Cutter Tool Properties

Allows you to choose the method to visually select multiple elements:

• Lasso: Allows you to select multiple elements by drawing an irregular closed shape around them with your mouse.
• Marquee: Allows you to select multiple elements by drawing a rectangle around them. This is faster, as you only need to drag your mouse from one corner of the rectangle to its opposite corner, but it may not be as precise as you want.

When enabled, you can drag the selection by clicking anywhere inside its bounding box. By default, you must click on the artwork in the selection to be able to drag it.

When this option is enabled along with the Lasso selection type, quickly drawing a line with the Cutter tool over a line segment in your artwork will instantly delete it. This can be useful if you want to use the Cutter tool to quickly clean up your artwork.

It allows you to cut in two modes as follows:

• Single Line Cutting Gesture: It deletes first line segment over which a straight gesture is drawn with the cutter.
• Multiple Lines Cutting Gesture: It deletes all line segments over which a straight gesture is drawn with the cutter.

When using the Lasso selection type, the Use Mouse Gesture Breaker Mode option lets you draw an invisible stroke on a pencil line to cut it in two individual objects. Once a pencil line is cut with this option, you will be able to select the two portions independently with either the Cutter tool, Pencil Editor tool or Select tool.

When cutting through pencil lines, this option decides what kind of pencil line tips to put at the extremities of the remaining pencil line segments, where they were cut.

By default, this is set to Bevel , which will leave the tip of the pencil line cut at the same angle as your cutter stroke. If you prefer, you can make pencil lines that you split with the Cutter tool have Flat or Round tips instead.

When working on bitmap artwork, enabling this will smooth the edges of the artwork you cut out, so that they do not appear pixelated.

This option allows you to select which layers the tool should affect. It can be toggled on or off. When toggled on, it has two different modes. You can select a mode by clicking and holding on the button.

• Off: When this button is toggled off, the tool only works on the currently selected layers. If several layers are selected, the tool will work on all these layers simultaneously.
• Apply to Visible Drawing Layers: The tool will work on all the visible layers in the Camera view.
• Apply to Synced Drawing Layers: If the currently selected layer is synced with another layer, the tool will work on both the current layer and its synced layer.

This option allows you to determine which drawings in the current layer the tool should affect. It can be toggled on or off. When toggled on, it has two different modes. You can select a mode by clicking and holding on the button.

• Off: When this button is toggled off, the tool only works on the drawing in the current frame.
• Apply to All Frames: The tool will work on every exposed drawing in the selected layer simultaneously.
• Apply to Onion Skin Range: The tool will work on every drawing displayed in the Onion Skin. Onion Skin must be enabled for this option to work.