Node aligning tools

**luciandesign** · 05 May 2010, 12:07 PM

Node aligning tools ... to easly align nodes (without creating and deleting guidelines)

**jvila** · 05 May 2010, 02:51 PM

Luciandesign,
Totally agree with you

**Nostaw** · 06 May 2010, 02:42 AM

+1 so so so needed... It can be really simple. Open the Object Alignment tool (CTRL+SHIFT+L), Go into Shape Editor Tool mode (F4), select point handles from multiple lines/shapes and align using the Alignment tool.
As soon the shape editor tool is entered (F4) the heading of the "Object Alignment"-Tool should be renamed to "Node Alignment" though, depending in which edit mode you are.

**Albacore** · 06 May 2010, 09:19 AM

Gee that works! Well you learn some each day.

**StevenWWinters** · 06 May 2010, 10:24 AM

I can see how this would be useful, but aside from align vertically and align horizontally, would any other of the modes be meaningful?

**MarkMyWords** · 06 May 2010, 12:35 PM

I second this idea. Align and distribute applied to nodes or groups of nodes would be useful. What about scale and rotate too?

**MarcT** · 06 May 2010, 06:18 PM

Yeah, that would Be Nice.

The same blob selectors as with the object selector could work with the nodes.

Marc

**morphonius_821** · 11 May 2010, 05:02 AM

Aligning nodes...sounds cool...

**bcire68** · 13 May 2010, 10:00 AM

+1

Also copy the curve between two points and paste to the curve between two other points. I think that could be useful too.

Eric

**luciandesign** · 08 July 2014, 07:00 AM

So here we are 4 years later. And we still don't have a Node aligning tool ...
I've downloaded the latest Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 9 .... an nothing

... Also, it seems Xara is changing names so frequently that I start do get confused.

Is it hard to implement? I really like Xara ... but it misses some basic features that even Inkscape has it.