145 There are five Dash Style options to produce even more designing capability, especially, when thencombined with the seven different start and end cap options. Here are a few examples:7.12 Draw Bézier Curves and Straight Lines (Pen Tool) The Draw Bézier Curves and Straight Lines function (Pen Tool) is the 4th icon on the Node ModeToolbar and can be activated by clicking the icon or by pressing F4. Use this tool to draw new paths. It canbe a bit tricky to master but just like with many good things- practice makes perfect!Drawing Straight Lines To draw a single straight line, use your mouse to left click once where you want to start the line and thenright click where you want to end the line. Each click produces a node: If you wish to continue drawing a connecting straight line path, then instead of right clicking to end, keep leftclicking. At any point you can right click to add the last node and end the drawing of straight lines: On the other hand, if you are creating a closed path, then just as the mouse cursor approaches the startingnode, the shape will fill with color and you can click one last time to end the process. You do not have toright click to end the drawing if the shape is closed:Left click onceto begin.Move cursor to where you wantto finish the line.Right click to end drawing of the line.Left click to start and leftclick at 2nd locationMove to 3rd location and leftclick again.Move to 4th location and left click again.Move to 5th location and left click again. If you are finished drawing, right click to end.Choose from Solid, Dash, Dot,Dash Dot, or Dash Dot Dot
