GP Tool Wheel

Are you using Grease Pencil and find yourself switching a lot between modes and tools? Then GP Tool Wheel can speed up your workflow: it combines mode and tool selection in one delicious wheel.

How to use the wheel – press F8

By default you can invoke the tool wheel with the shortcut F8. You can change this shortcut easily by customizing your wheel.

The wheel only appears when there is an active Grease Pencil object. Future Grease Pencil version 3 is already supported.

Selecting a tool needs no explanation: click on an icon and you are good to go.

Customize your wheel

You can customize your wheel in the add-on preferences.

Go to Edit > Preferences... > Extensions and look for GP Tool Wheel. Click on the arrow on the left.

Here you can compose your ideal, tailor made wheel. Perhaps you want to change it in a kind of 'Quick favorites' menu, with only the modes and tools you often use. Or assign Tab as shortcut, replacing the default pie menu.

In the preferences, you can define:

• The keyboard shortcut to invoke the wheel.
• The order of the modes.
• The tools that appear in the wheel.

You can save and load your wheel preferences for distribution to other devices or Blender installs.

Further documentation

At Github, you can find further explanation of how to customize your wheel.