The NEW Curve Pen Tool

Taking a tour of the new curve pen tool in Blender 3.2 and the shortcuts to use it most effectively.

[Saddy_Longlegs]

This channel is absolutely underrated, I could never get a hang of the old way. This will be great for low poly or literally anything else!

[theunaimedarrow]

I'm watching this 2 years later when we now have draw on surfaces. It is really good.

[umpoucodetudoealgumacoisa]

Reminds me of an addon I've been using for quite a while now but with some interesting extra shortcuts.

The addon is Flexi Edit Bezier tool and it pretty much also covers everything you suggested at the end of the video: grid snapping and face snapping

But another thing that I like about it is that you don't need to create a curve object and delete everything in edit mode before you start. Just click on the tool, click on the viewport and it will create a new object. It also helps to build any type of curve too (like circles, nurbs curves, etc)

It's a huge time saver and I really recommend it :) At least while Blender's native tool gets developed further

[MrHahajoe]

amazing and easy to follow tutorial. Saved me so much time, thank you!

[RealGaryGibson]

I just discovered the Curve Pen Tool. Thanks for this great tutorial!

[chuckle]

Use the Draw tool just above the Curve Pen tool, does exactly what you ask for, and have an option (on the upper left corner when tool is activated) to be on Cursor or Surfacewith the bezier curve.
Your video is excellent I have learned so much, Thank you!

[manukrafter]

Oh this is just OP! Goodbye Abode subscription! I no longer need AI for vector tracing!

[dudleybarker]

brilliant - this is a proper vector editing tool which is going to make life so much easier - thanks for this

[StevenDoye]

Just finished a model that I had to use curves with. I'm so pissed I didn't see this video first😂. You got a new subscriber👍.

[kevinhouse]

Great rundown of this new tool. That decimate modifier tip is great as well! Sub'd.

[noistruct.]

great tutorial! quick and straigh to the point.

[SaS-Music]

Thank you very much. This is great. Love your work!

[DeathDealer-DD]

maybe there's a way but tricky, didn't tried it yet...by creating a plane and shrink wrap it on the surface, reshape it the way you want, and then extract the edges and convert it to curve then bevel it with whatever profile you want. blender is doing great but still some limitations to the tools it has, like mirroring a rotated object away from the world center (like in x and y axis area)...i don't know but that's another subject to discover...thank you for the video

[ericman]

Thank you for the excellent video going through the tool in depth. Clear concise and informative. Well done.
In the video @12:00 You talk about the desire to create curve objects that snap to the surface of the mesh to generate like cables and ropes etc. It would be amazing if the Blender folks would get to gether with Sergey Kritskiy the creator of 'Cablerator' which I very highly recommend. I actually highly recommend trying out all of his tools actually. He creates addons and scripts for both Blender and Photoshop, that guy is a magician.
After seeing you demo the curve pen tool I was thinking it would be very handy to somehow mix the option to 'grid fill' when generating the mesh. Freeform creation of geometry with a tool like the curve pen tool and then quickly ending up with clean quad geometry in the end is the dream.

[MojPejo]

I worship you, you are one of the best gods of Blender.😍😍😍😍❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[lameru]

I wanted there to be a way to extrude without creating another loop from a point/subdivision. Basically, I wanted to create a structure for butterfly wings but am going to try the curve point/skin modifier and eye the curves instead. Plan on adding the cloth simulation to the structure since I need to be able to fold the wings some to go from a pupa stage to a butterfly.

[suburbanview]

Wow, for the point of view of an Illustrator guy, this is a pretty good 3D pen tool!

[fleabillydesign]

Great info… question…
Is there a hotkey to convert handles so that they are equal. To turn a square curve into a round curve… similar to illustrator ? Cheers

[KaramAlayan]

after 2 years do you know of any add ons that added the first feature where the vertex perfectly aligns with the closest point ? amazing video btw

[unkatom]

Overall, as a Ol’ Bezier hound i’m very happy!

One thing though, I’m having trouble with the “filled circle” workaround… there seems to be a difference in our menus… do you have additions or free extras installed?