Editing of freehand curves not supported?

Following the online instructions for editing seems to only allow translating the entire curve, not points within the curve.

http://help.sketchup.com/en/sketchup/drawing-freehand-shapes

AFAIK my problem is specific to iPad, so I posted in that topic.

The freehand tool is not creating curves like beziers or such like other programs. In fact, when it works well what you actually get is a fancy line, not a series of adjustable curves with points.

However, looking at the instructions that you reference, I think it is working for me as I would expect? Much the same way that a single line or geometry would react to having a point moved.

Does that help?

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I’m very clear that it’s a line string, not a bezier or other spline. What doesn’t seem to work is the editing section at the bottom of that page. The move tool does not edit the end points (i.e. change the length) as I expect from reading the instructions, but rather it translates the entire linestring.

Example: I use the Freehand tool to draw a spiral on the face of a rectangle. It seems like surely the center of the spiral does not bound a face. When I select the Move Tool and hover over the center point of the spiral the green dot appears as expected. When I touch the pencil to it and draw a short distance the point is not moved relative to the spiral as expected, rather the entire spiral is moved.

Editing a freehand curve

You can change the length of a freehand curve entity as long as it doesn’t bound a face. To edit a curve, follow these steps:

  1. Select the Move tool ().
  2. Hover the cursor over the curve to locate an end point.
  3. Click and drag the end point to adjust the curve and release the mouse when you’re done.

Oh, I think I see what’s going on now! It’s not translating the entire geometry, apparently it scales and rotates the entire geometry to fit to the new endpoint(s)! I think maybe the instructions could be more clear on this. Based on the instructions I was expecting only the endpoints to be editable, and the rest would be static.

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