rounded rectangle tool reverts to unwanted values no matter what I do

[Tokamak]

Running Affinity Designer 2 v 2.3.0 for windows.

Just as the title says. Whenever I use the rounded rectangle tool, it sets the starting values of properties to something I don't want, and I can't change the default.

Example: make rounded rectangle. Curvature is set to proportional 25%. I change it to absolute size, 150px. I click "synchronize defaults from selection" Now I make another rounded rectangle, which usually comes out the way I set it. Then I do something else elsewhere, like use the text tool or whatever, and when I go back and make another rounded rectangle, it comes out as proportional 25% and I have to manually change it. No amount of setting values and hitting "synchronize defaults" stops this from happening.

And it's not even that it's taking the value from the last thing I selected or something, because I don't have any rounded rectangles with any other values. Everything is set to absolute 150px.

But this means that if I'm using a lot of them (and I am) I have to manually change every single one, which is really tiresome.

Also, the thing that it wants to set things too sometimes changes. For a while it was setting all new rounded rectangles to 100% curvature,. which is basically a circle.

What am I meant to do to fix this? This is making a LOT of extra work for me.

[walt.farrell]

"Synchronize defaults from selection" works with objects. Have you tried doing that operation after you draw the Rounded Rectangle, so you have a selection to use?

[Tokamak]

Yes, that's how I do it.

[firstdefence]

What about creating a preset or making an asset out of a rounded rectangle with 150px absolute rounded corners? that's simply drag and drop and resize, if you have sizes you make a lot simply make the rounded rectangle to that specific size then it's simply a drag and drop affair.

[thomaso]

The corner radius is not a style property like colour and stroke but rather geometry like object size or aspect ratio and thus is not included in the object "Defaults" and/or the "Styles" panel.

As workaround you could create a preset with the wanted radius setting (which does not store style properties). Unfortunately you still need to open + click-select this for every object and can't even apply it to multiple selected objects.

[PaulEC]

If you need several shapes that are the same, couldn't you just duplicate the first one? (Ctrl+drag or select in Layers Panel then ctrl+J)

[Tokamak]

8 hours ago, firstdefence said:

What about creating a preset or making an asset out of a rounded rectangle with 150px absolute rounded corners? that's simply drag and drop and resize, if you have sizes you make a lot simply make the rounded rectangle to that specific size then it's simply a drag and drop affair.

I did not know about that feature. I can try that.

 

 

4 hours ago, thomaso said:

The corner radius is not a style property like colour and stroke but rather geometry like object size or aspect ratio and thus is not included in the object "Defaults" and/or the "Styles" panel.

As workaround you could create a preset with the wanted radius setting (which does not store style properties). Unfortunately you still need to open + click-select this for every object and can't even apply it to multiple selected objects.

I can also try that.

 

It does seem kind of hacky, and it's weird that you can't just get it to repeat shapes with the same property by having it remember the shape you just made, but if I can get this to work, then that's the main thing. Thank you!

4 hours ago, PaulEC said:

If you need several shapes that are the same, couldn't you just duplicate the first one? (Ctrl+drag or select in Layers Panel then ctrl+J)

I'm using them as masks, so I can't just duplicated them that easily.

[R C-R]

20 minutes ago, Tokamak said:

I'm using them as masks, so I can't just duplicated them that easily.

Why not? A mask layer can be duplicated just like any other layer. Just select it in the Layers panel & use the Duplicate command from the Edit menu or the CTRL+J keyboard shortcut.

[Tokamak]

On 1/1/2024 at 10:24 AM, R C-R said:

Why not? A mask layer can be duplicated just like any other layer. Just select it in the Layers panel & use the Duplicate command from the Edit menu or the CTRL+J keyboard shortcut.

Ah! I didn't realize I could select and duplicate them like that. Thanks!

 

All of these extra steps are kind of a nuisance when I have to do dozens of them, but it's doable. Odd design choice on their part, but it is what it is.

Thank you all for all of the help!

[thomaso]

1 hour ago, Tokamak said:

All of these extra steps are kind of a nuisance when I have to do dozens of them, but it's doable. Odd design choice on their part, but it is what it is.

