# Sketching tools autodrop

**URL:** <https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/sketching-tools-autodrop/31016>\
**Category:** Feature requests\
**Created:** [March 27, 2024, 5:32pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/sketching-tools-autodrop/31016 "2024-03-27T17:32:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![Peter\_Gy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/peter_gy/32/9251_2.png) [@Peter\_Gy](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Peter_Gy)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2024, 7:48am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/sketching-tools-autodrop/31016/2 "2024-03-28T07:48:49Z")

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Thanks for the feedback! This is a part of the app that [we’re working on as we speak](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/keyboard-ux-changes/30691) so your feedback is timed perfectly!

Could you help me understand the issue a bit better?

1. What do you do right before you’d add such a line?
2. What do you do next, right after you drop the line tool?
3. The way Esc works in this situation is the following. Ideally, which of those steps would you like to see skipped or combined into a single operation?  
(a) First Esc cancels the ongoing sketching operation, if there’s one (eg. an unclosed sequence of lines, a spline etc.)  
(b) Second Esc drops the sketch pen (eg. Line, Spline) but keeps the app in sketch mode (so it becomes possible to select sketch items to add dimensions or move them, but also to select closed “fillings” and start an extrusion or other 3D operation)  
(c) Third Esc exits Sketch mode and the main menu resets to its starting state

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