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- From: merritt@climate.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (John H. Merritt)
- Subject: Re: Showcase problem
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.204855.15131@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>
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- Organization: Climate and Radiation Branch
- References: <1992Sep10.180136.10116@biome.bio.ns.ca>
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- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 20:48:55 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep10.180136.10116@biome.bio.ns.ca>, silvert@biome.bio.ns.ca (Bill Silvert) writes:
- |> run up against a frustrating problem. When I try to draw a curved line
- |> the endpoints seem to have fixed directions which I cannot change, and
- |> which are always in the wrong direction. I can't find any way to
-
- 1. Select the curve with the left mouse button
- 2. Alt-e -- to edit the object
- 3. Select one of the control points with the left mouse button and
- you will see a tangent line drawn with 4 points along it.
- You can change the attraction and slope of the tangent by grabbing
- these and dragging them. To add new control points simply click
- on the curve between two existing control points. To delete a point,
- select it and hit Alt-x.
- 4. Alt-e -- to exit edit.
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