Closing path using Pencil Tool

[befehr]

While using the Pencil Tool in AD for iPad, is there a way to change a setting to automatically close a path, where the nodes of end and beginning of the that path join. Or will I have to switch to Node Tool and close each of them manually?

[Gabe]

Hi @befehr,

You cannot auto-close a path while using the pen tool. You would have to manually close it using the node tool as you've already discovered

Thanks,

Gabe. 

[befehr]

Dang! 

Thanks Gabe.

[Tiffany Nguyen]

On 7/18/2018 at 6:58 PM, befehr said:

Dang! 

Thanks Gabe.

 Auto close path really suck. You have to mannually select 2 node then click on a button to just close the path.

Why won’t they just create one button to Close path?

[Bryan Rieger]

Or close the path automatically when the first and last points in a path are within a given threshold, with the last point being merged with the first, and matching the existing curve.

[walt.farrell]

This topic is a bit confusing because the title and first post discusses using the Pencil Tool, but then Gabe answered about the Pen Tool. But the answer also applies to the Pencil Tool.

In V1, in Designer on iPad, the Pencil Tool does not have an auto-close function.

In V2, it does have an auto-close function, that will automatically close the curve when you stop drawing. However, it does not have the threshold and auto-merge functions that @Bryan Rieger has wished for.