brunovinhas Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 I was doing some drwaing with the pencil tool and I've missed a shortcut to draw straight lines. Like pressing shift (i.e.) enables to draw a vertical or horizontal line and pressing alt(i.e.) would draw straight limes at a angle of 5º or 10º steps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 The Pencil Tool is for drawing freehand. Why would you use it for drawing straight lines? If you want straight lines, use the Pen Tool in 'Line' mode (or 'Polygon' mode). Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmac Posted July 18, 2016 Share Posted July 18, 2016 The pencil tool is for drawing. Period. And you should be able to constrain it to straight horizontal or vertical lines. Petar Petrenko 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted July 18, 2016 Share Posted July 18, 2016 Well, the hintline for the Pencil Tool tells me to "DRAG to start drawing freehand." However, it also tells me, "Ctrl to use Node Tool." When I use Ctrl to switch temporarily to the Node Tool, I find that I can Alt-click to remove the handles so that I get a straight line. Having said that, there's no obvious way to make that straight line perfectly horizontal or vertical. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petar Petrenko Posted July 18, 2016 Share Posted July 18, 2016 The pencil tool is for drawing. Period. And you should be able to constrain it to straight horizontal or vertical lines. Yes, it should act like in Freehand -- drawing straight lines while a modifier key is pressed, and curves without modifier key. Quote All the latest releases of Designer, Photo and Publisher (retail and beta) on MacOS and Windows. 15” Dell Inspiron 7559 i7 ● Windows 10 x64 Pro ● Intel Core i7-6700HQ (3.50 GHz, 6M) ● 16 GB Dual Channel DDR3L 1600 MHz (8GBx2) ● NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 4 GB GDDR5 ● 500 GB SSD + 1 TB HDD ● UHD (3840 x 2160) Truelife LED - Backlit Touch Display 32” LG 32UN650-W display ● 3840 x 2160 UHD, IPS, HDR10 ● Color Gamut: DCI-P3 95%, Color Calibrated ● 2 x HDMI, 1 x DisplayPort 13.3” MacBook Pro (2017) ● Ventura 13.6 ● Intel Core i7 (3.50 GHz Dual Core) ● 16 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3 ● Intel Iris Plus Graphics 650 1536 MB ● 500 GB SSD ● Retina Display (3360 x 2100) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brunovinhas Posted July 18, 2016 Author Share Posted July 18, 2016 I'm always awed by the narrow-minded replys that I keep getting with my ideas But fortunately I'm not the only one finding that this idea can be very handy. Other solution would be adding a polyline tool like the one Corel Draw has. But working simply as Petar_MK described would be enough. Thanks MattP and Petar Petrenko 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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