# Freehand lines aren't smooth!

**URL:** <https://forums.sketchup.com/t/freehand-lines-arent-smooth/48872>\
**Category:** Pro\
**Created:** [July 25, 2017, 10:24am UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/freehand-lines-arent-smooth/48872 "2017-07-25T10:24:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Wo3Dan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/wo3dan/32/7450_2.png) [@Wo3Dan](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/Wo3Dan)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2017, 10:46am UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/freehand-lines-arent-smooth/48872/3 "2017-07-25T10:46:23Z")

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When holding down [Shift] the ‘Freehand’ tool produces an entirely different ‘sort of stubborn’ entity: a 3D-polyline which is hard to select and provides no information for SketchUp’s inferencing engine, hence no intersection.  
Mac or Windows do not matter.  
The tool has never produced smooth curves.

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