<![CDATA[Any way to move 2 selected anchor points in opposite direction?]]>Example:
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In Inkscape I would just press Ctrl+> or Ctrl+< to walk the nodes towards or away from each other resulting in something like this
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Any VS way of doing this?

]]>https://www.vectorstyler.com/forum/topic/3017/any-way-to-move-2-selected-anchor-points-in-opposite-directionRSS for NodeSun, 17 May 2026 13:05:06 GMTFri, 07 Apr 2023 21:16:14 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Any way to move 2 selected anchor points in opposite direction? on Sat, 08 Apr 2023 08:13:22 GMT]]>@syllie said in Any way to move 2 selected anchor points in opposite direction?:

Step wise interactive change would have been nice

I added this to the feature request backlog.

]]>https://www.vectorstyler.com/forum/post/18216https://www.vectorstyler.com/forum/post/18216Sat, 08 Apr 2023 08:13:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Any way to move 2 selected anchor points in opposite direction? on Sat, 08 Apr 2023 07:30:34 GMT]]>@syllie said in Any way to move 2 selected anchor points in opposite direction?:

Step wise interactive change would have been nice

Moving node/s a defined step is possible.

You can change the value in the "... edit the movement by keyboard" field.
When moving node/s with the arrow keys.

Multiplier keys work also in the Transform panel.

When I change a value with the mouse scroll wheel in the transform panel.
Only with the mouse wheel the value changes by 1.
Holding down the shift key changes the value by 10 units.
If you use the Ctrl (win) key, the node will change in a fraction of 1.

It is also possible to use the arrow keys in a value field
"up" increases a value, "down" decreases it.

Here a video

]]>https://www.vectorstyler.com/forum/post/18215https://www.vectorstyler.com/forum/post/18215Sat, 08 Apr 2023 07:30:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Any way to move 2 selected anchor points in opposite direction? on Fri, 07 Apr 2023 22:30:08 GMT]]>@b77 Thank you, this feels a bit counter intuitive, and I actually was wondering why the bounding box changed when switching between Node Tool and Select tool, but now I see that it changes context to selected nodes only. Very nifty!

]]>https://www.vectorstyler.com/forum/post/18211https://www.vectorstyler.com/forum/post/18211Fri, 07 Apr 2023 22:30:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Any way to move 2 selected anchor points in opposite direction? on Fri, 07 Apr 2023 22:28:35 GMT]]>@syllie said in Any way to move 2 selected anchor points in opposite direction?:

this opens the door for more tricks

your welcome

because of Tricks 🙂
here is another one

]]>https://www.vectorstyler.com/forum/post/18210https://www.vectorstyler.com/forum/post/18210Fri, 07 Apr 2023 22:28:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Any way to move 2 selected anchor points in opposite direction? on Fri, 07 Apr 2023 22:26:03 GMT]]>@syllie
• select the nodes;
• switch to the Select/Transform tool (V) and…
• Ctrl-drag to scale them by their bounding box.

]]>https://www.vectorstyler.com/forum/post/18208https://www.vectorstyler.com/forum/post/18208Fri, 07 Apr 2023 22:26:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Any way to move 2 selected anchor points in opposite direction? on Fri, 07 Apr 2023 22:20:23 GMT]]>@Subpath Thanks that is a nice way of solving it. Had not thought to use the transform panel for between-nodes operations (rather than on a full object) and this opens the door for more tricks. Step wise interactive change would have been nice but I can live with this!

]]>https://www.vectorstyler.com/forum/post/18206https://www.vectorstyler.com/forum/post/18206Fri, 07 Apr 2023 22:20:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Any way to move 2 selected anchor points in opposite direction? on Fri, 07 Apr 2023 22:13:15 GMT]]>@syllie

open the tranform panel
Panels > Transform

select your (both) nodes
and change the Value in the width
or the scale field

here a short video

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]]>https://www.vectorstyler.com/forum/post/18205https://www.vectorstyler.com/forum/post/18205Fri, 07 Apr 2023 22:13:15 GMT