Anchor/handle size

Hi guys,.

I'm new to Illustrator and I fight with the line Segment tool. When I draw a line and then try to add another line to its end, the cursor turns into an arrow what I can do is drag the existing line and change its angle and not add another line. It's like the size of the handle is too big for values below the race, because when I increase the values of race to say 60 I can see the existing line and join. I guess that the question is how to reduce the size of the handle. I looked in preferences, but this doesn't seem to help.

Thank you

If you want to draw a continuous line, you must use the pentool. Just click-click-click to get straight lines.

If you need single line segments to draw, you must deselect the first line, before starting a new st line the end point. Press Cmd + shift + to do (Win: Ctrl)

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