Alternative simplify command via warp AI

Why didn’t anyone tell me about this method yet???

Traced a number of icons but simplify path was either doing waaaaaaaaaay too much simplifying, nothing, or adding extra nodes.

Well, warp can do a similar thing but limited to a brush size area similar to selecting an area of nodes and simplify. Just so much faster. A number of other ways to do it listed here too. Don’t know if it still works this was for the newer versions but i have an old one and this link is 2014.

http://vectorboom.com/load/tips/techniques/some_ways_to_simplify_path_or_reduce_extra_points_in_illustrator/16-1-0-452

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I don’t think I’ve ever seen that trick with the warp tool. Looks like a good one for free-form type stuff.

I signed up for Astute Graphics (more for making puzzles than simplify stuff), but the simplify tool in that is phenomenal!

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