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DennisJa
Inspiring
Jan 18, 2018 6:22 AM UTC
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Brush is acting like an eraser?

All of a sudden my brush tool displays an eraser icon and I can't draw anything. Whats going on and how do I fix it?

    DennisJaCorrect answer
    Inspiring
    Jan 19, 2018 1:35 AM UTC

    Could you tell us what fixed it for you?


    The brush was on some type of short cut which allowed any tool to erase. I ended up turning it on some how without know how to switch back. In my tablet driver settings I simply clicked a button called "Switch brush" as one of my short cuts and it went back to normal

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    Lee259601465f7v
    Participant
    Sep 5, 2022 3:03 AM UTC

    Hit C on the keyboard. 

     

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    s19
    Participant
    Apr 21, 2021 1:17 PM UTC

    My XP-PEN was working fine and then all of a sudden the pen turned into an eraser. What worked for me is to change the USB slots.

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      direktor63
      Participant
      May 31, 2022 1:50 PM UTC

      Didn't work for me. The only thing that worked was restarting my MacBook Pro. That worked for a while then it happened again.

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      GizemKilinc9
      Participant
      Jun 22, 2020 7:26 PM UTC

      oh my goodness thank you so much for this, I was having the exact same issues and I had no idea how to solve it! Almost strangled myself with frustration lol thank you

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      Jerill
      Participant
      Jan 17, 2020 6:38 AM UTC

      Omg same!!! Its getting really annoying. I saw how u solved urs but i use an xp pen deco 03 tablet and as far as i know, xp-pen's driver doesnt have a setting like that. Help

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      Anonymous
      Feb 10, 2020 5:56 PM UTC

      I also have xp pen, and I figured it out! It seems to be the buttons on the pen that enable this annoying setting. By randomly pressing them I figured out that if you hold down the top one for a moment then it diables this annoying setting.

      Figured this out by messing around, since those useless buttons seem to be the cause of a lot of my problems.

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        mb_18
        Participant
        Feb 11, 2020 1:21 AM UTC

        How did you fix it? I have xp pen artist 12 and yesterday my pen started acting like an eraser when it said it was on the brush tool. I have gone into the penTabletSetting and everything looks normal. In photoshop when I use the trackpad it is the brush but when my pen is close to the tablet screen it turns into the eraser. What should I do?

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          shinyw49558061
          Participant
          Jul 10, 2018 9:57 PM UTC

          I just saved the thing I was working on, closed the app and when I opened it everything was fine :DD

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          _keyframer
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          _keyframerCommunity Expert
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          Jan 18, 2018 1:27 PM UTC

          Hmmmm, try restarting Animate. If that doesn't work restart your computer.

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          DennisJaAuthor
          Inspiring
          Jan 18, 2018 1:29 PM UTC

          Its been acting like this for the past 2 weeks now. Restarting does nothing.

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          DennisJaAuthor
          Inspiring
          Jan 18, 2018 1:32 PM UTC

          I also don't think it has anything to do with my drivers. Photoshop works just fine, and I can use everything else normally in flash like clicking on buttons and stuff.

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