Try this:

1. Select the Rounded Rectangle Tool
2. Set the wanted radius in the Context Toolbar
3. Create the rectangle.

To me this order seems to make absolute 5 mm sticky for every new created frame, regardless whether I modify in between the radius of a created object to a different absolute or relative value – whereas if I change colour or stroke of an object then new created objects use the recent attributes but still stick to the radius I have set initially with no object selected.

[loukash]

Bug: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/search/&tags=af-1628

[thomaso]

37 minutes ago, loukash said:

Bug:

Do you see any relation of your linked bug (scaling after object creation) and the problem of this thread (default radius on object creation)?

[Tokamak]

19 hours ago, thomaso said:

Try this:

1. Select the Rounded Rectangle Tool
2. Set the wanted radius in the Context Toolbar
3. Create the rectangle.

To me this order seems to make absolute 5 mm sticky for every new created frame, regardless whether I modify in between the radius of a created object to a different absolute or relative value – whereas if I change colour or stroke of an object then new created objects use the recent attributes but still stick to the radius I have set initially with no object selected.

It doesn't work that way for me. It keeps resetting to default. Sometimes I can make a few shapes with the same parameters, but it resets when I switch tools and do something else, and sometimes is seems to just reset immediately.

[R C-R]

41 minutes ago, Tokamak said:

It doesn't work that way for me. It keeps resetting to default.

Did you try selecting the Rounded Rectangle Tool & setting its radius value(s) in the Context toolbar when no object is selected? If I do that, it remains 'sticky' but if say I still have a rectangle object selected that has a zero radius applied, then when I select the Rounded Rectangle Tool, its radius reverts to zero.

[thomaso]

On 1/3/2024 at 6:52 PM, Tokamak said:

It doesn't work that way for me. It keeps resetting to default. Sometimes I can make a few shapes with the same parameters, but it resets when I switch tools and do something else, and sometimes is seems to just reset immediately.

On 12/31/2023 at 8:16 PM, Tokamak said:

Running Affinity Designer 2 v 2.3.0 for windows.

If it works for me (V1) and for @R C-R (V2) there is possibly a difference between macOS and Windows? If yes, I'd assume this as a bug.

Maybe @walt.farrell has a chance to try whether a specific, custom rectangle radius set with no object selected is preserved by Affinity on Windows when toggling tools?

[walt.farrell]

On 1/5/2024 at 9:42 AM, thomaso said:

Maybe @walt.farrell has a chance to try whether a specific, custom rectangle radius set with no object selected is preserved by Affinity on Windows when toggling tools?

I don't think it is, but I'm not 100% sure I understand what you're asking. Sorry.

[Dan C]

Thanks for your report @Tokamak & our apologies for the delayed response here!

There appears to be a few issues here, mostly stemming from the aforementioned issue (AF-1628), whereby the regular Rectangle and Rounded Rectangle Quick Shapes are sharing properties/default settings, which is likely causing the confusion in your workflow.

Secondly, with the Rounded Rectangle Quick Shape selected, but without drawing this Quick Shape on your document, the Absolute Size slider appears to incorrectly max out at 8mm. If you have a default set with a larger Absolute value, then this will be incorrectly reported on the Context Toolbar without a shape being drawn/selected.

Finally, the Tool Name in the far left of the Context Toolbar is incorrect with the Quick Shape Tool active, but correct with the Move Tool active.

I'm getting these logged with our development team now also.

Do note that if you have a Rounded Rectangle already selected on the canvas, the currently shown values will be repeated for the next Rectangle drawn - if you want to use your default saved values, you'll need to ensure you don't already have a Rounded Rectangle shape selected.

I hope this helps

[Affinity Info Bot]

The issue "Rounded rectangle and standard rectangle share corner settings" (REF: AF-1628) has been fixed by the developers in internal build "2.4.0.2279".
This fix should soon be available as a customer beta and is planned for inclusion in the next customer release.
Customer beta builds are announced here and you can participate by following these instructions.
If you still experience this problem once you are using that build version (or later) please reply to this thread including @Serif Info Bot to notify us.

[Tokamak]

Yay! Thank you.