Copy-paste/sync node angle/tangent
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Nine out of ten of my personaly documents contain hand traced objects. I rarely use boolean operations or classic Illustrator tricks to create my objects.
Very often I need ie parallel curves and two nodes to have an identical look (identical tangents) - just in different places. Quick and dirty. Did I miss the obvious over the years? Or will some sync tangent with other tangent feature make sense? (sync = just copy-paste, not dynamically updated synced nodes)
I have seen so many copy-paste attributes from object to object in many programs but not node attributes.
I know I can snap nodes to grid and do it the hard classic way but a fast method like I described above is what I need for fast node intensive workflows like hand tracing.
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@Ingolf There is copy / paste for selected segments: https://recordit.co/mIp45yQCZm ?
(shift+click to select more consecutive nodes).
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@vectoradmin said in Copy-paste/sync node angle/tangent:
@Ingolf There is copy / paste for selected segments: https://recordit.co/mIp45yQCZm ?
(shift+click to select more consecutive nodes).Ah yes, but that adds to a path with a bit of rotation you have to counter-rotate.
It also isn't very useful when you have traced or drawn something and just need a single node adjusted later.
Maybe I am alone with this need
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@Ingolf said in Copy-paste/sync node angle/tangent:
I'm trying to picture how this would work: would it copy only the control point locations relative to a node and the node type, and then paste that over another node? Leaving the node position unchanged?
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@vectoradmin said in Copy-paste/sync node angle/tangent:
@Ingolf said in Copy-paste/sync node angle/tangent:
I'm trying to picture how this would work: would it copy only the control point locations relative to a node and the node type, and then paste that over another node? Leaving the node position unchanged?
Exactly. Not much else. If complexity arrives I could easily live with if it requires the same node type.
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@Ingolf I think this is doable. Since copy/paste path does not make much sense for single node selections, it could instead do a node attr copying.
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@vectoradmin Oh, right. Yes, so we can avoid clutter in the UI and just add a sentence in the documentation. Elegant.
