Line Tool Properties

The Preview area lets you see a preview of the stroke your drawing tool will make.

Harmony provides a few pencil 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 for efficiency and consistency.

You can export the pencil presets that you have created and import those that others have created. This is a good way for you and project collaborators to keep a consistent look for the project.

Creates a new preset based on the current tool properties.

Deletes the currently selected preset.

When enabled, your brush strokes will appear behind the existing artwork.

Allows you to enable or disable snapping for this tool and all other animation and drawing tools that support snapping, as well as to select which types of snapping are enabled.

If you double-click or long-click on this button, it will open a pop-up menu in which you can toggle different snapping modes. You can also click on this button to toggle it off, which will disable all snapping modes, and click on it again and toggle it on to re-enable the snapping modes which were previously enabled.

This tool supports the following snapping modes:

• Snap to Contour: When enabled, while you're drawing, the mouse cursor will automatically snap to the nearby contours of existing artwork, allowing you to draw shapes that connect with other parts of your drawing.

  

  NOTE If you draw a line with the Line tool and make its tip snap to a contour or another control point in your artwork, they will be locked together. You can then manipulate both simultaneously using the Contour Editor tool. You can also separate two drawing strokes that have been snapped together by selecting one of them with the Select tool and moving it away.

• Snap to Alignment Guides: While drawing, the drawing tool will snap against nearby alignment guides—see About Alignment Guides.

• Snap and Align: When enabled, while you're drawing, the mouse cursor will automatically align with the edges of strokes and shapes in your artwork, allowing you to draw shapes that align with parts of your drawing.

  

• When enabled, while you're drawing, the mouse cursor will snap against the intersecting points of the grid.

  TIP To display the grid, select View > Grid > Show Grid from the top menu or press Ctrl + '.

By default, when drawing, each new stroke is created as a separate drawing object, which can be edited independently from other parts of the artwork. When enabled, the Auto-Flatten option automatically merges strokes into existing artwork.

When enabled, small gaps between the pencil lines you draw will be closed by an invisible stroke to make sure your shapes are closed and that they can be filled with the Paint tool.

When drawing contours with pencil lines, the centreline is used to determine whether or not the contour is closed, but the visible tips of the pencil line will extend a bit beyond the tips of its centreline, making it possible to have shapes that appear closed, but are not really. This can prevent the shape from being filled with the Paint tool. Enabling this option when drawing with the Pencil or Line tool will prevent you from leaving invisible gaps in your contours.

Draws a straight line.

In this mode, you can draw curved lines with the following method:

1. Draw the line by clicking and dragging from the start point to the end point of the line, but don’t release the mouse button or pen yet.

   

2. While holding the mouse button or pen down, press and hold the Ctrl (Windows) or ⌘ (macOS) and move the mouse or pen to define the line’s curve.

   

3. Once the line’s curve looks right, release the mouse button or pen.

This mode allows you to draws a simple curved (quadratic Bezier) line in two clicks:

1. Draw the line by clicking and dragging from the start point to the end point of the line.

   

2. Move the mouse or pen to define the curve of the line and click.