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Affinity Designer: How to continue a vector brush curve?


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Hi,

Is it possible to continue a previously drawn vector brush curve in Affinity Designer? If I start a curve using the vector brush tool and lift my pen off my screen, and later want to continue the same curve, I am unable to do so. I know that with the Pen tool you can Cntrl click the curve to continue it, but this appears not to work with the vector brush. How does one do this? Thanks in advance!

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Draw a second curve, and then Join it to the first curve.

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Hi, Erica,

AFAIK, what you want is not supported. 2 things. You can assign a vector brush stroke to a pen line, which mean the brush "nib" will continue to stretch or repeat along the vector. You can also draw a new line w. either the vector brush or the pencil, and then use the join curves command. If the added curve is close to the original, the join won't require much if any tweaking.

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On 12/18/2021 at 6:22 PM, thegregwilliams said:

Is there an update to this? Is it still not possible to pick up a previously drawn path with vector brush? Manually joining two paths afterwards really does put a kink in a drawing workflow :(

Yes, it would be very helpful to be able to pick up and just continue drawing a curve like you can in Illustrator (I'm trying to make the switch from Illustrator to Designer).

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3 hours ago, Megnusin said:

Any updates on this feature?

On Mac OS I can use the pen tool to continue on once I have selected the end node (use the Command key to temporarily switch to the Node tool in order to select the end node) then with that end node selected I can continue using the Pen tool to add to the curve by holding down the Option Key.

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7 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

the pen tool

But this is not how it works in the required Vector Brush.

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Anyone have useful workarounds for this workflow? I heavily use brush tool to go over an existing vector curve or to resume my brushwork to extend things with a stylus. Piling on resuming lines with pen pressure would be much more empowering than going switching to a pen tool for this, and can't imagine there's a sane way to rebuild stroke weight after switching to the pen tool to add anchor points. 

Is this thread the best way to express interest in having a "resume brush line" or "redraw curve with brush" feature. I overestimated Designer 2's ability coming from vintage Adobe Illustrator CS 5. 

I didn't see a v2 thread about this and don't know where to upvote this if this "pre-v2" is where suggestions stay suggestions forever :/ ... Side question: is there a way to edit the pressure by interacting directly with a curve, I recall something like a "stroke width" editor tool in Illustrator for making thickness adjustments manually, which is the 2nd half of this painpoint in my workflow. Thanks for being easy on a newbie awakening an old thread.

 

 

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32 minutes ago, organicprecision said:

Is this thread the best way to express interest in having a "resume brush line" or "redraw curve with brush" feature. I overestimated Designer 2's ability coming from vintage Adobe Illustrator CS 5. 

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