wncmacs Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 I have a map I am working on that has a path that represents a railroad. At the moment, I have it represented by a dash (using the Affinity Designer 2 node tool. I'd like to make it like the attached image (the line just above the North Toe River) - basically tick marks on a solid line. Is there a way to do this using the node tool or how should i approach drawing a line to resemble what is illustrated in the attached image? Thank you for your help! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 Create a brush. Draw a small T shape that sits horizontally like this Make sure it has integer numbers for dimensions and size Export the small T shape to a png file and use it as a texture or an image for brush creation Now you can use the vector brush or pen tool to draw your train track. Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loukash Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 1 hour ago, wncmacs said: tick marks on a solid line draw your lines using the solid stroke open the Appearance panel add a second dashed stroke to the same curve and adjust the elements to your liking Like this, for example: Quote MacBookAir 15": MacOS Ventura > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // MacBookPro 15" mid-2012: MacOS El Capitan > Affinity v1 / MacOS Catalina > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // iPad 8th: iPadOS 16 > Affinity v2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 See also related ... Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AffinityMakesMeWonder Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 57 minutes ago, loukash said: draw your lines using the solid stroke open the Appearance panel add a second dashed stroke to the same curve and adjust the elements to your liking Like this, for example: This method was absolutely best! Quote Happy amateur that playing around with the Affinity Suite - really love typograhics, photographing, colors & forms, AND, old Synthesizers! Macbook Pro 16” M1 2021 connected to an 32” curved 5K external display, iPad Pro 12.9” M1 2021, iPad Pro 10.5” A10X 2017, iMac 27” 5K/i7 late 2015… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AffinityMakesMeWonder Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 1 hour ago, loukash said: draw your lines using the solid stroke open the Appearance panel add a second dashed stroke to the same curve and adjust the elements to your liking Like this, for example: How do we save such a line so we easy and fast can recall it? Can’t see where to do that? Just now I’m on my iPad Pro M1, but I’ve got Affinity Suite also on my Macs… Quote Happy amateur that playing around with the Affinity Suite - really love typograhics, photographing, colors & forms, AND, old Synthesizers! Macbook Pro 16” M1 2021 connected to an 32” curved 5K external display, iPad Pro 12.9” M1 2021, iPad Pro 10.5” A10X 2017, iMac 27” 5K/i7 late 2015… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotMyFault Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 Save them as style. https://affinity.help/designer2/en-US.lproj/pages/Panels/stylesPanel.html https://affinity.help/designer2ipad/en-US.lproj/pages/ObjectControl/styles.html Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 | Windows 10 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AffinityMakesMeWonder Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 32 minutes ago, NotMyFault said: Save them as style. https://affinity.help/designer2/en-US.lproj/pages/Panels/stylesPanel.html https://affinity.help/designer2ipad/en-US.lproj/pages/ObjectControl/styles.html Thanks! Not that easy to remember where Serif have hided Styles on iPad… Quote Happy amateur that playing around with the Affinity Suite - really love typograhics, photographing, colors & forms, AND, old Synthesizers! Macbook Pro 16” M1 2021 connected to an 32” curved 5K external display, iPad Pro 12.9” M1 2021, iPad Pro 10.5” A10X 2017, iMac 27” 5K/i7 late 2015… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 17 minutes ago, AffinityMakesMeSmile said: Not that easy to remember where Serif have hided Styles on iPad… Or as Assets if you can remember that better. Assets Assets Panel Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 I would just use the Copy (your railroad tracks) and Edit > Paste Style after selecting the newly drawn line. No need to create Styles or Assets. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.1 | Affinity Photo 2.4.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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