Literally all other "vector based" editing tools I've tried, from Corel Draw up to Affinity Designer show the vertices/nodes of objects, but not Inkscape.
All I see are lines, blue boxes when selecting them and red highlights when hovering over, regardless of which tool I use:
What's the deal here? I don't care about these blue boxes. How can I see the nodes for all objects instead?
For some reason, I needed to use "object to path" command? Not sure why as I didn't need to do what in Illustrator or Designer.
But anyway, anything I tried to do in the app was way, way too slow compared to those other two (the file contains tens of thousands of lines), and the simplify command I wanted to try produced undesirable results. I'll try again in another few years. :)
Just on the “simlify” command: It produces better results when less nodes are selected. The definition of “better” depends on the data. I try to avoid using “simplify” on huge objects but either use simple elements and do the grouping/combination (etc.) after simplify. Unfortunately, for the time, simplify does not work on a user-selected number of nodes.
You still have many nodes, but – depending on the project – it can still be advantageous.
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Literally all other "vector based" editing tools I've tried, from Corel Draw up to Affinity Designer show the vertices/nodes of objects, but not Inkscape.
All I see are lines, blue boxes when selecting them and red highlights when hovering over, regardless of which tool I use:
What's the deal here? I don't care about these blue boxes. How can I see the nodes for all objects instead?
I'd check Preferences>Interface>Handle size:
failing that, I'd try resetting the preferences. https://inkscape.org/forums/questions/getting-back-to-square-one-and-starting-over-its-easy/
For some reason, I needed to use "object to path" command? Not sure why as I didn't need to do what in Illustrator or Designer.
But anyway, anything I tried to do in the app was way, way too slow compared to those other two (the file contains tens of thousands of lines), and the simplify command I wanted to try produced undesirable results. I'll try again in another few years. :)
Just on the “simlify” command: It produces better results when less nodes are selected. The definition of “better” depends on the data. I try to avoid using “simplify” on huge objects but either use simple elements and do the grouping/combination (etc.) after simplify. Unfortunately, for the time, simplify does not work on a user-selected number of nodes.
You still have many nodes, but – depending on the project – it can still be advantageous.