Consolidating nodes in a fill (along an edge)

[Anonymous]

There are often times when I'm combining fills together but over time it forms a lot of nodes along a single line (see attached). Is there a command where I can consolidate the nodes along a straight line of a fill?

[Erwin Edel]

Not that I'm aware of, the only work around I have is to magic wand a polyline to the fill and use line consolidation on that to break in to line and circle segments. This will get rid of unneeded extra nodes. You can then create a polyling again and magic wand a new fill to that polyline.

It sounds like a lot of work, but will not take very long to do.

[Eduardo Rolon]

You can drag the nodes one on top of the other and they will consolidate. There is no way to do an automatic clean up.

[DGSketcher]

Yes, but it isn't a one click solution and sometimes it is just quicker to drag the offending nodes to the next.

Ensure your fill has a boundary. Explode the shape, deleting the original. You then have to save the profile as GS won't let you pick the new entities if you don't. Delete the fill and you will be left with the outline. Select the lines. Select Edit>Reshape>Linetype Consolidation and go with the defaults. You will be left with the simplified outline which you can then refill.

I have on simpler shapes just deleted the shape and redrawn what was required.

Tip: If the offending nodes are present in adjoining fills at the same point, you can select both fills and drag them both to a new common point.

Someone beat me to it while I was distracted

[Barry Kelly · Accepted solution]

If you have a LOT of nodes along one edge, then you can also cut an area from the fill, removing all of those nodes.
Then you just need to adjust the edge and drag a couple of nodes onto the adjoining ones, instead of all the nodes one by one.

Barry.