Smooth Tool slider applies to a partial selection. Make a way to quickly apply it to the full selection
According to Madelyn Renaud (form here: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/938463/suggestions/46987777):
'I also have not been able to find the option for a global selection vs local, so the tool continues to isolate a single edge, forcing me to return to the selection tool and re-select the other elements to begin smoothing again. It's horrible and has made a smooth workflow into something clunky and annoying. Please change the smooth tool back to the way it was before!'
Indeed, when using the slider together with Smooth tool, Ai selects the portion of the path which has just been affected by the tool. The slider then applies to this partial selection only. If one choses to apply this to the whole path instead, they are forced to reselect the whole path, and there is no a way to quickly do that with the slider itself.
Sure, one can just learn to do that, but in heat of editing you just can easily miss some points are deselected.
AdminEgor Chistyakov
(Admin, Adobe Illustrator)
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A related report:
Smooth function converts smooth endpoints in a partial selection into sharp ones
http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/48779402