Grease Pencil Menu

Transform

Strokes can be edited by transforming the locations of points.

Move, Rotate & Scale

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Mode:

Edit Mode

Tool:

Toolbar ‣ Move, Rotate, Scale

Menu:

Grease Pencil ‣ Transform ‣ Move, Rotate, Scale

Shortcut:

G, R, S

Like other elements in Blender, points and strokes can be moved G, rotated R or scaled S as described in the Basic Transformations section. When in Edit Mode, Proportional Editing is also available for the transformation actions.

Transform Snapping

Basic move, rotate and scale transformations for selected points/strokes. See Move, Rotate, Scale Basics for more information.

Tools

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Mode:

Edit Mode

Menu:

Grease Pencil ‣ Transform

Tool:

Toolbar ‣ Bend/Shear

The Bend, Shear, To Sphere, Extrude and Shrink Fatten transform tools are described in the Editing tools section.

Mirror

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Mode:

Edit Mode

Menu:

Grease Pencil ‣ Mirror

Shortcut:

Ctrl-M

The Mirror tool is also available, behaving exactly the same as with mesh vertices.

Snap

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Mode:

Edit Mode

Menu:

Grease Pencil ‣ Snap

Shortcut:

Shift-S

Mesh snapping also works with Grease Pencil components.

Active Layer

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Mode:

Edit Mode, Draw Mode

Menu:

Grease Pencil ‣ Active Layer

Shortcut:

Y

Select the active layer.

Animation

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Mode:

Edit Mode, Draw Mode

Menu:

Grease Pencil ‣ Animation

Shortcut:

I

The stroke animation tools are described in the Animation section.

Interpolation

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Mode:

Edit Mode, Draw Mode

Menu:

Grease Pencil ‣ Interpolation

The stroke animation tools are described in the Animation section.

Duplicate

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Mode:

Edit Mode

Menu:

Grease Pencil ‣ Duplicate

Shortcut:

Shift-D

Duplicates the selected elements, without creating any connections with the rest of the strokes (unlike Extrude, for example), and places the duplicate at the location of the original elements.

Split

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Mode:

Edit Mode

Menu:

Grease Pencil ‣ Split

Shortcut:

V

Splits (disconnects) the selected points from the rest of the stroke. The separated points are left exactly at the same position as the original points but they belong to a new stroke.

Copy

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Mode:

Edit Mode

Menu:

Grease Pencil ‣ Copy

Shortcut:

Ctrl-C

Copy the selected points/strokes to the clipboard.

Paste & Paste by Layer

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Mode:

Edit Mode

Menu:

Grease Pencil ‣ Paste, Grease Pencil ‣ Paste by Layer

Shortcut:

Ctrl-V

Type

Paste to Active

Pastes the points/strokes copied from the clipboard into the active layer. This is the default behavior and the mode used when using Grease Pencil ‣ Paste.

Paste by Layer

Pastes the points/strokes copied from the clipboard into the layer they were copied from.

Separate

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Mode:

Edit Mode

Menu:

Grease Pencil ‣ Separate

Shortcut:

P

Separate the selected elements into a new Grease Pencil object.

Selected Points

Separate the selected points into a new object.

Selected Strokes

Separate the selected strokes into a new object. If one point of a stroke is selected, the entire stroke will be separated.

Active Layer

Separate all the strokes in the active layer into a new object. See 2D Layers for more information.

Clean Up

These tools help to cleanup degenerate geometry on the strokes.

Boundary Strokes

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Mode:

Edit Mode

Menu:

Grease Pencil ‣ Clean Up ‣ Boundary Strokes

Removes boundary strokes used by the Fill tool. See Fill tool for more information.

Mode

Active Frame Only

Removes boundary strokes from the current frame.

All Frames

Removes boundary strokes from all frames.

Boundary Strokes All Frames

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Mode:

Edit Mode

Menu:

Grease Pencil ‣ Clean Up ‣ Boundary Strokes all Frames

Same as Boundary Strokes but Mode is set to All Frames.

Delete Loose Points

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Mode:

Edit Mode

Menu:

Grease Pencil ‣ Clean Up ‣ Delete Loose Points

Removes unconnected points.

Merge by Distance

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Mode:

Edit Mode

Menu:

Grease Pencil ‣ Clean Up ‣ Merge by Distance

Merge by Distance is a useful tool to simplify a stroke by merging the selected points that are closer than a specified distance to each other. Note, unless using Unselected, selected points must be contiguous, else they will not be merged.

Merge Distance

Sets the distance threshold for merging points.

Unselected

Allows points in selection to be merged with unselected points. When disabled, selected points will only be merged with other selected ones.

Delete Duplicate Frames

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Mode:

Edit Mode

Menu:

Grease Pencil ‣ Clean Up ‣ Delete Duplicate Frames

Removes any duplicate keyframes.

Reproject

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Mode:

Edit Mode

Menu:

Grease Pencil ‣ Clean Up ‣ Reproject

Sometimes you may have drawn strokes unintentionally in different locations in the 3D space but they look right from a certain plane or from the camera view. You can use Reproject to flatten all the selected strokes from a certain viewpoint.

Reprojected Type

Front:

Reproject selected strokes onto the front plane (XZ).

Side:

Reproject selected strokes onto the side plane (YZ).

Top:

Reproject selected strokes onto the top plane (XY).

View:

Reproject selected strokes onto the current view.

Surface:

Reproject selected strokes onto the mesh surfaces.

Cursor:

Reproject selected strokes onto 3D cursor rotation.

Surface Offset

When Surface Mode is activated controls the stroke offset from the object.

Keep Original

Maintains the original strokes after applying the tool.

Original drawing from the front view.

Original drawing in the 3D Viewport.

Strokes reprojected onto the front plane to fix strokes misalignment.

Drawing after reprojection operation from the front view.

Recalculate Geometry

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Mode:

Edit Mode and Draw Mode

Menu:

Grease Pencil ‣ Clean Up ‣ Recalculate Geometry

This operator updates all internal geometry data. It is not intended that you will have to use this operator but it can help in cases where strokes are drawn in a strange way or when you opened an old file.

Delete

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Mode:

Edit Mode

Menu:

Grease Pencil ‣ Delete

Shortcut:

X, Delete, Ctrl-X

Options for the Erase pop-up menu:

Points

Deletes the selected points. When only one point remains, there is no more visible stroke, and when all points are deleted, the stroke itself is deleted.

Strokes

Deletes all the strokes that selected points belongs to.

Frames

Deletes all the strokes at the current frame and in the current layer/channel.

Dissolve Ctrl-X

Deletes the selected points without splitting the stroke. The remaining points in the strokes stay connected.

Dissolve between Ctrl-X

Deletes all the points between the selected points without splitting the stroke. The remaining points in the strokes stay connected.

Dissolve Unselect Ctrl-X

Deletes all the points that are not selected in the stroke without splitting the stroke. The remaining points in the strokes stay connected.

Delete All Active Frames

Deletes all the strokes at the current frame in all layers/channels.