SAi FlexiSTARTER Box and Inclined Bounding Select (Part 8) Working with Paths Mini-Series

This way of selecting path points is a great way to go about when wanting to make larger selections.

You will also notice that the new incline bounding selection option will really help you with those more complex shapes.

This video is part of a Mini-Series.
Next video covers Path Point Types.
Previous video covered Selecting Path Points.

Video Transcript

How are you guys in today's video? Flexi starter. We're gonna be looking at the box and incline bounding Select. But before that, let's have a quick intro first. Yeah, okay. Yeah. So today's video can be found A softwaretraining.co.za. We make short and easy to watch problem solving videos and we have daily updates otherwise, back in the programme. Yeah. Now, just a quick reminder. This is a miniseries on Working With Paths. And in today's video, we're gonna be looking at using the box select or the girls and the incline bounding Select. So now, first of all, what I wanna do is make sure my selection tool in the world which is not your classic selecting but rather than I'm select point to which the short government end on our main toolbar. That little arrow with a red circle on the path You know that selected I'm just gonna change my view so we can see the paths better. So under view our top main menu here we navigate to show false. Now, as you can see, we can only see basically the strokes or the pots. So now, with the tool selected without select points selected. Can somebody just left click and drag a boundary box and whichever points for under that will be selected. So this is a great way if you wanna make quick changes or if you want to move a portion of your, um, actual shape and you can just quickly do this. But when you're working with a more you need shape like this with a lot of inclines in that it can get quite tricky. For instance, let's say we want to just select this bottom piece. Then instead of going manually, which you can keep shifting and you click these, um, you would want to just draw selecting box, and this can get tricky in this area. If you're really skilled, you can still get it right trying to stay within the boundary, but you can see it gets quite a trick. Same with this area here. If you want to select just these two bottom ones, then um, you really have to try to stay strictly within the balance, which you can see threshold. Select that one as well. So you have to zoom in and just becomes a lot of work, so it is more horizontal and vertical type shapes. Then, uh, box select looks nice, but what you can do is if you keep controlling and then you use your left mouse button and you draw the angle that you want to select in. So in my case, it will be in line with those. Then I leave control, but not my left mouse button. So only leave control. Now. If I move my mouth, you can see I get the selecting boundary on that incline. Then I can simply just leave. And I have those shapes and elected like eyes. With this, I can simply just keep control, click and drag. And then I leave control, make a boundary, uh, bounding selection box and then select, which is quite convenient. So just a quick recap again. You can just use your normal click and drag to select the bounding box oil for inclines. You can use control and you left, click and drag the angle. You want it? It's gonna be in any angle so you can change it if you want to rather select the top year or the bottom. Here we leave control again and then you'll see we've got this bounding box. As you can see, we can adjust the size stall like a normal bounding box, and then when you leave your left mouse button now it will select those points relevant. Otherwise, that is it on the boxing incline, bounding. Select. If we head here to softwaretraining.co.za hat's the other. Today you guys got a variety of different software to recover, and also you can isolate your search on the top of right. Just type what you're looking for. A needle magnifying glass, but otherwise, if you still run dry, you don't find any results. You always go here, requested trading video, fill in the mini form, and then we will make that video for you. But otherwise thanks guys for watching and cheers.