: When I create an arrow in Sketch and enlarge it, the tail bursts out of the arrow I've been creating an arrow in Sketch and whenever I adjust the Size property of the border, it decides

@Murray976

If you plan to use a dashed arrow, you'll probably need to combine a simple, dashed line to make the body of the arrow with an arrow shape to make for the point of the arrow (using the first "end" option as explained by Plainclothes). Otherwise expect ugly shapes.

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@Rambettina927

You've probably solved this by now, but for the sake of others who hope to make Sketch their Adobe killer (like me) here's the real answer.

Sketch's arrow shape tool sucks.

You're problem lies in the stroke end style. Take a look at these arrows and their corresponding stroke end settings.


This one is sucky.

This one is less so.



I've also noticed a serious screen drawing issue with the arrow shape but not with other shape objects. I think there's just a bug with the poor thing.

Sketch is a young app. These things are bound to plague us hopeful early users. Fortunately, Bohemian just brought on two new employees to keep things moving ahead. Let's all hope for something great in Sketch 3.0!

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@Vandalay110

It is unclear to me if the arrow is using a tool to {magically} tack on an arrow to a line, or if it is a composite vector.

If it is a composite, just move the left anchor rightwards. This may cause a gap at smaller border sizes. Alternatively, merge the shapes before applying the border.

If it is a {magic} shape, enlarge the shape and use a color fill, don't alter the border size.

Note that when enlarging a vector, the software must make an uninformed decision about how to handle attributes like borders. Some scale them, some leave them alone, some let you pick, some default to the one you wouldn't choose. For this reason, it is sometimes a good idea to not rely on these effects to define the shape of items which may be scaled in applications which you have no control over. (such as my grandmother's web browser)

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