Disable control points in sketched lines?

[feklee]

The last line drawn with the Freehand and Brush tool shows control points:



I find them confusing. Is it possible to disable control points altogether when sketching?

Anyhow, I wonder what is perhaps a better tool than Xara to do vector sketching. Definitely missing is the ability to draw points, i.e. as short lines, with the click of the mouse button / touch of the stylus.

[Christine Farrelly]

If you just want to click to add nodes (points) then the shape editor tool would be the one to use, or the straight line tool.

[feklee]

shape editor tool would be the one to use, or the straight line tool.

I don’t understand your response: How can you sketch with these?

[wizard509]

The last line drawn with the Freehand and Brush tool shows control points:



I find them confusing. Is it possible to disable control points altogether when sketching?

Anyhow, I wonder what is perhaps a better tool than Xara to do vector sketching. Definitely missing is the ability to draw points, i.e. as short lines, with the click of the mouse button / touch of the stylus.

Not as far as I know.
The last one shows the control points so you cn latch onto one and continue the line or but shift selecting another you can join the lines to make one continuous line.

[Acorn]

They control points only appear when you release the mouse select button . At this point (!), press the Esc key.

Acorn

[feklee]

They control points only appear when you release the mouse select button . At this point (!), press the Esc key.

I don’t want to touch the keyboard when doing quick sketches. IMHO sketching should be as close as possible to using pen and paper. The problem with control points is that, especially when dense, they obscure the shape of the last drawn curve. This makes it hard, for example, to precisely position the next curve. All in all, sketching with Xara is not fun.

[Acorn]

I don’t want to touch the keyboard when doing quick sketches. IMHO sketching should be as close as possible to using pen and paper. The problem with control points is that, especially when dense, they obscure the shape of the last drawn curve. This makes it hard, for example, to precisely position the next curve. All in all, sketching with Xara is not fun.

Then stop holding the select button and click with it once somewhere else and release.

If not that, then zoom in closer.

Acorn

[feklee]

Then stop holding the select button and click with it once somewhere else and release.

Clicking after each line stroke? I want to sketch like with pen and paper, i.e. fast!

[Fred C]

@feklee
What Xara program are you running?

Load XaReg http://xara-users.info/xr2help/xr2/XaReg2.zip and choose your program.
Under Mouse tab:

Chk Auto deselect

[mwenz]

While the control points are not hidden, have you tried using the Sketch Mode button set to on? It at least prevents successive lines from connecting to each other when start/end points overlap. You could also set the handle size to its smallest size which they then are far less obtrusive.

For either of those things, one must either edit the registry or use XaReg to set them (which is what I use).