Now I'm gonna slice all the way through here to make two semicircles. I’m just gonna convert this back into a shape, and up here we grab the knife tool. You could use the knife tool on shapes or on paths, so I'll just show you. It just allows you to slice right through a shape in order to create multiple shapes. The next thing we're gonna look at is the knife tool, which is pretty cool. So that is the other way that you can convert a shape into a path so you can get at those nodes, and make the kind of adjustments that we were just talking about. And you can see there you also have the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Shift + P. You can go up to Modify > Path > Convert to Path. Just gonna undo that and show you the other way to make this conversion. So you can do that by right-clicking and selecting Convert to Path. But if you don't care about these settings over here and you just wanna get at the nodes that make up this shape, then you need to convert the shape into a path. All of these are fixed shapes, and they have to remain fixed shapes if you wanna use these settings over here. Now that's gonna be the case for any one of these shapes, except for the line tool. And now even if we select the pen tool or we use the subselect tool, we can't access any of the nodes that make up this shape. If we have a shape instead, you can see over on the Layers panel here it doesn't say path anymore. So you can see here in our Layers panel, we've got this little path icon that looks like a pen, but I'm just gonna delete that path. So all of those operations depend on what you're working with being a path. And then from there, you can keep on drawing out additional nodes to make up your shape. You just first need to click one of the end nodes to select it. And with the pen tool to keep drawing out and adding more nodes onto the end of this existing path. But what happens if you have an open shape that you wanna continue? So we're gonna uncheck this box here, so that our shape now opens up. And that covers how to add points in between existing points. So that tells me that if I click now, that point's gonna disappear. And if you can see there, there's a little negative sign at the bottom right of the cursor now. If you're using the pen tool, then all you need to do is hover over the point. With the subselect tool, you just click on a point or you select multiple points and then you just hit the Delete key. So what about how you delete points? Again, there's two ways to do it, with the subselect tool and with the pen tool. And while you can't work with handles like we went over before, sometimes it's just easier to click and drag a curve in order to get it just how you want it. That's telling you that if you click and drag now, that you can click and drag just this path segments to whatever curvature you want. When you hover over his midpoint here, you can see a little squiggly line at the bottom right of the cursor, it's like a tilde symbol. That's because when you click and drag on a line with the subselect tool, it has a different function. However, with the subselect tool you can click and drag to create curves like this. You just need to click a point in between existing nodes, and then you get a new node. Now the other way that you can add nodes is with the subselect tool, which you grab from this dropdown list here, or by hitting D. You have those same abilities to control what kind of a joint you're putting down. So this is just the same as when you're adding in nodes for the first time. And then you're gonna have the ability to change the curvature of the new node that you're adding in. You can also click and drag, instead of just clicking statically. And if you click here, then you get a new node appear at the point that you clicked. But if you hover over a point just in between two existing nodes, then you'll see it shift. So with the pen tool, you'll see by default there's a teeny tiny little x down at the bottom-right corner of the cursor. You can use the pen tool or you can use the subselect tool. Now what happens if we decide that we're not happy with the number of node that are making up our shape and we wanna add some extras? Well, there's two ways that you can go about it. So just work out a quick shape, just any old shape. The first thing that we're gonna look at is how you can add extra nodes to your shape once you already have it in place. Now we are gonnalook at how you can do a bit more editing once you have those paths and shapes on your canvas. So far we've gone through how to work with path creation tools and shape creation tools. Hey, welcome back to Gravit Designer Quick Start.
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