Timeline for How can I make symmetric bezier?
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| Apr 7, 2022 at 14:17 | vote | accept | Daniel | ||
| Apr 7, 2022 at 12:54 | comment | added | Billy Kerr | Sorry I meant to say "Symmetric Nodes", not Smooth. But still not going to guarantee symmetry without some kind of guide. When you pull out one handle the other is mirrored. You can hold down Ctrl as you click and drag handles to constrain to increments of 15 degrees. | |
| Apr 7, 2022 at 12:25 | comment | added | joojaa | the way i do this when i need it, is draw a line from tangent to endpoint mirror that and then snap the other tangent. Or you can just you know rotate the line to be horisontal and snap then rotate back, although this is a bit problematic in inkscape because it does not have numeric input like a application should have | |
| Apr 7, 2022 at 11:44 | answer | added | user82991 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 7, 2022 at 10:45 | comment | added | joojaa | Not that i am aware of. In not sure it would be super useful. It would be more useful if you could lock the angle. But that too dont exist. | |
| Apr 7, 2022 at 9:11 | comment | added | Daniel | Smoothing means different I think: what I need is to grab one handle of one point, and make the next point's handle to mirror my movement. It seems smoothing does different job, and can't really help here for me. | |
| Apr 7, 2022 at 9:07 | comment | added | Billy Kerr | @Daniel There is. You can use a Smooth node for that, but it won't necessarily make the curve geometrically symmetric. You would still need a grid to align it to. | |
| Apr 7, 2022 at 8:47 | comment | added | Daniel | Aham, and there is no way to grab only one handle and make the other handle mirror the distance and angle? | |
| Apr 7, 2022 at 7:21 | comment | added | joojaa | Well no, just as long as your tangents can snap to your grid. Just make the grid suitably small. For your usecase the grid is almost certainly good enough. The grid just has the same function as rounding numbers just choose a rounding thats appropriate and thats that. But in reality you can rotate the grid to fit your objective. So there is never a situation where its not aligned to the bezier. | |
| Apr 7, 2022 at 6:24 | comment | added | Daniel | That only works if the line is either horizontal or vertical (based on my understanding) am I missing something here? | |
| Apr 6, 2022 at 20:34 | comment | added | joojaa | Snap to grid make handles symmetric. See i.sstatic.net/yAOyy.gif | |
| Apr 6, 2022 at 20:25 | history | asked | Daniel | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
