Pencil tool only makes semi circles

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Duck
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Pencil tool only makes semi circles

Postby Duck » Mon Nov 23, 2015 5:12 am

Whenever i try to draw a curve with the pencil tool, it makes it into this big ass ugly semi circle, Why?

Lazur
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Re: Pencil tool only makes semi circles

Postby Lazur » Mon Nov 23, 2015 5:15 am

Make sure the tool is in normal mode and not switched to spiro mode.

http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Paths-Creating.html#Paths-Pencil

Duck
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Re: Pencil tool only makes semi circles

Postby Duck » Mon Nov 23, 2015 6:06 am

Lazur URH wrote:Make sure the tool is in normal mode and not switched to spiro mode.

http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Paths-Creating.html#Paths-Pencil



Afraid that did nothing, now it is only creating super thin straight lines that i can't change the width of or a massive circle which is like 10x the size of the canvas

Moini
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Re: Pencil tool only makes semi circles

Postby Moini » Mon Nov 23, 2015 6:33 am

Also make sure 'Shape' is set to 'None'.
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