I want to move an anchor point along its current path – I mean moving anchor points keeping their current angle. Look at this picture:
According to above picture, let’s say we want to move anchor point 1, but as you can see there is no option (or I cant find the option) to do this while preserving the angle – with the shift key, the anchor point snaps to 45° angles…
Answer
Illustrator does not have a easy shortcut to do this. However, you can do this with the scale tool. While this sounds as a weird thing, why it works becomes apparent once you realize we move the pivot point to previous control point. Here is what you do:
- (Make sure smart guides is on)
- Select the point you want to move.
- Activate scale tool (S)
- Move the anchor point to the position of prevous point
- Drag aloing the direction, a indication uniform should be present and snap while you are dragging in right driection.
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Source : Link , Question Author : Omid , Answer Author : joojaa
