Dotted Lines Issue

[ASUNDER]

I made a dotted line.  The numbers are wrong.

See here that it's almost as thick as the solid line.  Maybe 2 point thick (the solid line is 3pt).  But the settings says it's 0.2 point.  There's no way it's 0.2.
The pattern I used is 5 length and 3 space, the rest default (0).  I had two dotted lines grouped together.
Also, see that the cap is set to straight but it's clearly rounded.

Windows 10 PC x64 bit, 22H2 update.  Latest Affinity Designer 2 stable version.  This issue was reproduced twice, in an almost blank project.

[carl123]

14 minutes ago, ASUNDER said:

This issue was reproduced twice, in an almost blank project.

These sort if issues are usually much quicker to analyse if you can upload a sample document that shows the problem

[ASUNDER]

Ok here:

I just added a phase to the dotted line after I posted this.

 

Four Way Stop.afdesign

[Hangman]

Hi @ASUNDER,

Selecting the Group containing the dashed lines shows a value of 0.2 pt, selecting the lines themselves inside the Group shows them to be 2 pt...

Click the Group in the Layers Panel then click the slider in the Stroke panel keeping it set at 0.2 pt. This will set the stroke width for the lines within the Group to 0.2 pt.

[carl123]

1 hour ago, ASUNDER said:

 

 

What you are seeing above is the setting for the Group that contains those dashed lines. That group has a stroke of 0.2pt and a straight cap

But the dashed lines in that group have a 2pt stroke and round caps which is what you see on screen

Reselect that Group layer and change the stroke to a new value then back to 0.2pt (plus check the cap setting again)

That should give you the desired results

 

[ASUNDER]

15 minutes ago, carl123 said:

What you are seeing above is the setting for the Group that contains those dashed lines. That group has a stroke of 0.2pt and a straight cap

But the dashed lines in that group have a 2pt stroke and round caps which is what you see on screen

Reselect that Group layer and change the stroke to a new value then back to 0.2pt (plus check the cap setting again)

That should give you the desired results

 

I see.  Didn't realize that's the group setting only, my fault.
I would assume that if all the items in the group are the same value then the group value would appear, from the beginning of the group creation, at that common value.
Because nothing can be both 0.2pt width and 2pt width.  It has to be one or the other.  If both lines started off at 2pt when grouped, then why is the group value not 2pt?Unless the group setting is a multiplier and the child objects are a ratio of the parent value?

I dunno; I should learn more about this program before coming to conclusions.  Thank you for your help.

[carl123]

8 minutes ago, ASUNDER said:

I would assume that if all the items in the group are the same value then the group value would appear, from the beginning of the group creation, at that common value.

No, the group would have no value. It gets one when you specifically set one for the group layer

I can only speculate that at some point you had a group layer selected and adjusted the stroke to 0.2pt but after that you dragged/pasted etc the 2pt lines into that group.  The lines you add to the group in this way will not inherit the values set for the group but they will if you later change those group settings.  If none of that sounds familiar in your workflow then it was probably your cat acting mischievously.