Why Can't I Draw A Straight Line On My Touch Screen?

3 Ways to Draw a Straight Line

A Concepts Tutorial for iOS

At that place isn't a incorrect mode to draw a line in Concepts. Pick 1 that goes with your menses.

Concepts lets you design in many ways, from freehand sketching to more structured drawing. Check out three ways to draw a straight line, and why each one might work all-time for your project.

1. Set your pen to 100% smoothing and draw instant straight lines.

Whether yous add a little or a lot of smoothing to your brush, you'll get instantly smoother results. When y'all increase the smoothing to 100%, every stroke turns into a perfect, directional line that follows the tip of your stylus or finger.

Tap the squiggle icon on the inner band of the tool wheel and slide the preset slider all the way to 100%.

•Depict immediate straight lines that follow the direction of your stylus.

•If y'all've already drawn a line without smoothing and want to apply it afterward, select the line and straighten it with the slider.

•Open up the Precision menu and tap Mensurate for a ruler that measures live as you draw. If you set a calibration to your cartoon (Settings > Drawing Scale), the scale volition apply to the ruler.

2. Tap an editable line onto the canvas from the Object Library.

Objects are a fast fashion to build structures and design layouts. Tap or elevate a line object onto the canvas and edit or position it with natural gestures.

To discover the Line object, tap the Import menu to expand the object library and tap "More than" to open up the Object Marketplace. Tap the Bones Shapes library (free with Essentials or Subscription) to activate information technology on your canvas. And then tap or drag a line onto your canvas. The line volition appear selected and set up to edit.

•Pinch or expand your fingers to lengthen or shorten the line.

•Toggle between Scale and Stretch in the Choice menu at the bottom of the screen to change or keep the line weight.

•Rotate the line with two fingers, or lock rotation by turning it to Off in the Selection menu. Tap+hold the angle value in the status bar to rotate it an exact number of degrees.

•Change the line's brush type but by borer a new tool. Change its weight past resizing the tool. Modify its color past opening the color wheel and tapping a new colour.

3. Utilise the Line guide to trace lines or edit with handles.

The Line guide is helpful for projects that need precision sketching. Use it for outlining plans, applying custom measurements, and designing products that crave exact angles and lengths.

To detect the Line guide, tap the Precision carte du jour and open the Guide options. Tap the Line guide to activate it. Trace the guide by drawing anywhere on the sail.

•Leave the guide equally an space line, or double-tap the crosshairs to incorporate information technology to the length between the handles.

•Rotate just one side of the guide by tapping on a handle and moving information technology. Rotate more freely past rotating ii fingers on the screen. Or lock rotation by turning it to Off in the Selection menu.

•Tap+hold the angle value in the status bar to rotate the guide an exact number of degrees.

•Tap Measure to employ live measurements to your line while cartoon.

•Tap+hold the measurement tag to customize your line length.

•Tap a measurement tag to stick information technology to the screen.

Questions? Please email us at support@concepts.app or head in-app to Help > Ask U.s.a. Anything. We're happy to chat.

By Erica Christensen