@debraspicher I am a more mouse oriented user and avoid Shortcuts if i can. Like to use my second hand to drink a coffee. One key shortcuts are fine, two keys also ok. But 3 key shortcuts sorry, didnt like it. Of course i know Shortcuts allows to work faster, but i am not in need to be the fastest. To arrange the Order of Objects is also needed with Booleans, take the "Substract Boolean" as an Example where the order matters. Been using Xara for a while Coreldraw too, in both you could create your own Toolbar which i did. Its also possibel to create your own Toolbar in Vectorstyler but sadly they are not free scalable like in Xara and Corel. So i didnt use this. Here a Toolbar Example from Coreldraw: [image: 1776848567040-ksnip_20260422-110127.png] . . [image: 1776848574605-ksnip_20260422-110154.png]

@Boldline said in Editing Tracking value adds extra characters.: @VectorStyler said in Editing Tracking value adds extra characters.: @debraspicher This should be fixed in the 1.3.012 build @vectorstyler did you leave the 1.3.012 info update off the forum intentionally? No pressure or issue, was just curious Forgot to add that

@debraspicher Send me a file with the shapes where the default settings has issue in the Shape Builder

@VectorStyler Thank you so much! Wasn't expecting such a speedy response, another +1 Much appreciated

Does this need updating for 1.3? I still find it very helpful, btw.

@William-Kansepa said in Replacing linked image caused file size to balloon: If you check in Links panel, the image is still linked not embedded. Yes, but a copy of the image is also in the file. I will check why this happens.

@Boldline Will be fixed

Not intending to find this user here, I swear. I was doing both searches on YT and on the forum itself because I had been playing around with the idea of doing some tutorials myself. I saw that they were listed here in the search results as I had just peeked at their YT. They had actually posted an intro course of sorts, so I thought I would share it. It's pretty decent for new users and is well-paced: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyzePU3XlRw

@Subpath @vectorstyler Thanks, was searching for that command. It's mapped under attributes and I was looking elsewhere. Couple of things I managed to add a menu shortcut using the customize toolboxes, but when I click on the icon, it only displays the attributes popup, and the icons and text description are not right. [image: 1776015361107-screenshot-2026-04-12-at-11.04.01-pm.png] I tried to add a custom shortcut, but it appears as “attribute” instead of being labeled as the cloned or clone, as it was named in the menu. I haven’t tested the shortcut yet. [image: 1776015935820-screenshot-2026-04-12-at-11.14.46-pm.png] I have two objects, one blue and the other magenta, each with its clone. When I select only one cloned object, say blue, the clone command selects parent clones of blue and magenta. Not sure if this is how it’s supposed to work. I would expect to select only blue parent clone only. [image: 1776015718706-screenshot-2026-04-12-at-11.01.11-pm.png] By the way, in Mac, Command+D to duplicate, and Option+D to clone. I don’t recall changing the shortcuts. Perhaps I did, and I need to check on that. Hope cloning of parent object instead of cloned ones could be addressed. Thanks.

@stunthamster The file saving issue should be fixed in the newest app store version

@VectorStyler thanks for explanation.

@vectorstyler A big thanks for include duplicate colors now when creating a color palette from a selection of shapes. Made a little Tutorial already https://www.vectorstyler.com/forum/topic/5731/a-color-palette-from-a-selection-of-shapes-takes-duplicate-colors-into-account-now.

@vectorstyler, thank you so much!

@JET_VS Not really. Are there some examples for this?

@ThatMikeGuy A brief description: there are two groups of curve drawing tools How to use these is up to the users, some are present in other illustration apps also so they may be familiar. group 1: these are more commonly used Pen - this is the regular pen tool Pencil - similar to other apps, painting curves Path Sketch - this is VectorStyler specific, similar to Pencil but can intersect+union the curves as you draw Brush - these are real vector brushes (that is, the content of the brush is also vector) Line - well, a simple line tool group 2: these are a bit more complicated, some of these are present in other apps also. these can be of two type: parametric (retains editability), or just directly creating cubic Beziers The first 3 are creating regular paths with lines and curves: Curvature tool: creates a bezier shape with smooth curvature (similar to Illustrator) Bezigon tool: (similar to Freehand) lines and beziers (press Option/Alt for beziers) Arc tool: curves drawn as arcs The next 4 create parametric (live) shapes interpolating a sequence of points with various methods: Interpolated Shape: cubic interpolation, you can select the interpolation method in the Shape panel (or in the top row) B-Spline - interpolating B-Spline over a sequence of points, set the degree of interpolation in the panel Spline - cubic interpolating splines Curvature Shape - same as the Curvature tool, but retains the line shape and you can set the curvature precision in the Shape panel

SVG Strokes in MagicaCSG Since Beta 7.2, MagicaCSG can import SVG vector graphics. This means apart from shapes that vector strokes can also be imported. Overlapping, grouped lines create a gap at their intersections. However, this can be easily fixed by performing a Boolean union beforehand. Here a few Examples: The original vector file made in Vectorstyler [image: 1775234326001-svg-vector-file.png] . . Extruded in MagicaCSG [image: 1775234368461-svg-strokes-2.png] . . Used with MagicaCSG own Array Feature [image: 1775234403642-array-1.png] [image: 1775234409907-array-2.png]

Not only is it useful, I use it all the time because it is so easy to use, easy to remember is there and often I have the pointer next to it anyway thinking I have blank pages available and want to jump to them, but no, this is the last page - and then it is a no brainer to press the same next button to add the page or pages. It is a workflow smoother.