this gets really funny when using handcrafted vector brushes with a vertical structure e.g. multiple colored lines in one brush)
 

This functionality is too minor to waste a feature request. Hoped that someone had found an ingenious trick. 

[thomaso]

I wonder why a path requires a direction at all (apart from fill modes even-odd/none-zero). I would rather expect a direction option as Brush Property or in the Stroke Panel, where various stroke / brush options get set already, e.g. back/front strokes, start/end arrows + swap-button (!), stroke end caps and stroke alignment.

Visually we would expect that flipping a vector object would not affect an applied stroke in the current way, – as it does not for the same object's appearance if the object is rasterized or a physical real live object.

Even the dragging direction when drawing a shape object does not influence the object in that way: Neither a stroke gets applied differently nor a text frame causes flipped text when the object gets drawn in reverse, from bottom right to top left for instance.

Are there any technical reasons that neither Brush Properties nor Stroke Panel allow to set the stroke direction – although there is the swap option for arrow caps?