How to draw smooth curve in Hyperdraw??

Okay, I've checked the manual 4x and have been playing with Hyperdraw for 30 minutes and still can't figure out how to draw a smooth bell curve in the Hypereditor... In Cubase, I would take the pencil tool and draw a nice curve but can't seem to figure out how do the same in Logic!
Could someone pleeeeease lend me a clue...?
Thanks.

RealDave wrote:
"The name on the package may say "Apple," but this is definitely not your typical mac application!"
Yes, Logic was an acquisition. It has remained to this day "The Redheaded Stepchild". If they ever take
some engineers off the iOS projects and put them on Logic, the application may shape up. Don't get your hopes too high though. iOS is where they make all the Money. Logic is small potatoes in Apples big picture.
PS: This message will soon disappear because it contains truth.
To give them credit, Logic made a HUGE jump in usability when it hit Logic 8.
I mean, MASSIVE.
It's actually usable by mortals now.
Even among professional tools, there are well-designed ones and completely arcane ones with the same functionality.
Logic grew over decades of adding an extra little limb here, and growing a third chin down there, etc., at the behest of a hundred studio techs missing this or that and calling up the engineers or higher-uppers. It was an extremely powerful, but utterly convoluted MESS.
The fact that you can now explain the basic structure of Logic 8 in less than three minutes (the fact that it HAS a "basic structure", rather than just a kraken-like reenactment of 80 years of studio development known as "The Environment") makes a huge difference, and, though they've confused people who've whittled the beast into shape over the past twenty years by trying to make the application "Logical" (including key commands), the benefits to users are, IMHO, tremendous.
I know a number of people who wouldn't have considered working with Logic before (Nuendo users), and now that Logic 9 appears to have fixed many of the most glaring bugs in Logic 8, are adding it to their toolset.

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