What's the purpose of the mitre value?

[iaing]

Thought I'd found a bug in the beta at first, but it's the same in 1.6 - when you give an object a stroke, you have a choice of 'Round Joint', 'Bevel Joint' or 'Mitre Joint' for Mitre there is also a Mitre value field - typing less than 1.5 gives you a bevel edge (if I wanted that I'd just choose 'bevel' button instead) - any value of 1.5 or above gives you what I'd expect; a square joint - anyone know the purpose of this Mitre value field?

[MEB]

Hi iaing,
Welcome to Affinity Forums
Check the posts from MattP and A_B_C for an explanation/details. It should clear this up for you.

[v_kyr]

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The stroke-miterlimit attribute is a presentation attribute defining a limit on the ratio of the miter length to the stroke-width used to draw a miter join. When the limit is exceeded, the join is converted from a miter to a bevel.

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[iaing]

1 hour ago, v_kyr said:

Thank you - wow I must be getting old - I knew that once from illustrator days and completely forgot!