Selection after drawing

When drawing with the freehand line tool, at the completion of a line, it is automatically selected.

The nodes are often in the way of what would be the starting point for the next line I'd like to draw.

Is there an easy way to prevent this?

  • I don't know a way to have it automatically deselect the curve after drawing it, but I have used a macro assigned to a keyboard shortcut to get a one-keystroke deselect.

    See this thread.

    Once upon a time, the Esc key worked for that in CorelDraw, and it still does for many tools - but not for the freehand tool. At the moment, I have the "`" key assigned to the deselection macro.

  • normal ops.
    as a workaround hit space bar, esc, space bar
    could make a macro and assign a keyboard shortcut as suggested by Eskimo.