Hi. I'm sure I've used this option before, but I can't remember how for the life of me.
I have a stroke path that's closed. What I want to do is remove 1 node and every connection to it. What happens when you delete a node is that it just becomes a smooth path between the 2 nodes that were connected to it. What I want to do is delete the node and it's connections, so that the path isn't closed anymore but it ends at 2 nodes that were connected to it.
A similar but alternative approach is to select all three nodes (the one you want to remove, and the two connected to it) then use the 'Delete segment between two endpoint nodes' button (two to the right of the button PixelPest uses in his video). For selecting all three nodes, there are a couple of shortcuts:
You may be able to catch them all in a rubber-band selection.
If you can't get them all like that, due to a complex path shape or other objects getting in the way, just click on the path itself on one side of the middle node (this selects the nodes at the ends of the path segment), then shift-click on the path at the other side of the node (adds to the existing selection). You can do this even if you're zoomed in so far that you can't see the other two nodes, making this handy for complex drawings.
My first GUI computer, back in the 80s (Atari ST) used the term 'rubber band' for a rectangular selection in the OS documentation, so that's what I've always known it as. Googling the term suggests that it's commonly used for that. I don't know if there's another term for the sort of selection you're demonstrating, or if the term 'rubber band' has just ended up getting overloaded to mean both.
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Hi. I'm sure I've used this option before, but I can't remember how for the life of me.
I have a stroke path that's closed. What I want to do is remove 1 node and every connection to it. What happens when you delete a node is that it just becomes a smooth path between the 2 nodes that were connected to it. What I want to do is delete the node and it's connections, so that the path isn't closed anymore but it ends at 2 nodes that were connected to it.
Hi.
If I got it right you have to select that specific node and go: Break Path at selected node/s. Now you have 2 end points at that exact place:
That's it. Perfect. Thank you
A similar but alternative approach is to select all three nodes (the one you want to remove, and the two connected to it) then use the 'Delete segment between two endpoint nodes' button (two to the right of the button PixelPest uses in his video). For selecting all three nodes, there are a couple of shortcuts:
If that´s what he was asking for - yes. Select - Delete segment between two non-endpoints nodes. Done.
Since when we have rubber-band selection?
It's just a commonly used term for click-dragging a rectangular selection, sometimes referred to as a marquee selection.
Well - that´s what I call a "rubber-band selection":
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My first GUI computer, back in the 80s (Atari ST) used the term 'rubber band' for a rectangular selection in the OS documentation, so that's what I've always known it as. Googling the term suggests that it's commonly used for that. I don't know if there's another term for the sort of selection you're demonstrating, or if the term 'rubber band' has just ended up getting overloaded to mean both.
When I see the term "rubber band", I think of the rectangle select. The method Pixel demonstrates is frequently called "Lasso".
I usually use the terms: