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I'm having an issue that makes the Affinity Designer pen tool unusable and I can't draw on Windows 11, as I'm getting horrendous lines that are completely out of quality. I'm attaching a GIF file. 

As you can see when I draw my lines instead of being smoother or whatever are going completely off and unacceptable, I don't want to correct every wobbly line. 

Please let me know if you have any ideas on how to fix this 

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Have you tried a different mouse or input device?
If there is a battery in the device is it properly charged?

Have you tried switching the Stabiliser ON (on the Context Toolbar)?

Which brush are you using and what are the settings for that brush?
Can we see a screenshot of the Brushes Panel with the brush selected and Brush Edit dialog?

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@GarryP Hey Thank you for your time, this is a wired mouse actually think the issue is the smoothing algorithm - i tried another mouse and it was roughly the same. 

yes I tried stabiliser on and off ON is better but it is worse to draw with 

brush just the standard pencil, I don't need a brush as I want to use affinity for the outline only, I wanted to I mean. 

I think that no one noticed this yet :D and was like this from the beginning of V2, As far as I know, correct me if I'm wrong but there is no way of turning OFF - smooth after stroke? 

thanks! 

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When using the Pencil Tool with the Stabiliser OFF I get similar results to you but get much better results with the Stabiliser ON – see attached video (where I prove that I’m not an artist).

I don’t know if there is a way to make the lines smoother without using the Stabiliser or manually editing the nodes after drawing.

I don’t know how the software chooses the frequency of samples when the Stabiliser if OFF and don’t know if there’s a way to change it.

(I’ve just checked with V1.10.6 and it’s working pretty much the same there as far as I can tell.)

The only other things I can think of at the moment are:

  • to try a ‘balled’ mouse (if you can find one) rather than an optical mouse to see if that makes a difference, or;
  • maybe reducing the sensitivity of the mouse so it doesn’t tell the software it has moved quite so often.

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