the problem is the starting and stopping is incredibly inefficient in Rhino.

Anyhow, I understand that you can make any sort of line segment in Rhino, and the tangent, blend, arc, interpolate, etc are all incredible tools, but your handle curve tool can not compare and does not compare to Illustrator pen tool, Affinity designer pen tool, Inkscape pen tool, etc.

The developers in their forums will not listen, so I will again try my luck here. I am currently learning Fusion 360, and the line tool in that program is crude compared to the array of curve tools in Rhino3D. If not, I'll do the tracing in PS and export the paths to AI instead and only use AI when I'm drawing something new.I am back two years later to readdress the need for a tool like the Pen Tool in Illustrator. They don't seem to answer the direct question: Can I get the regular pen tool to behave like it does in PS? I've already read Adobe articles like this one. I specifically want to be able to curve an already completed line in a path after the fact in the way I've shown. I know I can click and drag as I create points to curve lines with the pen tool. I'm manually tracing over my old sketches and I'm not going to constantly switch back and forth between pen and curvature. Only if I double click and drag the point with the curvature tool does it curve the way I want like SAMPLE D.ĭouble clicking the anchor point to switch the line between curved and straight only seems to work with the curvature tool. It brings it to a sharp point like SAMPLE C. SAMPLE A is what I want to do with the pen tool in AI.īUT in Illustrator, if I try to do the same thing with the pen tool, adding a point then clicking CTRL and dragging it, it doesn't curve the line. If I don't hold CTRL when I click to drag the point, it instead curves up from the the ends like SAMPLE B. If I hold CTRL when I click to drag the point, which turns the pen tool into a direct selection tool, it curves the line where I drag it like SAMPLE A. In Photoshop, if I draw a line with the pen tool (one anchor point to the other) and I later decide I want to curve that line, I can do that easily by adding another point to the line. I'm more used to the way the pen tool works in Photoshop than in Illustrator and I want to know if what I'm trying to do is possible.

Please read my post before responding, not just the title.

Illustrator curve tool