To round the corners of a rectangle or square

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2. Click and drag one of the corner nodes along the outline of the rectangle or square. As you drag, the four corner nodes each divide into two nodes with a round corner forming in between. As you continue to drag, the corners become increasingly round.

Note

pre00002.gif You can round the corners of a rectangle and then make them sharp again.

Tip

pre00002.gif You can use the Shape tool to round all of the corners of a rectangle (or square) at the same time. A rectangle has a node at each corner. When you round the corners of a rectangle, each corner node splits in two and an arc appears between each of these two new nodes. You can control the size of this arc by moving any of the corner nodes. Whenever you change one corner, the other three corners also change.

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To shape a curve object

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Shaping lines, curves, and curve objects

Selecting and deselecting objects