Affinity Designer - Pencil tool: closing paths? continue path?

[cocoazenith]

Hi,

 

I've searched the forum but it seems that these features have yet to be implemented.

So here I am asking whether they are possible and I am just missing something:

 

I'm talking about the Pencil Tool in Affinity Designer.

 

1. Is it possible to automatically close a path after you have drawn a...circle...let's say? So basically I'm asking AD to snap to closing the path for the Pencil tool.

 

2. When I use the pencil tool and stop drawing with my tablet there's a problem resuming the shape that i've already created. You just simply cannot continue the path.

 

Cheers!

[Callum]

Hi Cocoazenith,

 

Welcome to the Forums :)

 

It isn't possible to automatically close your paths or continue drawing them with the Pencil tool I'm afraid. However I will move this thread to the Feature Requests section as I think these suggestions would make great additions to the apps :)

 

C

[cocoazenith]

great. looking forward to seeing them implemented.

Also the Lock Guides feature is a very important feature that i would like to be available.

 

cheers!

[awakenedbyowls]

Was this ever implemented? I'm trying to work out how to get the pencil tool to do this. Seems like a fairly basic feature to me.

[retrograde]

On 4/5/2017 at 1:57 AM, Callum said:

Hi Cocoazenith,

 

Welcome to the Forums

 

It isn't possible to automatically close your paths or continue drawing them with the Pencil tool I'm afraid. However I will move this thread to the Feature Requests section as I think these suggestions would make great additions to the apps

 

C

Yes please. This surely needs to get added. 

[Kaze]

Any updates on this? It's a huge oversight.

Please don't become Adobe!

[Guest]

Just bumping this one again as it is still a considerably annoyance to my workflow.

[prophet]

I'm using the pencil tool for the first time today and within the first 3 seconds was utterly confounded by not being able to continue my stroke.

[walt.farrell]

48 minutes ago, prophet said:

I'm using the pencil tool for the first time today and within the first 3 seconds was utterly confounded by not being able to continue my stroke.

Select Sculpt Mode in the Context Toolbar.

[prophet]

7 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Select Sculpt Mode in the Context Toolbar.

Not very intuitive to find on one's own, but thanks for the tip.

[walt.farrell]

You're welcome.
 

[walt.farrell]

2 minutes ago, prophet said:

Not very intuitive to find on one's own

By the way: Type continue pencil in the Search bar in Designer Help (online, at least), and each of the first two results discusses it and how to do it. 

[Pšenda]

On 11/1/2022 at 9:35 PM, walt.farrell said:

By the way: Type continue pencil in the Search bar in Designer Help (online, at least), and each of the first two results discusses it and how to do it. 

But the paradox is that if you search directly for the term "Sculpt", you will not find anything at all.
Again, I must state that it is not above a Google/external search:
https://www.google.com/search?q=Sculpt+site:https://affinity.help