![]() Butt Cap: will make your dashes/dots have squared corners that end where the path ends.Round Cap: will make your dashes/dots have rounded corners.You can make your dashes/dots into circles or squares by using the Cap setting in the stroke menu: The Cap setting allows you to make the corners of your dashes/dots rounded or squared. Hover your cursor over the box and roll up on your mouse wheel to increase the spacing between dots/dashes. You can increase or decrease the space between the dashes/dots by using the second input box in the Dash setting: Changing this setting will allow you to increase and decrease the spacing between the dots/dashes. You can decrease the length of them by rolling down.ĭecreasing the Dash value to 0 will make the dashes so short in length that they become circles or squares (depending on the Cap style you’ve chosen,) effectively making them into dotted lines. Simply hover your cursor over the box and roll up on your mouse wheel to increase the length of your dashes. You can change the style of your dashes by using the first input box of the Dash setting at the bottom of the menu: Changing this setting makes the dots/dash longer or shorter. Increasing it will make the dotted line thicker, whereas decreasing it will make it thinner. To change the thickness of your dotted line, change the Width setting in the Stroke menu: The Width preset allows you to change the thickness of the dotted line. Now that we’ve gone over how to create dotted lines with Affinity Designer, let’s go over editing those lines further so you can stylize them however you’d like. This will make the dashes into dots: Setting the input to 0 make the dashes into dots.Ĭontinue on to the next part of the lesson to edit the properties of the dotted line further. Now navigate down to the bottom of the Stroke menu where is says Dash and set the first input box to 0. Once applied, you shape will then be converted from a solid line to dashed lines: Click to enlarge. Then, navigate to the Stroke tab and set the Style option to Dashed: Change the stroke setting to Dashed. To do so, first make sure that your object has a stroke applied to it. Let’s go over how to take an existing shape or object and convert it into dotted lines, rather than drawing them manually. If you’d like to edit the properties of your dotted line further, skip down to the editing section of the lesson. Set the first input box to 0 to make your dashed line into a dotted line: Change this input to 0 to make the dashes into dots. Now that you’ve created a dashed line, you can convert it into a dotted line by simply adjusting the Dash input at the bottom of the Stroke menu. ![]() Your dashed line may be too small to see at the default size it was when drawn, so go ahead and increase the Width of your stroke (in the Stroke menu) to see it better. Once applied, the stroke that you have drawn with the Pen Tool will be converted from a solid line to a dashed line: Once applied, the line will change to a dashed line. It should be the third box in from the left: Change the stroke setting to Dashed. Click the box that reads “ Dashed” when hovering your cursor over it. -click the object and select Create Style.Open the Stroke tab to change the properties of the line.Īt the top of the Stroke menu you will see an option labeled as Style, along with 4 boxes next to it.Select the object whose style you want to save, click Panel Preferences on the Styles panel, then choose Add Style from Selection from the menu.On the Styles panel, select a category to save the style into.Type a new name for the category in the dialog and click OK.Click Panel Preferences and choose Rename Category from the menu.Choose the category you want to rename from the category pop-up menu. ![]() ![]()
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