So now that we have introduced both the pen and the know tools, and now that we have seen that they share a big part of a connection menu, for sure, not the not in the mode because this belongs to their pen to bots, their sections for convert, which we already have seen, action and snap, or share. And well, this lesson is just to talk about this second section, which is actions. And I'm going to show you how to work better with them together, applying all of them. Let's go and see it. And what I want to do first is I'm going to trace here, this curve. And you're gonna see here that we have four nodes.

I'm going to select the node tool because I want to talk about several things that you're going to need in order to just you know, draw better and manipulate all your notes and your sex Let's say for example, that I just finished throwing this curve. And I'm, of course with a pencil here, and I select this node. And I want to activate the first section, which is break the curve. And I click here. And now I say, Okay, I need to know if this actually worked. Okay, so what we do is we press Command C, now how it changes from the pen tool to the note tool, just temporarily.

And I click on the note, and I just test if it really worked, and it did. So this is for the first section. Let's see now the second one, which is close curve. So we select one of the curves. And what it's going to do is close it within itself. It's going to join the last and the first node and closest curve.

Let's see how it works just clicking on it and you still get See it, close it. And basically Well, that's it. Not a big mystery. Also for this one. We're now going to see the next one, which is a smooth curve, where I'm going to draw a new one because this is not the best one. So say you have this pretty smooth curve, let's say because it's full of smooth nodes.

And I come here and I say smooth curve, what is going to do is add in new, soft or smooth notes to my segment to my curve in such a way that it will result in a smoother curve. So just check a cyclic and smooth how it adds new notes. And as you can see, now, this is full of little sub notes. The truth is that it didn't change anything on the curve. Other than Just because it has more smooth nodes, now you're going to be able to adjust the smoothing by, you know, manipulating them. So let's see the next one, which is join curves.

Okay, so remember that we broke a curve before, just by breaking it like this. Okay, let's see what happens when we click on join curves. Well, you saw it, it just created this straight line here. I'm going to repeat it, okay, you obviously have to have them both selected, you click on join curves, and they just joined together, okay, and last, this one, which is reverse curves, but what it's going to do is it's going to change the last node from the last to the first is going to reverse. So see here that we have both of the red last notes in each of the cards. We click on reverse curves.

Now we have them here. And as we know by now this contextual menu is shared by pen and no tools