Grease Pencil Menu¶
Transform¶
Strokes can be edited by transforming the locations of points.
Translation, Rotation, Scale¶
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Mode: | Edit Mode |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Menu: | Grease Pencil ‣ Animation |
The stroke animation tools are described in the Animation section.
Interpolation¶
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Mode: | Edit Mode, Draw Mode |
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Menu: | Grease Pencil ‣ Interpolation |
The stroke animation tools are described in the Animation section.
Duplicate¶
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Mode: | Edit Mode |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Menu: | Grease Pencil ‣ Clean Up ‣ Delete Loose Points |
Removes unconnected points.
Merge by Distance¶
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Mode: | Edit Mode |
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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 |
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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 |
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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.
Delete¶
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Mode: | Edit Mode |
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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.