help basic brush

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November 2, 2016
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I once tried to change the settings of the basic brush using the dropdown menu. I would like to reset it to the default setting (basic brush), but I have problems to do so. When I set it back and use the brush it continue to change to to previous settings of 5 pt bold. How can I keep the default settings of the basic brush again (basic line) without selecting every time the traces. (to get the trace with the basic brush at the moment I need to do everytime two steps...trace the line, select it and set it to basic, the thing is that I want to avoid this and get the trace immediately in the right way using the basic brush)

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Doug A Roberts

Community Expert

perhaps you'd be better off with the pencil tool rather than brush if you just want a freehand line with a stroke weight.

le_Rodo_Author

Participant

thanks a lot for your reply, in fact with the pencil tool I managed to do what I needed to do

Doug A Roberts

Community Expert

no problem. it is one of the confusing facts of the Illustrator interface that 'Basic' is not a brush as such, even though it appears as if you can select it as one. selecting 'basic' is a way of clearing brush attributes from your stroke, i.e. telling illustrator you don't want a brush. then when you try and draw with the brush tool again it just picks the last one used. because the brush tool always uses a brush.

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