You can either deselect by hitting enter to end the Path - then "S" followed by esc or clicking with node tool enabled somewhere on the canvas if that´s what you want.
Not fit for drawing tablet. When i try to draw some lines located nearby it catches snappoint and make unwanted lines... Maybe i can tu turn off it somewhere in settings/config files?
Then you need to go to "Select-tool" and click on the canvas to deselect.
Thank you for answer, but i need literally 'turn off auto select', same as using 'calligraphy pen' tool - so i could be able to draw many lines without additional clicks on other buttons.
I´m still not sure about your workflow and have more question than answers.
a. Are you trying to use Inkscape with a drawing tablet without keyboard and though no shortcuts?
b. How do you finish a path?
c. How do you make straight lines followed by curvy segments?
With my Wacom I can finish a path by clicking an Express key simulating a double-click - I don´t need to de-select anything to draw ahead when I don´t start at an explicit endpoint - which turns red by hoovering.
I'm using microsoft surface 7, with microsoft pen, without keyboard (only screen-keyboard), for making fast sketches, like as attached image.
a: exactly
b: when i use 'pencil tool', its enough to move stylus out of screen surface
c: 'pen/bezier tool' - Double tap on screen for unclosed path, tap on start point co finish closed contour
Did you try Adobe illustrator? It has same instrument - pencil, and it allows to turn off auto-select. Therefore it possible to draw very fast many lines in small area, without snap to points. As example - drawing hairs. Its looks like a raster drawing.
With such technique i dont need to use 'solid' objects with fill, only lines, so i dont need to close contour at all. (if it needed i can to convert all lines to shapes with one click)
Then go Preferences->Behavior->Snapping. Uncheck everything and adjust Delay to the max. This way the red highlighting will delayed when you´re quick drawing.
This is extreme and some red endpoints are flashing and will be extended - but it seem snapping can´t be fully dis-"armed":
How puzzling that I never have this problem (Windows 10, pressure-sensitive tablet, Inkscape 1.0.1, pencil tool) even though I do plenty fine hatch work lately. I tried to understand why.
First, it seems like when "Use pressure input" is selected, it's simply not possible to connect one line to the previous line. Ah, so that's one reason I never have the problem, since that's probably my most common drawing mode. Lot of subtle decisions crammed into the Pencil tool.
OTOH, I definitely have drawn hair with pressure sensitivity off and don't recall this being an issue. So, I turned off "Use pressure input", set Shape to "None" and tried drawing with the Pencil tool. No problems. I could snap to the previous line if I wanted to, but I had to work at it.
So then, I thought maybe my settings have tweaked something. So, I set INKSCAPE_PREFERENCES_DIR= to a non-existent directory and tried again. This time, I quickly realized that I run with snapping off most of the time, so I had to reach over and hit that button to turn snapping off (I guess the "%" key does this as well). But after snapping was off, once again, no problem.
So I remain puzzled. The sample drawing the OP gave didn't really look like start/end nodes where that close together. Maybe my eyes are so old that I automatically zoom in a little more if I'm going to be putting things close together, and that makes it less likely I'll connect a start node to a previous line. I dunno, sure seems like I can cram those lines almost touching without an accident, though. Or maybe the OP's hand is so much faster than mine it happens to make accidental connections much more likely (I mean, I get one accident per hundred lines, if that).
Or maybe I just completely misunderstood what the problem is. :-)
Beginners' Questions How to turn off selection after freehand drawing?
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Hello! I'm using inkscape to make sketches with Microsoft Surface, and one thing is creating many troubles during work:
Auto selection of line after freehand drawing by pencil.
Does anybody know how turn it off (nodes for snapping)?
You can either deselect by hitting enter to end the Path - then "S" followed by esc or clicking with node tool enabled somewhere on the canvas if that´s what you want.
Not fit for drawing tablet. When i try to draw some lines located nearby it catches snappoint and make unwanted lines... Maybe i can tu turn off it somewhere in settings/config files?
Snap settings are adjustable in Preferences and Document properties.
So you´re just using the Pen and no keyboard for short-cuts/hot-keys? Then you need to go to "Select-tool" and click on the canvas to deselect.
Thank you for answer, but i need literally 'turn off auto select', same as using 'calligraphy pen' tool - so i could be able to draw many lines without additional clicks on other buttons.
There in no answer yet.
Any ideas?
I´m still not sure about your workflow and have more question than answers.
a. Are you trying to use Inkscape with a drawing tablet without keyboard and though no shortcuts?
b. How do you finish a path?
c. How do you make straight lines followed by curvy segments?
With my Wacom I can finish a path by clicking an Express key simulating a double-click - I don´t need to de-select anything to draw ahead when I don´t start at an explicit endpoint - which turns red by hoovering.
I'm using microsoft surface 7, with microsoft pen, without keyboard (only screen-keyboard), for making fast sketches, like as attached image.
a: exactly
b: when i use 'pencil tool', its enough to move stylus out of screen surface
c: 'pen/bezier tool' - Double tap on screen for unclosed path, tap on start point co finish closed contour
Did you try Adobe illustrator? It has same instrument - pencil, and it allows to turn off auto-select. Therefore it possible to draw very fast many lines in small area, without snap to points. As example - drawing hairs. Its looks like a raster drawing.
With such technique i dont need to use 'solid' objects with fill, only lines, so i dont need to close contour at all. (if it needed i can to convert all lines to shapes with one click)
I was thinking about Bézier-tool in first place. No issue with the Pen-tool here at all. That is real-time:
Pay attention, how far is your starting points from previously finished line. How about this? I have unwanted snap with tablet
Then go Preferences->Behavior->Snapping. Uncheck everything and adjust Delay to the max. This way the red highlighting will delayed when you´re quick drawing.
This is extreme and some red endpoints are flashing and will be extended - but it seem snapping can´t be fully dis-"armed":
Thanks, its not a solution, but quantity of snaps has become less.
Even so - in this version of inkscape is no recipe how to turn off auto select at all?
I updated the above reply #12.
How puzzling that I never have this problem (Windows 10, pressure-sensitive tablet, Inkscape 1.0.1, pencil tool) even though I do plenty fine hatch work lately. I tried to understand why.
First, it seems like when "Use pressure input" is selected, it's simply not possible to connect one line to the previous line. Ah, so that's one reason I never have the problem, since that's probably my most common drawing mode. Lot of subtle decisions crammed into the Pencil tool.
OTOH, I definitely have drawn hair with pressure sensitivity off and don't recall this being an issue. So, I turned off "Use pressure input", set Shape to "None" and tried drawing with the Pencil tool. No problems. I could snap to the previous line if I wanted to, but I had to work at it.
So then, I thought maybe my settings have tweaked something. So, I set INKSCAPE_PREFERENCES_DIR= to a non-existent directory and tried again. This time, I quickly realized that I run with snapping off most of the time, so I had to reach over and hit that button to turn snapping off (I guess the "%" key does this as well). But after snapping was off, once again, no problem.
So I remain puzzled. The sample drawing the OP gave didn't really look like start/end nodes where that close together. Maybe my eyes are so old that I automatically zoom in a little more if I'm going to be putting things close together, and that makes it less likely I'll connect a start node to a previous line. I dunno, sure seems like I can cram those lines almost touching without an accident, though. Or maybe the OP's hand is so much faster than mine it happens to make accidental connections much more likely (I mean, I get one accident per hundred lines, if that).
Or maybe I just completely misunderstood what the problem is. :-)