@Raaskot said in Adding modifiers in attached file have no effect: Masks are not affected. Bug or by design? I tested this, and unfortunately this is by design. The Halftone effect will work on the image part only, not the mask. This case can only be handled with vector halftones

@Raven said in Redrawing part of a path with the pencil tool: I haven't been able to get VS's Liquify tool to act the same. I added the Freeform tool to the 1.4 feature backlog

@Raven Cannot be disabled, I will try to fix this for the next build

@EricP There is an SVG importing bug here, I have to find a solution.

@marce Here goes the shape, the video shows how is different the simplify between inkscape and VS. Inkscape start to delete nodes, making smooth the shape until it become totally lost. VS reduce some nodes, but shape become more kind of square. https://icedrive.net/s/Gv6S2gw45ygCi6Wv6CXvBFShhuVP [image: 1766886332992-test-simplify.svg] 0_1766886340876_Test Simplify.vstyler

@Daniel looks great! Btw. would it be possible to create a thread about this in the tutorial section? That way it would be easier for other users to find.

I'm curious what zoom level that was

@ZATOPEK This seems to be a bug. Aligning the stroke to the center will show the correct stripes. I will try to find a solution for this.

@VectorStyler THANNNNKSSSSSS

@VectorStyler Fixed in recent update

@Li-Xiao said in A question about Repeater Intensity: Will the backdrop slope automatically switch to directions? The backdrop slope is using the background image "gradient" direction, so the answer is yes, but it depends how it is used.

@VectorStyler Splendid, thanks, and even with short key ctrl-shift-K [image: 1766049131420-5b59ae23-4e0b-4ab4-b12c-bb9e2bcfea73-image-resized.png] [image: 1766049395460-4899591d-cb17-4d05-8184-3f8c8640f0d5-image.png]

Thanks Yet if there's many shapes with exclusions it may (ie texts) it may be cumbersome. Is there a dedicated function for this? @Boldline said in How do I select and cmd-G grouped shapes to a new group?: the interior fills of enclosed shapes can be made a different color

@Raaskot your always welcome nice to hear that this ideas was helpful

Perfect, thank you. Don't know why I didn't see that.

@VectorStyler oh great! Thank you for fixing that

@William-Kansepa , interesting I don't see a big problem with that, since it's always easy to use a kind of dummy group (without colors). Or to plan a bit in advance. Alternatively, it is always possible to use multiple mirror groups. By the way, one way I found to add more objects to a mirrored single object works by first creating a Symbol of it. Then you use that Symbol and mirror it. Afterward, you can replace that Symbol with any objects or add more by selecting the objects and using the "Replace Symbol with Selected Object" button in the Symbols panel.

@Gremriel I tried it out and discovered something interesting. Firstly, I had the same problem as you: the intertwining effect disappeared when I deleted the outline. After that, the intertwining effect couldn't be created again. The reason for this could be that when you ungroup the objects, there are now four copies of the red object. I think this has something to do with the effect itself. If you delete three of the four objects, you can apply the effect again. [image: 1765573674592-intertwine-effect.png]

@William-Kansepa said in Node Editor vs Shape Editor tools: What are the major differences in functionality between the Node Editor and the Shape Editor tools? yes, this is a new thing in 1.3: Node Editor: will edit the nodes of the top effect, or the object shape Shape Editor: will always edit the object shape, regardless what effect is stacked on it. These two tools are the same of the object contains no shape effects

@VectorStyler Thanks for the quick reply. If you have some older DXF files that do not import, please send… Thanks, but I'm not really needing that. I'm just making some examples to demonstrate the decades-old "polyline" problem of the CAD>DXF>Bezier workflow (which I don't recommend, if at all avoidable). So I just wanted to make sure not being able to open the R12 files I'm using to demonstrate, is not unique to my installation. I can open R14 versions of the same files, (which do not demonstrate the polylines issue, but break curves at every path segment). JET