Snap a brush to a curve

When you are sketching, you can snap a brush to a curve (or surface isoparametric curve or curve-on-surface). This allows you to use curves as sketching guidelines.

  1. With a brush active click the button to the right of the prompt line, or hold down + , to activate curve snapping.

  2. Move the stylus so the brush profile is near the curve.

    The brush profile will jump onto the curve.

    Tip:

    To set the brush curve snap tolerance, choose Preferences > General Preferences , then choose Paint from the left side of the option window, and set Brush Curve Snap Tolerance to the number of pixels the brush cursor must be from a curve in order for the brush profile to jump onto the curve.

  3. Drag the stylus along the curve.

  4. Click the button again, or release + , to de-activate curve snapping.

    Tip:

    You can snap to invisible curves (see ObjectDisplay > Invisible ) or curves on invisible layers (Layers > Visibility > Invisible ).

Parent page: Apply and remove paint using brushes