Sometimes I have issues with the corner tool.

[PepGold]

Sometimes I cannot select a node and use the corner tool on it. Normally when you select an anchor point it gets bigger, but when I experience this issue, then selected anchor point is tiny and not a square. I've included a screenshot.

 

[Pšenda]

It is single node? Can you provide the original file? - it is enough that there is only the problematic shape.

[firstdefence]

9 hours ago, csj said:

Sometimes I cannot select a node and use the corner tool on it. Normally when you select an anchor point it gets bigger, but when I experience this issue, then selected anchor point is tiny and not a square. I've included a screenshot.

 

Upload the file so we can take a look see.

[PepGold]

Where is the problematic curve. Top right corner.

 

 

forum-corner-tool.afdesign

[firstdefence]

Change the node to a sharp node, at the moment it's a Smart node.

 

[PepGold]

Wow. Is there a keyboard shortcut for converting nodes? Because I didn't change it, I just expanded a storke.

[Pšenda]

3 hours ago, csj said:

Is there a keyboard shortcut for converting nodes? Because I didn't change it

A change is very unlikely - a rectangle with a Sharp node, and after conversion to a Smart node.

   

3 hours ago, firstdefence said:

at the moment it's a Smart node.

Is it even possible to create a rectangle with a rectangular edge - to make it a Smart node?
For me, every time you try to straighten arcs, it changes to Sharp node.

[firstdefence]

6 hours ago, Pšenda said:

A change is very unlikely - a rectangle with a Sharp node, and after conversion to a Smart node.

   

Is it even possible to create a rectangle with a rectangular edge - to make it a Smart node?
For me, every time you try to straighten arcs, it changes to Sharp node.

@Pšenda If you open the document and just mouseover the offending node and look at the bottom left of the affinity screen where the context hints are it actually tells you what node type it is  Obviously @csj knows some node voodoo.

This is probably just a glitch in the Matrix and will likely never happen again in our lifetime, but if you do see it again they are the one 

[firstdefence]

And now for some Voodoo.

Square from Smooth nodes.afdesign

[Pšenda]

And the production process? He would certainly be interested in the OP - how it happened.

[Pšenda]

1 hour ago, firstdefence said:

@Pšenda If you open the document and just mouseover the offending node and look at the bottom left of the affinity screen where the context hints are it actually tells you what node type it is

??? This is for me?

[firstdefence]

1 hour ago, Pšenda said:

??? This is for me?

For anybody really, I'm sure it would help knowing how you can have a smooth node that gives a sharp corner.

Basically the smooth node has one node handle pulled as close as possible to the Node, the other node handle is constrained vertically or horizontally.

[R C-R]

6 hours ago, firstdefence said:

For anybody really, I'm sure it would help knowing how you can have a smooth node that gives a sharp corner.

It would help even more knowing that it isn't really a sharp corner. In Outline View Mode, zoomed in to 17000 % with the the lower right corner node of the curve selected & a perfectly horizontal line running through that node for comparison, it is easy to see the curvature of the bottom edge:

<Insert Stevie Wonder singing Superstition here> 

[Pšenda]

2 hours ago, R C-R said:

is easy to see the curvature of the bottom edge:

The amount of curvature is given by the length of the lower handle - if it is placed directly on the node (the handle will be zero length), then the bottom edge is straight.

[Pšenda]

9 hours ago, firstdefence said:

For anybody

The node type is obvious from its shape (Sharp square, Smooth ring, Smart dot ring).

[firstdefence]

 

1 hour ago, Pšenda said:

The node type is obvious from its shape (Sharp square, Smooth ring, Smart dot ring).

But in the original screenshot it was not obvious, and that is why this post exists.  

 

[R C-R]

1 hour ago, Pšenda said:

The amount of curvature is given by the length of the lower handle - if it is placed directly on the node (the handle will be zero length), then the bottom edge is straight.

Have you tried doing that? When I do, the node is converted to a sharp one.

[Pšenda]

1 hour ago, firstdefence said:

 

But in the original screenshot it was not obvious, and that is why this post exists.  

 

??? And in the original screenshot you can see the Status bar? I'm sorry, but I don't understand you.

[Pšenda]

58 minutes ago, R C-R said:

Have you tried doing that? When I do, the node is converted to a sharp one.

Not with me.
  

[Pšenda]

On 11/6/2019 at 8:43 AM, firstdefence said:

at the moment it's a Smart node.

This is just as strange - if I edit the Smart node to create a square curve, the node will change to Smooth.

[R C-R]

1 hour ago, Pšenda said:

Not with me.

How did you manage to set the nodes' handles to zero length? I can't do that without resorting to Construction Snapping, but that leaves the shape in a very unstable state & the app eventually crashes. 

[Pšenda]

3 hours ago, R C-R said:

without resorting to Construction Snapping

I probably used grid snapping.

[firstdefence]

On 11/5/2019 at 10:01 PM, csj said:

Sometimes I cannot select a node and use the corner tool on it. Normally when you select an anchor point it gets bigger, but when I experience this issue, then selected anchor point is tiny and not a square. I've included a screenshot.

 

@Pšenda Where exactly is the status bar in this image?

[R C-R]

4 hours ago, Pšenda said:

I probably used grid snapping.

I tried that as well, but I could not get the grid positioned appropriately, even when using the "Show axis editing handles" in the Basic or Advanced grid modes so I could drag the grid origin around. No matter what I did, neither axis would align to any of the nodes, even when I set the grid spacing to its minimum (?) of 1 px & set its divisions to some ridiculously large number that would not even show other than at extreme zoom levels.

In fact, I think that may have been a factor in what caused the app to crash. 

[Pšenda]

7 hours ago, firstdefence said:

Where exactly is the status bar in this image?

And why do you think I ask where you see him there?

13 hours ago, Pšenda said:

??? And in the original screenshot you can see the Status bar?

Which was a reaction to your statement, that the node shape is not visible in the original image, but you recommended me (which I still don't understand why, because I didn't need to know), that the node type can be detected from the Status bar.