I use the Offset tool frequently, and vary between using large offsets (for creating borders) and small offsets on a fairly compex shape (to increase the thickness of a long narow shape).
My problem is that when I go from making a large offset, when I then select the narrow, intricate object and open the offset tool, it defaults to trying to offset it by a large amount, which is quite computationally difficult as it tries to work out all the merges etc. it will need to conduct. Offsetting the intricate shape by a small amount is no problem, it seems to be as the intricate shapes merge into each other with large offset values that the issue comes.
I understand this is probably inherent to the offset tool, however the annoyance is when i oepn the offste tool and it imediately tries to apply the large offset I previously used, causing the program to crash.
Is there a way to either not show the offset as a preview, preventing the crash, or change the persistant ffset distance to 0 each time you open the tool (although I can see that would be annoying to people doing reeat offset operations)
