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Moving a Sketch's Points

Drag a sketch's points to reshape it, join them, or draw from one.

While a sketch is open, being drawn or reopened with Edit Sketch, you can drag its points to reshape it, drop one on another to join them, or start drawing from one.

A rectangle reopened with Edit Sketch, one corner dragged out.
A rectangle reopened with Edit Sketch, one corner dragged out.

Dragging a point

  1. Open the sketch: select it and choose Edit Sketch in Sketch ▾, or double-click it. It works the same while you're still drawing.
  2. Press on a point, shown as a small circle, and drag it. The lines and curves through it follow.
  3. Let go. It snaps to the grid and to other points as drawing does; hold ⌘ to move it freely.
  4. Click Done, or Finish for a new sketch.

Each move is one step while the sketch is open, "Move Point", so ⌘Z puts the point back.

Joining points

Drop a point on another and they become one, joining the lines that met them. It's the way to close a shape whose ends didn't quite meet, so it can make a solid.

Drawing from a point

Pressing on a point picks it up, so to start drawing from one instead, with whichever tool is chosen, hold ⌥ and click it.

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