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Understanding node types

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Understanding node types

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- [Instructor] Let's take a look at the different node types you can use in Inkscape. Besides the position of a node, node handles also define the shape of a path, and there are four different kinds of nodes in Inkscape, each with different handle behaviors. There's corner, smooth, symmetrical, and auto-smooth. And when you have the node tool and a node selected, you can convert that node to any of these styles by clicking the buttons up in the tool controls. And here's the four styles. And when you move your cursor over a node in your artwork, its type appears in the status bar at the bottom of the screen. The one I have selected now is a corner node, also called a cusp node, and these ones are shaped like diamonds. They can have zero, one, or two handles, and if they have two handles, those move independently of each other. So I can reshape either of these segments independently. This is the kind of node you'd use to…

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