User manual

Shapes
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Adding Points
To add a point to a shape, enable the Add Point button and click on the shape
edge.
Points added behave as bezier points for all base shape types.
Bezier Control
A bezier shape is a spline and is defined by a number of bezier control points.
Each control point has tangent handles on each side of the point that allow
fine control of the curve of the shape at the point.
Shape showing bezier-style control
point and tangent handles.
One tangent handle "broken" (not
mirror of other) using SHIFT+CTRL
drag handle.
The basic ellipse and bezier shapes are defined by bezier style points
whereas the basic rectangle and polygon shapes are defined by standard
non-bezier points. Any points manually added to any shape will be a bezier
type.
You can access and pull out the tangent handles on a sharp
cornered bezier shape by dragging the corner point while holding
down the keyboard z key :
Keyboard : z + drag (mouse)