What is the pen tool doing

[roncurington]

I don't understand what the Pen tool is doing. I draw a path and then try to stroke it. This gives me a stroke on the anchor points of the path and nothing between the points.. If I go into the Layer Styles > Stroke pallet and run up the thickness of the stroke. It gives me Bigger Dots at the anchor point

and still nothing on the line.

I must be missing something here. Can anyone tell me what's going on.

[PECourtejoie]

Hello, please post a screen capture of the entire screen with the layers, option bar and the problem visible.

[c.pfaffenbichler]

Please post a jpg with the Path.

Could you please also post a screenshot taken at View > 100% and with the pertinent Panels (Layers, Paths, Options Bar, …) visible?

Why »Stroke Path« anyway – might the Shape Layer Stroke not offer more convenience?

[c.pfaffenbichler]

I may have misunderstood – are you using a Shape Layer already or are you trying to apply a stroke via the Paths Panel?

[roncurington]

I was trying to make a video so you could see more clearly what I was doing But the there were audio issues so I couldn't narrate . So for now Iv'e got screen shots.

BTW I'm using a locally installed copy of CS6. Also I used the Pen tool to create this path  clicked the path in the paths pallet to make it active. Then clicked the "Stroke Path button . This causes the nodes to become dots the color I have set for the stroke color and apparently the thickness I have set as the brush thickness

[roncurington]

The other sise of the screen

[c.pfaffenbichler]

Could you please post a jpg with the Path itself?

[Semaphoric · Accepted solution]

Look in your Brushes panel, under Brush Tip Shape, and make sure that the Spacing box is Checked.

    

[roncurington]

That was the trick. Thank you very much. That's the kind of thing that would never have turned up in any tutorial or help file