Jhonatan S

hi there,

I'd like to share my experience with the Pencil tool, and I think this is related to a bug topic,

first, I notice nice improvement when you convert shapes to curves. Very awesome, thanks to the team efforts 😊

But when I need to use Pencil tool. it still doesn't work as I'd like to use.
eg. trying to close the curves, they doesn't happen so well.

then I need to always activate the sculpt mode.
however doesn't work easily (as you can see on the video).

eg. When you draw a shape, the beginning and the end of each shape drawn, adds more points, making the curve not optimised, taken even more time to fix it.

as I use affinity everyday, I come only when I see a tool that I use all the time would need to have a bit more of attention. 

for now I suggest to my students and followers to use the pen tool,
easy to close the shape and very well optimised.


SUGGESTIONS (for this topic)
Pencil tool (quick draw mode) it draws the shape (example shown at the end of the video)

Clear Shape Option (Reduces the amount of nodes created, making the shape clear to adjust)

add Keyboard Shortcuts for the Close the Curve and shortcuts to the ToolBar buttons, would be awesome as well.

Please take in consideration this topic for the next upcoming improvements
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Jhon


 

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yes, I also could click in the bottoms on the top bar to make what we need,

In fact
what is important to report here is that we could add the functions available to be customizable as shortcuts,
we advanced users, give a lot of value about time, even the "seconds" to click manually at some menus thousands time, in the end is always time consuming.

as reported by others people, seems that some functions are missing on the shortcuts.

one of them that we use a lot are:

Close curves,
Convert to smart
Convert to sharps
Transform mode

the important functions are not available on the keyboard shortcuts on the tools available to us.