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Restructure the layout of "Understanding Tool Modes"
Signed-off-by: REDFLAG-bugs <[email protected]>
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content/en/kanvas/designer/understanding-tool-modes/index.md

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### 2. Pencil Mouse Mode
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Pencil lines do not connect individual components but offer annotating capability, allowing you to take notes and draw annotations.
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Pencil lines do not connect individual components, but offer annotating capability, allowing you to take notes and draw annotations to enhance your designs.
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| Action | Cursor Style | Behavior | |
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The Pen tool operates as a creator of annotation edges. It has two behaviors depending on context.
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**Activate:** `CMD+E`
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**To Activate:** `CMD+E`
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<details>
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<summary><strong>Connector Behaviors</strong></summary>
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- **Component-connect Behavior**: Click an empty spot drag to another empty spot → create a **joint** (terminal node) for new connections.
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- **Canvas-connect Behavior**: Click an empty spot drag to an existing component → create an annotation edge.
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- **Component-connect Behavior**: When you click an empty spot on the canvas, and drag to another empty spot on the canvas, you get a joint (aka a terminal node) from which you can create new connections as well as new edge relationships.
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- **Canvas-connect Behavior**: When you click an empty spot on the canvas, and drag to an existing component, you get an annotation edge relationship.
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</details>
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| Phase | Cursor Style | Behavior | |
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| Example | |
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| How to Draw and Connect Lines | <img src="./draw_line.gif" style="width:1000px;" alt="Draw line" /> |
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| How to customize nodes at the ends | <img src="./customize_end.gif" style="width:1000px;" alt="Customize nodes" /> |
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| How to Draw and Connect Lines | <img src="./draw_line.gif" style="width:1000px;" alt="Draw line" /> |
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| How to customize nodes at the ends of connections | <img src="./customize_end.gif" style="width:1000px;" alt="Customize nodes" /> |
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| Action | Cursor Style | Behavior |
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| **Hover** | `hand` | Nothing | |
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| **Click-and-hold** | `grabbing-hand` | Grab the canvas and pan
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| **Scroll wheel + CMD/CTL** | `grabbing-hand` | Zoom in/out
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| **Horizontal scroll wheel** | `grabbing-hand` | Pan left or right
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| **Click-and-hold** | `grabbing-hand` | Grab the canvas and pan in the direction of mouse movement |
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| **Scroll wheel + CMD/CTL** | `grabbing-hand` | Zoom in/out in the direction of the mouse. |
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| **Horizontal scroll wheel** | `grabbing-hand` | Pan left or right in the direction of the mouse. |
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