Painting a stroke
with an Artisan brush tool is much like painting a stroke with a
paint brush. Select a canvas (select a surface), select a brush
(select an Artisan Tool), apply paint to the brush (define tool
settings), and finally drag your brush across the canvas (surface).
To paint with an Artisan brush
- Select the surface you want to paint.
- Select the Artisan brush tool and open
the Tool Settings editor (Tool
> ).
TipYou can right-click
a surface/object and select a Paint option
from the pop-up menu. Once you right-click an object it becomes
the selection.
- Select a paint Operation and Value and
define other tool specific settings as required. For details, refer
to the documentation specific to the Artisan tool.
- Define any common settings, if required.
See
Artisan Tool Settingsfor details.
- Drag the brush across the surface.
If you drag your brush
along the boundary edges of adjacent surfaces or the seams between
stitched NURBS patches, then the brush will paint on all the pieces
of geometry it is dragged over.
TipYou can make more
accurate brush strokes on a surface, or have an effect on the same
surface’s area again and again by snapping the cursor to the curve
or a curve on the surface. For details, see the next section.
Snap an Artisan paint brush
to an isoparm (NURBS surfaces only)
You
can make more accurate brush strokes on a NURBS surface, or have
an effect on the same surface’s area again and again by snapping
the cursor to the curve or a curve on the surface.
To snap the brush to an isoparm
- Select the surface you want to paint.
- Select the Artisan brush tool.
- Press and hold down the c key on your
keyboard while you do the following:
- Move the center of the brush outline
directly over the path you want the brush to snap to.
- Drag the brush in the direction you want
to paint.
NoteThe c key is the
default hotkey for the SnapToCurve command (under Status
Line in the Hotkey Editor).
To snap the brush
to a curve
- Create the curve on the surface as follows:
- Select the surface you want to paint
with an Artisan brush tool.
- Click the Make Live button
on the Status Line to make the surface
live.
- Select the appropriate curve tool (for
example, CV Curve Tool) and create the
curve on the surface.
- Click the Make Live button
on the Status Line again.
- Select the surface.
- Select the appropriate Artisan brush
tool.
- Press and hold down the c key on your
keyboard while you do the following:
- Move the center of the brush outline
directly over the path you want the brush to snap to.
- Drag the brush in the direction you want
to paint.