Showing or Hiding Bezier Handles

Each control point forming a path has two Bezier Handles. When you select one or more control points, the handles of them will show. However, if you simply want to re-shape the path by transforming the control points, then you can hide the bezier handles. Show the handles only when you need to change the path shape by the handles.

Bezier handles are hidden for better observations and adjustments of the control points

Bezier handles are shown (default) for re-shaping the curve between control points.

Showing / Hiding Bezier Handles

  1. Create a path (take the path shown above as an example).
  2. Select the path and click the Edit Point button on the Modify panel to go into path edit mode.

    Alternatively, you can right-click on the path and choose Path >> Edit Path to enter the path edit mode.
  3. Click on the desired control point. You will see, by default, the Bezier Handles display bilaterally.
  4. Right click elsewhere and disabled the Show Bezier Handles item on the right-click menu.
  5. The handles are hidden for better observation or modification for the control points.
  6. To show the handles, repeat the same steps and enable Show Bezier Handles.