John Bateson Posted February 10, 2019 Posted February 10, 2019 I do a lot of technical drawing and wish to add titles with lines pointing to the parts on the drawing. I have a lot of difficulty using the Pen Tool which in principle ought to be very easy. Most of the time, after I draw one line and then start another, the first one disappears etc etc until all I have left is the last one. After much fiddling all of a sudden it will work but it is getting the right fiddle to get to that point and so far I am just perplexed. John Quote
Staff Callum Posted February 11, 2019 Staff Posted February 11, 2019 Hi John Bateson, This certainly sounds odd. If possible could you provide a screen recording of this issue? Thanks Callum Quote Please tag me using @ in your reply so I can be sure to respond ASAP.
John Bateson Posted February 11, 2019 Author Posted February 11, 2019 What do you mean by a screen recording? Not sure I can do this anyway. The original drawings are created from a CAD package and screens I compose from the parts of the drawings are saved as PNG files (see previously attached picture). These are then opened with Affinity Photo and saved as an Affinity file, to which I add text frames. It is when I add the lines to go from the test frames to the part that I hit these peculiar issues. John Quote
Staff Callum Posted February 11, 2019 Staff Posted February 11, 2019 Hi John, Could you provide the file in question along with step by step instructions on how to replicate the issue? Thanks Callum Quote Please tag me using @ in your reply so I can be sure to respond ASAP.
dutchshader Posted February 11, 2019 Posted February 11, 2019 are the lines showing up in the layers panel? could be the stroke width is set to 0 pt Quote intel core i5, 16GB 128Gb ssd win10 Pro Huion new 1060plus. philips 272p 2560x1440px on intel HD2500 onboard graphics Razer Tartarus Chroma
John Bateson Posted February 11, 2019 Author Posted February 11, 2019 The lines are showing in the layers panel, if I select one of them the line shows up surrounded by its bounding box, then disappears again when I select something else. This sort of indicates to me that it is hiding behind a layer or something similar but no matter how much I fiddle and reset I have found no sequence yet which resets this. The line width is definitely set with a stroke width of 0.8 mm. One thing I have noticed is that when a line is going to be permanent, it seems matginally thicker when boing drawn, and then I know the system has reset! JOhn Quote
dutchshader Posted February 11, 2019 Posted February 11, 2019 Could you post a screenshot of the layerspanel? Quote intel core i5, 16GB 128Gb ssd win10 Pro Huion new 1060plus. philips 272p 2560x1440px on intel HD2500 onboard graphics Razer Tartarus Chroma
John Bateson Posted February 11, 2019 Author Posted February 11, 2019 Hope this helps - for this picture the lines went in straight away no problems. What should I be looking for? In the past I have relied on Affinity for the pictures and words, loaded these into PPX9 and then added the lines there - quite unsatisfactory though. John Quote
Staff MEB Posted February 11, 2019 Staff Posted February 11, 2019 Hi John Bateson, Welcome to Affinity Forums Select one of the lines that disappear when you click somewhere else, then click the stroke width dropdown in the context toolbar (see screenshot below). Make sure the line has a width applied. If the line still disappears can you please upload the .afdesign file using this link for us to take a look please? Thanks. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software
dutchshader Posted February 11, 2019 Posted February 11, 2019 That is what i thought, but the sroke is set to 0.8 mm Quote intel core i5, 16GB 128Gb ssd win10 Pro Huion new 1060plus. philips 272p 2560x1440px on intel HD2500 onboard graphics Razer Tartarus Chroma
dutchshader Posted February 11, 2019 Posted February 11, 2019 In the screenshot everything looks normal. Quote intel core i5, 16GB 128Gb ssd win10 Pro Huion new 1060plus. philips 272p 2560x1440px on intel HD2500 onboard graphics Razer Tartarus Chroma
John Bateson Posted February 11, 2019 Author Posted February 11, 2019 Some progress - maybe. It seems that on all the lines that disappear the line width has been set to zero in spite of 0.8 being selected. If I select one of these missing lines by selecting an area and then click, the line width has been set to zero and setting it back to 0.8 makes the line always visible. I also found, quite by accident, that if I had a line disappear, select TEXT and click on the drawing, but don't enter any text. Then select the pen tool and 'Hey Presto' all the lines become permanent! Confused I am, but getting there. John Quote
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