And so it was done, which I had no forewarning … because this topic is in the wrong category.
The Corner Bar is not supposed to be about SketchUp products and so I have this category muted to cut down on the “noise”. And did not see this topic revival when it happened.
- Nab, Thank you for moving this to the SketchUp category. (APR 2023)
Regardless, I am not opposed (belatedly) to the simplifying of the Freehand tool.
I dislike when a single tool has diverse uses or output. What usually happens is that these tool output products are lacking robustness or options.
Examples, in my opinion, are the Tape Measure tool both taking measurements and drawing guides with limitations. (We could use this separated into a better Measurement/Query tool and a fully robust Guide drawing tool.)
I also put the Eraser tool into the same group. I’ve never been comfortable with using Eraser to just Soften or Smooth edges. Cramming both erasing and softening into one tool complicates the tool and forces use of tiny cursor overlay icons which are not always intuitive.
So @Mark, because I did not see this topic revival, I could not at the time (FEB 2021) point you toward a “PolyLine / PolyPath” Feature Request that had been discussed for 4 months, a year previous (JAN…MAY 2020) to your reviving this discussion.
In this discussion, after some confusion by some with curves drawn with the FreeHand tool, we got down to talking about all the nifty things we could do with a true poly path tool that creates non-geometric 3D pathways for both annotation (with and without stipple), tool enhancement (with and without inferencing) and extension supplementation.