What Is the Difference Between the Scissors Tool and the Knife Tool in Illustrator?
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What is the difference between the Scissors tool and the Knife tool? The Scissors tool is meant to split a path at an anchor point or along a segment. The Knife tool cuts objects along a path you draw with the tool, dividing objects.

What is the difference between the scissors tool and knife tool?

The scissors tool cuts along a path. … The knife tool cuts a path, but unlike the eraser tool, doesn’t make any areas disappear.

What is the Scissors tool in Illustrator?

The Scissors tool splits a path, graphics frame, or empty text frame at an anchor point or along a segment. Click and hold the Eraser ( ) tool to see and choose the Scissors ( ) tool. Click the path where you want to split it. When you split the path, two endpoints are created.

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