expand stroke on line after stroke width tool unexpected results

[thegary]

When using the stroke width tool on a line , and then expanding stroke. Sometimes its expands correctly.

Othertimes its not correct, distorted not replicating the results.

This seems to be a new bug to me.

One minute it works the next it doesn't. 

Seems more consistant if you do it in a file with nothing else. 

But if there are other elements in the document then you get unexpected results.

Rather annoying. Ended up drawing out shapes instead.

Gary

 

[NathanC]

Hi @thegary,

There are a few known issues/conditions surrounding the expand stroke function producing unexpected results, if you have a copy of a file where you have encountered this issue with the non-expanded stroke still present we can confirm.

Many thanks

[thegary]

5 hours ago, NathanC said:

Hi @thegary,

There are a few known issues/conditions surrounding the expand stroke function producing unexpected results, if you have a copy of a file where you have encountered this issue with the non-expanded stroke still present we can confirm.

Many thanks

@NathanC Thank you for the reply.

File attached. I have the stroke with unexpected results.

Duplicate of lines to the left so you can see what they look like before expanding.

Gary

 

test.afdesign

[NathanC]

Thanks @thegary, can confirm I've replicated and logged this with the developers.

[Bound by Beans]

Unfortunately, it's quite unaesthetic algorithms that expand a line like this:

Example of an extremely simple line in Designer:

 

Expand stroke in Designer results in nodes everywhere, which you can't remove without effort and risk.

Copied this ugly result to Vectorstyler. 'Simplify' in VectorStyler gives me this elegant and usable result in just one second and a single click.

 

This essentially makes it necessary to handle much of the vector work, if not all of it, in other applications. Perhaps it's time to recruit some vector specialists?