Hi Jeff,

Maybe you could give a look to the "reshape features" tool 
(https://docs.qgis.org/testing/en/docs/user_manual/working_with_vector/editing_geometry_attributes.html#reshape-features)
 ?

Regards,
Harrissou

Le 4 mars 2022 20:47:11 GMT+01:00, Jeff Sonnentag <[email protected]> 
a écrit :
>Actually, that last part about clicking the mid-point + acting different 
>between line and polygon I just wrote is wrong.  Oops!  :D
>
>Still wish for the additional “continuation”/”addon” easy functionality 
>though. . . .
>
>
>From: Jeff Sonnentag
>Sent: Friday, March 4, 2022 11:41 AM
>To: DelazJ <[email protected]>; Nicolas Cadieux <[email protected]>
>Cc: QGIS User List <[email protected]>
>Subject: RE: [Qgis-user] Extending an existing line with the vertex tool - 
>combination with tracing possible?
>
>I had to test it out too, having wanted to do such things in the past and had 
>to click on the midpoint to add anything for each new point (then drag to 
>where it needs to be).
>
>Adding to the END of line segments works perfectly fine when the + is 
>selected.  Is there a similar function where any other point/vertex can be 
>started from for both line and polygons and just click where you want the next 
>vertex to be and not have to create and then move each new one?
>
>I think that is what people are asking about/wanting – but I may just be extra 
>confused now.  I didn’t know about clicking the + at the end of lines to 
>continue those, so that was useful to find out.  Now just need to know if 
>there is something exactly the same for every other vertex, not just ends of 
>lines.  :D
>
>But perhaps that + in the middle of polygon segments is supposed to indicate 
>the same thing, just that it doesn’t work the same way as at the ends of lines.
>
>Also just noticed that the behavior of the central + when editing vertices of 
>lines behaves differently than for polygons.  On polygons once you click the + 
>the point is stuck there (and you have to click it again if you want to move 
>it), but between points of lines when you click the + it remains selected and 
>moves with the pointer until you click again.
>
>It would be nice to be able to Ctrl/Shift/Alt/(something)-click that + between 
>vertices and then continue adding to anything (line or polygon) until there is 
>a right-click.
>
>
>From: Qgis-user 
><[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> 
>On Behalf Of DelazJ via Qgis-user
>Sent: Friday, March 4, 2022 1:43 AM
>To: Nicolas Cadieux 
><[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
>Cc: QGIS User List 
><[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
>Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Extending an existing line with the vertex tool - 
>combination with tracing possible?
>
>
>
>Le ven. 4 mars 2022 à 05:13, Nicolas Cadieux via Qgis-user 
><[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> a écrit :
>Hi,
>
>To my knowledge, when using the vertex tool, you click on the last node and 
>then, you can extend it once.  I think you need to reclick the last node again 
>if you want to add a new point.
>
>No, You don't need to reselect: Given an existing line, take the vertex tool, 
>move close to an end point, click on the '+' and you can extend it with as 
>many segments as you wish 
>(https://docs.qgis.org/3.22/en/docs/user_manual/working_with_vector/editing_geometry_attributes.html#basic-operations
> - adding vertices).
>The issue here, and I confirm Andreas' first message, is that the vertex tool 
>ignores the tracing option, you need t click every new vertices.
>Another issue I saw is that I spent a lot of time to find the tracing button: 
>it's available on the snapping toolbar, but not on the snapping Options widget 
>which opens (and I didn't enable the toolbar). I still have issues to 
>understand why we need two interfaces for these options, with tools that are 
>in one place and not in the other.
>
>Regards,
>Harrissou
>
> I don’t do much vectorizing lately and in the past, used AutoCAD to do it. 
> There must be some other way of doing it. Maybe there is a shortcut or 
> something like the shift key we need to use.  I would check the user manual 
> to see if there is an option under the vertex tool.  I see that lots of new 
> tools have been added lately making QGIS a good contender for tracing.  I 
> guess you could just create a new line and then merge both together.
>
>Just my grain of salt…
>Nicolas Cadieux
>https://gitlab.com/njacadieux
>
>Le 1 mars 2022 à 05:24, Andreas Neumann 
><[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> a écrit :
>
>
>Hi,
>
>When I am extending an existing line with the vertex tool (by enabling the 
>vertex tool and clicking on the small "plus" symbol), can I then still 
>activate the "tracing" functionality to follow along other features?
>
>If yes, I haven't found out how - any hints would be appreciated a lot!
>
>Thanks,
>
>Andreas
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