JohnWMcC Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 (edited) I'm trying to learn Affinity Designer 2 (AD2) from scratch. I want to draw straight lines on a Dimetric Grid to start learning how to draw simple objects in AD2 before getting more complicated. I select the Pen tool, select Line mode, and start to draw. I'm trying to draw a cube in 2D on a Dimetric grid. I have Snap to node and Snap to Grid on, and the grid showing. I have Preserve selection (don't really know what that does) on, and Add to Curves on. Join was on, I accidentally turned it off, and now it won't come on again. I get part way through drawing a cube, and suddenly each new line I draw deletes (or perhaps just hides?) a previous one. All that's left is the outside of the drawing. All the interior lines have disappeared. And now only the last line I drew has highlighted nodes. The other lines in the overall outline have no visible nodes. How can I stop this happening? I've searched the forum for Pen Tool and iPad, and get no results. Help, please. Until I figure this out, I can't see how to use this powerful tool to make quick sketches of woodworking objects. PS. I have read Quick Start and am now trying the Help, to understand lines and curves. Edited March 21 by JohnWMcC Omitted something - the PS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Komatös Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 Hello and welcome to the forums, @JohnWMcC The only thing I can think of is that you forgot to set the line width or the outline color. Quote AMD Ryzen 7 5700X | INTEL Arc A770 LE 16 GB | 32 GB DDR4 3200MHz | Windows 11 Pro 23H2 (22631.3296) AMD A10-9600P | dGPU R7 M340 (2 GB) | 8 GB DDR4 2133 MHz | Windows 10 Home 22H2 (1945.3803) Affinity Suite V 2.4 & Beta 2.(latest) Better translations with: https://www.deepl.com/translator Interested in a robust (selfhosted) PDF Solution? Have a look at Stirling PDF Life is too short to have meaningless discussions! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnWMcC Posted March 21 Author Share Posted March 21 I’ll look again at that, but thought I had. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Lee D Posted March 21 Staff Share Posted March 21 @JohnWMcC Welcome to the forums. A screen recording showing your workflow and the issue occur would be helpful. Perhaps pin the Stroke studio so it doesn't auto close while your recording. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnWMcC Posted March 21 Author Share Posted March 21 I’ll have to look up how to do that on iPad - maybe not until tomorrow as I’m busy on other things most of today. Thanks for the suggestion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnWMcC Posted March 22 Author Share Posted March 22 It seems that get this behaviour only when I have the pen width set to the (default) of 0. Then it behaves that way. See video of what happens. It seems that get this behaviour only when I have the pen width set to the (default) of 0. Then it behaves that way. See video of what happens. To a new user, that was baffling. A bug, or intended behaviour? RPReplay_Final1711132787.mp4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted March 22 Share Posted March 22 If the width is 0, then you will only see curves that are selected, and this is (as far as I know) correct. If a curve is not selected, and has no stroke, it is invisible. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnWMcC Posted March 22 Author Share Posted March 22 Sort of makes sense. Anyway, the problem I had is sorted now - I just have to have a stroke width greater than zero walt.farrell 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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