Thanks much for the reply.
I indeed hit Enter to commit (that's when the solid line turned into marching ants), if I'm understanding you correctly, and the grid stuff you mentioned looks okay (I think). Well, I didn't have snap to grid on, but I just did a quick test and that didn't really help. The big problem is that, after the first outline is "committed" everything looks fine for a while during my node-by-node drawing of the second outline but, as soon as I hit Enter again (to commit to that second outline), the first outline disappears. If I CTRL-Z to undo, I get the first one back but have to start over on the second. I lost count how many times I did that while doing my editing (literally spent hours doing something I thought would take 15 minutes - I wasn't doing anything really complex), and ended up with something a lot more ragged than I'd hoped for since I was reluctant to use too many nodes, especially around corners.
And what really baffles me is that holding down CTRL, while making the second outline, seems to be a work around for that (ignoring that, sometimes, the node placement gets extremely inaccurate). But, even then, only sometimes. That seemed very arbitrary although my best guess (?) was that it had something to do with the number of nodes I used in the outline (or both combined maybe). It seemed like it was while making the more node-heavy ones where I was never, even with holding CTRL, able to get the second outline established without the first one disappearing. But, if I didn't keep CTRL pressed while making the second outline the first one disappeared every time when I hit Enter to try and establish the second one (and I mean holding CTRL down constantly, o/w it seemed like it was always doomed to failure).
I even started to wonder if it was something buggy with 2.10.4, as I believe it is only a few weeks old. But I'm very reluctant to start blaming the program considering my skillset is so crap. Although maybe something went south on the install? 'Cuz I find this super-weird.
I indeed hit Enter to commit (that's when the solid line turned into marching ants), if I'm understanding you correctly, and the grid stuff you mentioned looks okay (I think). Well, I didn't have snap to grid on, but I just did a quick test and that didn't really help. The big problem is that, after the first outline is "committed" everything looks fine for a while during my node-by-node drawing of the second outline but, as soon as I hit Enter again (to commit to that second outline), the first outline disappears. If I CTRL-Z to undo, I get the first one back but have to start over on the second. I lost count how many times I did that while doing my editing (literally spent hours doing something I thought would take 15 minutes - I wasn't doing anything really complex), and ended up with something a lot more ragged than I'd hoped for since I was reluctant to use too many nodes, especially around corners.
And what really baffles me is that holding down CTRL, while making the second outline, seems to be a work around for that (ignoring that, sometimes, the node placement gets extremely inaccurate). But, even then, only sometimes. That seemed very arbitrary although my best guess (?) was that it had something to do with the number of nodes I used in the outline (or both combined maybe). It seemed like it was while making the more node-heavy ones where I was never, even with holding CTRL, able to get the second outline established without the first one disappearing. But, if I didn't keep CTRL pressed while making the second outline the first one disappeared every time when I hit Enter to try and establish the second one (and I mean holding CTRL down constantly, o/w it seemed like it was always doomed to failure).
I even started to wonder if it was something buggy with 2.10.4, as I believe it is only a few weeks old. But I'm very reluctant to start blaming the program considering my skillset is so crap. Although maybe something went south on the install? 'Cuz I find this super-weird.