Is there a way to turn off the auto join with the free hand tool/ I am trying to sketch and need to do lots of small free hand dots and marks for depth and it is driving me crazy trying to just do a small dot with my Bamboo pen. It keeps joining and making lines- Argghh- I've gone into options and played around with the freehand tool settings but can't find anywhere to just turn it of completely,
Would appreciate any help
Hi Lisa
You were at the right place.
lisa Young said:Argghh- I've gone into options and played around with the freehand tool settings but can't find anywhere to just turn it of completely,
You need to change the threshhold setting. See the image.
Thanks Anand - I have had a look at that now and can take it to one pixel- I guess what I am wanting is - you know in windows paint- the basic accessory paint pad, in it you just draw and when you put you pen down just for a dot it can do that, in Corel it wants to know where the line ends. what if I just want it to be a dot-rather than a really short line or tiny drawn circle- can the auto-join be completely turned off?
Unfortunately auto Join cannot be put off completely. I am curious to know, do you really need such a small gap (even less than 1 pixel) between the two nodes. I have never faced such a situation. Any way wrok around for this could be : Select the node with shape tool > right click > Break Apart.This will break the joined node into two nodes making the path open.
lisa Young said:what if I just want it to be a dot-rather than a really short line or tiny drawn circle- can the auto-join be completely turned off?
Hi again,
I am sketching straight onto the workpage and am building a book for print for the craft industry with little designs throughout- tiny angels and birdhouses etc. so if I want to add little dots etc for depth and character- sometimes 50 or so dots scattered amogst flowers or around angel wings, it is a real pain to have to stop and break apart each little dot, or to dot on the bamboo and then have to re-dot the same spot to try to keep the elements as confined as possible - as a dot rather than a line.
Could you not use the artistic media tool and create a spraylist?