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when pen tool does all what freehand, bezier & polyline tools can. Why they have been kept ?

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pkg_sriram Posted: Wed, Jul 8 2009 3:40

Hai all

I have been wondering some types of tools are repeated with some minor changes only.  The pend tool does all what freehand, bezier & polyline tool does, except they can be drawn freely and there is nothing special in it.   freehand is somewhat better.  Bezier is same as pen tool and polyline also. 

 

I recommend to include perfect circles using CIRCLE BEZIER tool which works similar to pen tool except perfect circles can be drawn using it. 

 

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ram

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pkg_sriram:
I recommend to include perfect circles using CIRCLE BEZIER tool which works similar to pen tool except perfect circles can be drawn using it. 

What not use Ellipse tool and CTRL key to make perfect circles?

Smart Drawing tool also can make perfect circles for you from hand drawn ones that may not be perfect.

Dear sir

you took it differently sir, what i mean is that when you draw a pen line, often need to have some perfect circles and this could not be achieved by manually drawing the tangents and bringing it to the nearer circle and not the exact circle.  Please find the attachment for the perfect circles are marked in a red color.  I think the polyline & bezier tools are not required. Even smart drawing tool also as what freehand tool does.  Nothing great about except just repeated some slight changes sir.

 

 

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ram


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Good Idea Ram.

If you like, after discussing your ideas, you can add the resulting requests in the Feature Request Forum.

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pkg_sriram:
I have been wondering some types of tools are repeated with some minor changes only.  The pend tool does all what freehand, bezier & polyline tool does, except they can be drawn freely and there is nothing special in it.   freehand is somewhat better.  Bezier is same as pen tool and polyline also. 

 

That's for help some users, specially for begginers or users of other programs (Freehand, Photoshop, Illustrator...) who needs a friendly tools. most users have problems doing a double click with the freehand tool, and the results is a several lines, not a closed object. I allways uses the Freehand tool only but no all people works in the same way

 

pkg_sriram:
I recommend to include perfect circles using CIRCLE BEZIER tool which works similar to pen tool except perfect circles can be drawn using it. 

Good idea, actually you can use a circle or ellipse with a closed object for do it (trim or weld) but does not work with "open" lines. I suppose the best way is to use the ellipse tool for modify the line but made it automatically

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I don't use the Polyline tool that much (mainly because I haven't tested it that much), but the Bézier tool is very important for my workflow. The advantage that I find to it, is that with the appropriate keyboard combinations for defining node types, I can create precise shapes without doing it freehand and then losing time refining my nodes.

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What you are looking for is a tool that acts like the line drawing tool in any digitizing software for embroidery. This would be so sweet if it were available in CDR. How it works is if you left click on points you get a straight line. But if you right click between points it creates a perfect arc. As a result you can make these perfectly smooth shapes just by continually right clicking. If you know anyone with digitizing software have them demo this standard feature of their software. You will be impressed.

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