Change direction of stroke shape

[sunland]

When you apply a stroke shape / pressure profile to a line from the Line Gallery, say thick at one end and thin at the other.
Is there a way to reverse the position of the thick and thin ends.

Thanks,
sunland

[Acorn]

sunland, Shape Tool (F4) > Reverse paths icon.
Looks like a sideways U-turn.

Acorn

[handrawn]

here is another way in which xara is unhelpful

should be a modifier to enable you to draw the profiled line 'in reverse' in the first place with the freehand tool certainly

one for you Rob...

[sunland]

Duh,
Thanks to the Acorn

[wizard509]

Yes select your line then with the shape tool reverse-path located in the gray area just above the white pasteboard but below line width almost looks like part of a paper clip with an arrow head at one end.

[Promidi]

What you could do is assign a keyboard command to this.

Menu > Utilities > Customise Key Shortcuts

Under the command “Shape Editor & Pen Tools”, scroll down to “Reverse Paths”. Then assign your preferred key sequence.

Now, while drawing your stroke, press your key sequence to reverse the path.

[handrawn]

yes good point that is useful if you are content to reverse the path after you have drawn the stroke, but that is not the freehand way
xara gives you a realtime visual of your stroke as you draw it, so why then negate that in respect of path direction...

about time xara had a define your own stroke shapes feature too

and if you are content to modify the stroke afterwards then being able to change width on the fly by dragging mouse left/right over selected node(s) is now well established elsewhere