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Node Editing: Understanding vector node colours
Hey Group,
When editing nodes, especially arc nodes, sometimes the the middle nodes are blue and sometimes they are black and some are green. What is the difference in the colours?
Also I find I cant delete the blue ones?
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Adrian Walker wrote: "When editing nodes, especially arc nodes, sometimes the the middle nodes are blue and sometimes they are black and some are green. What is the difference in the colours?
Also I find I cant delete the blue ones?"
When the nodes are blue, they have been smoothed. Don't like them, then hang the mouse pointer over it and hit "S"; again they will turn black.
Haven't seen the green nodes yet, when does it happen that they become green?
Mike
Adrian Walker wrote: "When editing nodes, especially arc nodes, sometimes the the middle nodes are blue and sometimes they are black and some are green. What is the difference in the colours?
Also I find I cant delete the blue ones?"
OK. I didn't realize there is a green color. If you go to menu bar, edit go down to the bottom, you will see options, click it, in options go to 2D view you can change the handles on the nodes to white instead of green. I have been using the software so long I didn't pay any attention to colors of anything except the 3D model plane, that's the only thing I look at, getting the color and shininess that I like help me to get the models I like.
Mike
Hi Mike,
Michael Sherve wrote: "I didn't realize there is a green color."
Thank you for your reply. See the image below; there is one green node. Could this be marking the start / end of the profile?
Adrian Walker wrote: "See the image below; there is one green node. Could this be marking the start / end of the profile?"
The green node is the start point of the vector, Adrian. If you were to machine this vector, the green node is where toolpath machining would start.
Hi Adrian,
Adrian Walker wrote: "When editing nodes especially arc nodes sometimes the the middle nodes are blue and sometimes they are black and some are green. What is the difference in the colours? Also, I find I can't delete the blue ones?"
All of this is explained in the Reference Help, which is displayed by selecting the Help > Reference Help menu option in your Carveco software; please review the Menus > Vector menu > Vector - Node Editing topic and its associated sub-topics, followed by the Menus > Vector menu > Menus > Vector menu > Vector - Node Editing > Editing vector spans topic.
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