Grease Pencil Menu

Transform

Strokes can be edited by transforming the locations of points.

Translation, Rotation, Scale

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Mode:Edit Mode
Panel:Toolbar ‣ Tools ‣ Transform
Menu:Grease Pencil ‣ Transform ‣ Move, Rotate, Scale, …
Hotkey: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
Panel: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
Hotkey: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
Hotkey:Shift-S

Mesh snapping also works with Grease Pencil components.

Animation

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Mode:Edit Mode, Draw Mode
Menu:Grease Pencil ‣ Animation

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
Hotkey: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
Hotkey: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
Hotkey: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
Hotkey: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 Strokes

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Mode:Edit Mode
Menu:Grease Pencil ‣ Separate Strokes
Hotkey:P

Separate the selected elements into a new Grease Pencil object.

Selected Points
Separate the selected points into a new Grease Pencil object.
Selected Strokes
Separate the selected strokes into a new Grease Pencil 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 Grease Pencil object. See 2D Layers for more information.

Clean Up

These tools help to cleanup degenerate geometry on the strokes.

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.

Boundary Strokes

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Mode:Edit Mode
Menu:Grease Pencil ‣ Clean Up ‣ Boundary Strokes, Boundary Strokes All Frames

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.

Reproject Strokes

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Mode:Edit Mode
Menu:Grease Pencil ‣ Clean Up ‣ Reproject Strokes

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 Strokes to flatten all the selected strokes from a certain viewpoint.

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.
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Original drawing from the front view.

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Original drawing in the 3D Viewport.

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Strokes reprojected onto the front plane to fix strokes misalignment.

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Drawing after reprojection operation from the front view.

Delete

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Mode:Edit Mode
Menu:Grease Pencil ‣ Delete
Hotkey: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.