How do I get rid of this?

[sukhvinders67317560]

[Colin Holgate]

Can you give more details?

[sukhvinders67317560]

whenever i start drawing a round shape, the first curve looks like a straight line. help plz.

[Colin Holgate]

I read a similar report recently. Are you up to date with Animate? Could you do a screen recording of the problem happening?

My compliments to RandomlyFish for taking a guess about the issue. Another thing of the type he was mentioning is that something could be Grouped. And for Mac users Break Apart is Command-B.

[RandomlyFish]

If you have a drawing tool selected and open the properties panel, you can adjust the amount of smoothing that's applied. 0 means no smoothing which mean that the shapes will end up exactly as you drew them, 100 means a lot of smoothing, but you will end up with lines that doesn't quite end up like you drew them. Try changing that and see if it fixes it.

If you're using the pencil tool, you can chance it's mode at the bottom of the toolbox. If the straighten option is selected, then it would explain why the first curve ends up straight.

[RandomlyFish]

If you're trying to use the eraser and it doesn't work, then you must have converted your drawing to a symbol, or you're perhaps using an older version of animate and you drew it as objects. Try selecting the default selection tool (which you had selected in the screenshot), select any part of the drawing on the stage and hit CTRL + B. Then try to erase that part with the eraser. If you open the library panel and see that you got a symbol of your drawing, then that means that you converted the drawing to a symbol. If it's not a symbol, then you can turn off object drawing mode by selecting the brush tool, and clicking the button that looks like a circle in a square, towards the bottom of the toolbox.

However, there are faster ways of deleting things. You can click on any part of your drawing or drag a box around it to highlight it, as well as click on a keyframe (which is that rectangle with a dot on it) on your timeline, and it will select everything you have on the keyframe. Once you have something selected, you can just press Delete.