The third and final of these options is “place, keep in conveyor belt, load next”. This puts an unlimited amount of that item on your mouse to place, and they stay in the content area when you’re done with it. Next option is “place multiple and keep in conveyor”. What this means is that once you have placed the item from the content collector tool, it is removed and the only way to place it again is to switch back to the content collector and pick it up again.

When using the content tool, there are a few different modes: first is “place, remove from conveyor, and load next”. If you hold shift and move the anchor point, it will snap to different angles instead of moving freely, and holding option (or alt on Windows) it will duplicate only the paths of the anchor points selected. If you wish to edit multiple anchor points at once, follow the steps above, but after you’ve selected your first anchor point, hold shift and select any other points you wish to edit. Make sure you have deselected the object, and only select the object once you are already using the direct selection tool if you wish to edit the individual points. Note: If you’ve selected the object already with the move tool, all points will be selected when you switch to the direct selection tool. So if you wanted to thicken lines in one area of a vector, or make a line longer, you can use the direct selection tool to edit that.

You might have a vector in your document if you have imported an SVG file or turned some type you had into outlines (which makes the type a vector image). So the direct selection tool is for editing anchor points on a vector (shortcut: A).

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