Is the upgrade: Xara Designer Pro X v19 ==> v20 (perpetual) worth it ?

[handrawn]

there is at least one bug: https://www.talkgraphics.com/showthr...ug-stack-order

please note, that AFAIK whilst xara has announced this will be fixed in pro+, there is no confirmation that there will be bug fixes for perpetual 20

on my system, 4K 200% scaling, there have been crashes when using art brushes, but other members have not had this; you may not use art brushes [much]

it is probably worth it for the bundled content which acorn has mentioned, that I believe will at least partly provide a solution to the 'arrowheads', but I have not looked at this

'circular radius' - do you mean arcs of a circle with a given radius ?

[shiphen]

'circular radius' - do you mean arcs of a circle with a given radius ?

Apologies what I meant was the creation of what engineers call a "fillet".

i.e. Where you have a sharp corner where 2 straight lines meet and you want to round it with a simple curve that has specific radius.

e.g. This sort of thing:

[handrawn]

ok got it

no tool to do that, but there are ways of doing it as you may be aware, that can be a bit involved

[Acorn]

I agree.

The simplest way I know is to use the Erase tool at 100% round and set the diameter and scale the drawing.
Then touch on each vertex and drag out.

This splits the Line into segments where, with the Shape tool you pick the end of one segment and create a new node then drag the node onto the start of the next segment, rejoining the segments in this way until one Line again.

Very manual.

Acorn

[shiphen]

I agree.

The simplest way I know is to use the Erase tool at 100% round and set the diameter and scale the drawing.
Then touch on each vertex and drag out.

This splits the Line into segments where, with the Shape tool you pick the end of one segment and create a new node then drag the node onto the start of the next segment, rejoining the segments in this way until one Line again.

Very manual.

Acorn

TBH, I only half-understand that....
Either way one problem I have is the Eraser Tool diameter units always seem to be pixels not page units.

The other problem is that biting off a corner using either the Erase Tool or in fact using a circle of the desired diameter is that it tend to leave line segments behind at random/inconvenient places.

So what I end up doing is working with a square of the desired diameter and either adding it or cutting it off the shape in question. I then delete the unwanted line nodes and then dragging the resulting line by (roughly) it's middle to form some kind of fillet of roughly the desired radius.

Either way, yes VERY fiddly and manual.

J

[Acorn]

Hopefully, someone will rise to the challenge.

Using a shape to nibble turns the line into a shape as well.
Any intersection results in a shape.

Try centring circles under each vertex.
Manually add nodes where the line crosses the circumference. Delete the original vertex. Bend the Line between the new nodes, adjusting the handles to touch the circle centre.

Accurate, slow and manual.



Acorn

[Acorn]

I poked my memory and rediscovered this method:

• Select the Line.
• Switch to the Contour tool:
  
  • Outer contour, 48px, 1-step, round join.
  • Inset path.
  • Inner contour, same width, ...
  • Inset path.
  
  
• Break at points for all the sharp corners.
  
  • Delete these points.
  
  
• Some may be the actual Line so reattach to the curved corner.
• The Line ends may need attention as well.

Acorn