Polyline Tool Properties
When you select the Polyline tool, its properties and options appear in the Tool Properties view.
Pencil Properties
Icon | Property | Description |
Preview Area |
The Preview area lets you see a preview of the stroke your drawing tool will make.
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Pencil Properties Dialog |
The arrow button right of the preview area opens the Pencil Properties dialog.
While the Tool Properties view only gives you access to the pencil size, a list of pencil presets and other drawing options, the Pencil Properties dialog gives you access to all the available options for your pencil's shape and texture. For more information on the Pencil Properties dialog, see the Polyline Tool Properties section below. |
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Size |
Defines the width of the pencil line used to draw the shape. |
Pencil Presets
Icon | Property | Description |
Presets list |
Harmony provides a variety of presets and also lets you create and save your own. It is a good idea to create and save pencils with precise sizes and parameters when you draw and design for efficiency and consistency. All tools using pencil lines share the same preset list. Therefore, the Polyline, Line, Rectangle, Ellipse, and Pencil tools share the same preset list. |
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New Preset |
Creates a new preset based on the current brush properties. |
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Delete Preset |
Deletes the currently selected preset. |
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Presets Menu | Gives access to more options for managing presets. | |
Rename Brush |
Deletes the currently selected preset. |
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Import Brushes |
Allows you to import brush presets exported from Harmony. |
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Export Brushes |
Allows you to export your brush presets into an .xml file. |
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Small Thumbnail | Displays presets in a grid of small thumbnails with a preview of their tip. | |
Large Thumbnail | Displays presets in a grid of big thumbnails, with their name and a preview of their tip. | |
Stroke View |
Displays presets in a list, with their name and a preview of a stroke done with each preset. This is the default setting. |
Drawing Options
Icon | Property | Description |
Snap to Contour | Snaps your selection or point to any line you position it on. As soon as you move it close enough to another line, your point or selection will snap to it. | |
Auto Fill |
When enabled, drawing a closed shape will automatically fill it with the currently selected
TIPBy default the pencil line and its fill will be the same colour. If you want to select different colours for the pencil line and its fill, you can click on the Unlock Three Colours button in the Colour view, then select different colours for Brush strokes , Pencil lines and Paint fills .
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Trim Extra Lines |
When enabled, drawing a closed shape will automatically remove the outstanding lines.
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Align Handles After Trim |
When the Trim Extra Lines option is enabled, enable this option to make the point where the beginning and end of the stroke meet into a smooth curve rather than a hard corner.
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Automatically Create Colour Art |
As you draw in the Line Art layer, the Automatically Create Colour Art option instantly creates the corresponding strokes in the Colour Art layer.
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Auto-Flatten Mode |
By default, when drawing
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Using the Select tool, you can use select and remove a segment of flattened pencil lines. Overlapping pencil lines drawn with the Auto-Flatten mode are essentially cut into segments by the overlap and can be treated as individual lines. |
Pencil Properties Dialog
The Polyline tool draws the same type of line as the Pencil tool. Hence, you can configure the Polyline tool's lines using the Pencil Properties dialog, which you can open by clicking on the arrow button right of the stroke display area in the Tool Properties view.
Size and Smoothness Tab
The Size and Smoothness tab allows you to select your pencil's size, its smoothing parameters as well as the shape of its tips and corners.
Tool Name | Description |
Maximum Size | Defines the maximum size of the pencil line. If the tool is used with a pressure sensitive pen tablet, the width of the stroke will vary between its maximum size and minimum size depending on the amount of pressure used. If used with a mouse, the width of the stroke will always be its maximum size. |
Minimum Size |
Defines the minimum size of your stroke as a percentage of the maximum size. If you do not have pressure sensitivity from a pen table, the minimum size value will be ignored. |
Smoothing | Defines the number of control points added to the centre line. The fewer the control points the smoother (but less faithful) the line. |
Contour Smoothing | Defines the number of points on the contour share of your stroke. This will smooth out the bumps and waves on tour contour shape of your brush strokes. |
Shape |
You can adjust the start, end, and join style of a pencil line.
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Texture Tab
In the Pencil Properties view, the Texture tab allows you to select a pencil texture from the currently selected pencil texture palette to use with the Pencil tool. You can also add, remove or rename textures, save the current pencil texture palette as the default one, or import the pencil texture palette into your scene.
The pencil texture palette used in the Texture tab of the Pencil Properties dialog is the one selected in the Colour view. You can select a pencil texture palette by selecting it from the pencil texture palette list in the Colour view—see Colour View.
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Use as Default Pencil Texture Palette |
Sets the currently selected pencil texture palette as the default pencil texture palette in your user preferences. The default pencil texture palette is added to every scene you create in Harmony. The palette is copied in your preferences, so it will be added to your new scenes in the exact state it is when you make it the default pencil texture palette. |
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Reload Default Texture Palette |
Imports the default pencil texture palette as a new pencil texture palette into your scene's palette list, and selects it as the current pencil texture palette. |
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New Texture |
Allows you to import an image file into a new pencil texture swatch in the current pencil texture palette. The pencil texture's effect on your pencil line will be based on the image's transparency channel, and will follow your pencil lines on its horizontal axis. |
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Delete Texture | Deletes a pencil texture swatch from the current pencil texture palette. | |
Rename Texture | Renames the selected pencil texture swatch in the current pencil texture palette. | |
Pencil Texture List |
Displays the pencil textures in the current pencil texture palette and allows you to select one to use with the Pencil tool. |
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Pencil Texture Palette | Displays the name of the currently selectedpencil texture palette, for reference. To select a different pencil texture palette, you must select it in the Colour view—see Colour View. |