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Shortcut to Add or Delete Points of an Area or Perimeter

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To save a lot of time measuring it would be useful to use a shortcut instead of mouseclicks to adjust the shape of your measurement.

Now I use this method:

Rightclick=>Control Points=>
• Add Point (mousepointer positioned on line where to add an extra point)
• Delete Point (mousepointer positioned on point to delete )

You could use this point feature in:
Tools=>Measuring Tools=> Perimeter Tool, Area Tool
Tools=> comment and markup tools=> Polyline, Polygon, Cloud

Does anyone know a shortcut or other faster solution for this?
Last edited by stv on Sat Jun 20, 2020 8:01 am, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: Shortcut to Add or Delete Points of an Aerea or Perimeter

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Hello stv,

I've just created a feature request ticket in our internal system:
#5240: FR: Ability to be able to Add and Remove points to a polygon/area/perimeter tools with keyboard shortcuts
So that our developers can include this in their schedule, and as soon as there are any news - we will post again here.

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Re: Shortcut to Add or Delete Points of an Area or Perimeter

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Hello team,

Is there any news regarding this feature request ticket ?
I would like to use shortcuts for adding / removing control points with "Polygon line tool" (not just "Polygon" tool).
In our activity, we have to deliver higlighted flow (P&ID) drawings, that could help us a lot to have those shortcut being more efficient working on this task.

Thanks a lot !
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Re: Shortcut to Add or Delete Points of an Area or Perimeter

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Hi Sinaptik,

at present this request has not been actioned, and it does not have a developer assigned it yet. I can increase the priority on the ticket, however at the end of the day the choice as to which of the many feature requests to implement will remain at the discretion of the Development Team Leader.

I would be very surprised to see this before the initial release of V9 in September, it is more likely to be in a build after that.

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Re: Shortcut to Add or Delete Points of an Area or Perimeter

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Hi there,

I also would like to jump into this discussion/feature request as i would also love to see progress on it :-)

Thats why i am asking: is there any progress on that?

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Re: Shortcut to Add or Delete Points of an Area or Perimeter

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Hello cfessler,

Thanks for adding your vote for this feature! I've updated the ticket to reflect this!

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Re: Shortcut to Add or Delete Points of an Area or Perimeter

Post by Samuel.Kupke@acciona.com »

Hi Tracker Software,

I agree with the comments made here and believe that if you were able to advance this feature the PDF Exchange Software would become a far superior PDF editing software on the market than other competitors.

I work in the construction industry on the project management side and use the software to basically scale and measure quantities from PDF construction drawings.

I really love the functionality and utility that we get with the PDF Exchange software. Kudos on making such a brilliant product!

One thing that does let me down though is the amount of time spent clicking to edit points for polylines or polygon shapes. It is pretty frustrating, so I am hoping that my post here will have some influence on you to further develop the software to include this feature.

I would really like to see an easier way to add and delete points from the polygons and lines.

From other applications that I have used they seem to have a feature that you can add a new point by simply clicking on a semi-transparent midpoint between two already created points on the shape. That is literally 1 click and drag to select location to add a new point!

The softwares that I know use this for their polygons are
- Nearmaps
- MetroMaps

In MS Word you can add a points to drawn shapes by clicking and dragging anywhere on the line. You select the "edit points" feature then just go to the line and click and drag, and you can do it as many times as you like so long as you remain in the edit points mode.

For reference, I have attached images demonstrating how these work.

Another feature in MS Word I like for editing points on shape is while in the "edit points" mode and holding down CTRL when you hover over the points and click you can delete that point immediately. Saving a substantial amount of time. I have again attached an image showing this.

To the Development Team Leader, I really hope that you take the time to read this post sincerely and even more so hope that you take on board the comments determine a way of simplifying the add/delete points feature of the PDF Exchange software for the benefit of all end users.

Thank You.

Sam.
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NearMap - Creating New Points.JPG
MS-Word - Edit Points - Deleting Points.JPG
MS-Word - Edit Points - Creating New Points.JPG
MetroMap - Creating New Points.JPG
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Re: Shortcut to Add or Delete Points of an Area or Perimeter

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Re: Shortcut to Add or Delete Points of an Area or Perimeter

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Hi Dev Team,

Any updates on this one?

We're pretty keen to get some feedback.

Thanks,

Your loyal end users.
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Re: Shortcut to Add or Delete Points of an Area or Perimeter

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Hello Samuel.Kupke@acciona.com,

No update currently I am afraid - but I've raised the priority of the ticket!

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Re: Shortcut to Add or Delete Points of an Area or Perimeter

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Is there any update on this feature request? It really is the biggest drag having to use multiple clicks to add and remove control points.
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Re: Shortcut to Add or Delete Points of an Area or Perimeter

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Hello FazerDude,

I've checked the ticket, however I am afraid there has been no movement in it since the last time!
I've once again asked for an update and some further info on the status of this and will post again here as soon as that is available!

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Stefan
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