Edit Curve without Edit Mode?

[espr3ss0]

I’ve set up a Curve with a Mesh and wondering if I can change it without editing the points?

It’s an array of lights and want to position it within a scene but not sure what the usual practice is. Also wondering how I can link it into a scene and change it there.

[elliottornay (digital·weirdos)]

Hi!
Maybe you can select a point in edit mode and press hook (H). This will parent the point to an empty object.
Then you can move, keyframe or anything that one.

[espr3ss0]

Will give it a try. Does the Object Origin stay the same though?

[elliottornay (digital·weirdos)]

Sorry, I mean CTRL+H
Yes, the origin point of the curve will be at the same point.

[espr3ss0]

Nice, thank u.

[NewVisitor]

This can be done very comfortably with the Flexi Bezier Tool.

Flexi Bezier Tool

The Bézier Toolkit add-on has a number of utility ops and tools for working with Bézier curves in Blender. The important ones are: Flexi Draw Bézier for quickly creating Bézier curves and primitive shapes like circle, ellipse (with variable segments), polygon and star Flexi Edit Bézier for interactively editing the curves and shape keys in Object Mode (features include: direct segment editing by dragging any point on curve, adding points or tangent at any position on segment, deleting segme…