Add additional points to existing curve layer with pen tool (Affinity Photo)

[JimmyJack]

Just now, walt.farrell said:

PCs do not have a Cmd key.

They have a Ctrl key, and pressing Ctrl with the Pen Tool selected switches you to the Node Tool temporarily. But Ctrl+Click with the Node Tool is "delete segment".

Ahhh. Ok yeah Ctrl+click on Mac is delete too.

On MAC the tool tips say "CMD to use Node tool", but in reality (as you can see in the vid) you don't "really" leave the pen tool, you're just able to access the node tool's capabilities on the fly. It's not literally switching back and forth. 

[R C-R]

Just now, walt.farrell said:

They have a Ctrl key, and pressing Ctrl with the Pen Tool selected switches you to the Node Tool temporarily. But Ctrl+Click with the Node Tool is "delete segment".

Thus, the conflict mentioned in the linked topic, right?

[R C-R]

2 minutes ago, JimmyJack said:

Ahhh. Ok yeah Ctrl+click on Mac is delete too.

It is if the Node Tool is the current tool. But if the Pen Tool is the current one, then to delete a segment you have to use both CTRL & CMD to do that, CMD to temporarily switch to the Node Tool & CTRL to use that tool's delete segment option.

[JimmyJack]

So, on a PC, in a vector drawing program, there's no way to add a point while drawing? One literally has to switch tools?? That's hilarious!! 🤣😂

[Lem3]

11 minutes ago, JimmyJack said:

So, on a PC, in a vector drawing program, there's no way to add a point while drawing? One literally has to switch tools?? That's hilarious!! 🤣😂

Ctrl-Click (in the Pen Tool) used to add a node.  But, as explained in the link above, an "update" to the Node Tool had the unintended consequence of breaking that.

[R C-R]

17 minutes ago, JimmyJack said:

So, on a PC, in a vector drawing program, there's no way to add a point while drawing? One literally has to switch tools?? That's hilarious!! 🤣😂

Just like with Windows, we have to switch tools on Macs. The difference is on Macs we can temporarily switch to the Node tool via the CMD key modifier & still have an additional modifier key available (CTRL) to use in combination with CMD to use the delete segment function of the Node Tool.

In Windows there is no way to do that using the Pen Tool because adding a node using the CTRL key modifier was changed to the delete segment function.

Basically, Windows needs an 'extra' modifier key to do what the Mac version can do.

[Komatös]

Exactly, pressing CTRL only allows you to move the nodes and their handles. If you then click point on a segment between two nodes, the mouse pointer gets a red x.

Edited April 7, 2022 by Komatös
Clarification

[walt.farrell]

44 minutes ago, JimmyJack said:

So, on a PC, in a vector drawing program, there's no way to add a point while drawing? One literally has to switch tools??

You can add nodes at the end of the path with the Pen Tool while drawing. If you made a mistake and want to add nodes in the middle of the path to fix it, you need to switch tools.