Draw a freehand street

Using the Street Creation tools , you can draw streets by freehand and create streets with curves and straight segments.

You can set street options in the Tool Options window .

Draw a street

To draw a freehand street, complete the following steps:

1. Click the Polygonal Street Creation tool (or press G) on the toolbar and click the Freehand Street Creation tool (or press Shift+G) in the Tool Options window .

   You can also click Graph > Freehand Street Creation in the main menu.

2. Click and drag to start drawing a street and release when finished.

   The streets automatically snap to street segments (centerline) or nodes.

3. Press Shift to temporarily disable snapping.
4. Double-click a street segment to add a vertex at that place.

Tool options

The Freehand Street Creation tool options include the following:

Freehand Street Creation
Street Configuration	Street configuration to apply to the street. See Work with street configurations.
Node Rule File	Node rule file to be assigned to the street.
Re-use settings from neighbors	If enabled, settings are copied from neighbor streets, if available. If an existing street is extended, settings are typically copied from that segment.
Apply rule-based model generation	If enabled, model generation is automatically triggered.
Align terrain	Align the street with the terrain.
Intersect Segments	Create a new node at the intersection of segments.