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The Fusion page toolbar.
TIP: If you don’t know which node a particular icon corresponds to, just hover your
pointer over any toolbar button and a tooltip will display the full name of that tool.
Methods of adding nodes by clicking toolbar buttons:
 To add a node after a selected node: Select a node in the Node Editor and then click a
toolbar button.
 To add a disconnected node to the Node Editor: Deselect all nodes in the Node Editor
and then click a toolbar button.
Methods of adding nodes by dragging toolbar buttons:
 To insert a new node into the node tree: Drag a toolbar button into the Node
Editor and onto the connection line between any two compatible nodes. When the
connection highlights as the node is over it, drop the node and it’ll be inserted.
 To create a disconnected node: Drag a toolbar button into an empty part of the Node
Editor. Dragging a toolbar button into the Inspector also creates a disconnected node.
 To insert a new node after a node loaded into a viewer: Drag a toolbar button onto a
viewer to insert a new node after whichever node is viewed, regardless of whether any
nodes are selected.
To replace a node in the Node Editor with a node from the toolbar:
1 Drag a button from the toolbar so that it’s directly over the node in the Node Editor that
you want replaced. When the node underneath is highlighted, drop the node.
Dragging a node from the toolbar to replace an existing tool.
2 Click OK in the dialog to confirm the replacement.
TIP: When you replace one node with another, any settings that are identical between
the two nodes are copied into the new node. For example, replacing a Transform node
with a Merge will copy the existing center and angle values from the Transform to
the Merge.
Adding Nodes Quickly Using the Select Tool Window
The next fastest way of adding or inserting nodes to the Node Editor is using the Select Tool
window, which lets you search for any node available to Fusion by typing a few characters.
Once you learn this method, it’ll probably become one of your most frequently-used ways of
adding nodes.
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