Painting tool request- Straight line drawing tool

Bambu Lab Software Feature Requests
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Often times I could really use a line tool to assist in some painting tasks. I’m not referring to layers, seams, etc. Just painting with a line tool.

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I was going to make a post about this, this would be a great feauture.

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Not ideal, but it works:

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I had no freakin’ idea lol. Thank you!

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Thank you!!! I just watched the vid and somehow I’ve never noticed they added that.

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This post is neat! Thank you guys for uncovering this feature

Issue - Only painting vertical or horizontal takes a lot of time!! With my recent ’ Universal Auto-Rewind Spool Holder’ print from Thingiverse, for example, painting the numbers & lines from that Clutch took almost twenty minutes!

Feature Request - Can we draw straight lines when painting a surface similar to how GIMP draw’s straight lines between points for its Pen? Here you just hold the Shift key and a straight line is lightly displayed for your selection

For consideration!! I feel this feature would be a benefit to your users painting complex surfaces

Thanks,
Justin :smiling_face:

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Please add a straight line tool, shift/draw, and the option to duplicate, or copy and flip that line to make an object symetrical.

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I’m just chiming in here to add my support for this. I am mostly interested in additional functionality for seam painting, but the same features would work for regular painting too. I like the way this is implemented in Photoshop, and suggest the same or similar UX.

In Photoshop, if you use the brush tool and hold shift, you can paint straight lines in two ways.

  1. Click and drag - this will draw a line either constrained vertically or horizontally.
  2. Click, release and then click again somewhere else - this will draw a line between the two points.

You can use both methods at the same time, just by either clicking or dragging - it’s very intuitive and fast to create more complex shapes like irregular polygons which would be very handy for creating precise seams, even on curved objects - it’s much easier to approximate a curve with lots of short straight lines than by freehanding it, and less cumbersome than needing to re-orient the model to use the “vertical” option.

I also wanted to note a couple of previous threads calling for this (or similar requests):