Roger Lievens Posted October 18, 2019 Share Posted October 18, 2019 Where can I find the "Selection box from Curves" button in Affinity designer !! Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Dan C Posted October 18, 2019 Staff Share Posted October 18, 2019 Hi Roger Lievens In the Pixel Persona of Affinity Designer you can CTRL/CMD + click on a layer to create a selection from it - is this what you're looking for? Quote Please note - I am currently out of the office for a short while whilst recovering from surgery (nothing serious!), therefore will not be available on the Forums during this time. Should you require a response from the team in a thread I have previously replied in - please Create a New Thread and our team will be sure to reply as soon as possible. Many thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Oehlschlager Posted October 18, 2019 Share Posted October 18, 2019 @Roger Lievens Are you talking about the Cycle Selection Box button that reveals a selection box that is tight to the vector object? See attached screenshots. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Lievens Posted October 19, 2019 Author Share Posted October 19, 2019 Best, First of all, thank you for your response to my question. But I found this on the Affinity Help under the "Node" and then went looking for where I could find this in the program. I have enclosed a copy of this thanks for your support. I am working on a course in Dutch for my students Roger Belgium - Bruges Dan C 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Oehlschlager Posted October 19, 2019 Share Posted October 19, 2019 Well, here's what I discovered through trial and error: Notice in my screenshots below that it's possible to select three node on a curve where the resulting Selection Box fits to the selected nodes but NOT the curve. However, if I click the "Selection Box From Curves" button, the Selection Box now fits the curve described by the nodes. I have no idea how this might be useful or relevant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted October 19, 2019 Share Posted October 19, 2019 19 hours ago, Roger Lievens said: Where can I find the "Selection box from Curves" button in Affinity designer !! It is available only when Transform Mode is enabled. 2 hours ago, Mark Oehlschlager said: I have no idea how this might be useful or relevant. Not a great example but consider rotating 3 nodes like those selected in your first screenshot. Below, the black curve is the original one & the red & green ones are what it looks like after being rotated with & without "Selection Box from Curves" enabled. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Lievens Posted October 19, 2019 Author Share Posted October 19, 2019 Thank you for your response, but where can I find the button for the "Selection box from Curves in the program ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted October 19, 2019 Share Posted October 19, 2019 1 hour ago, Roger Lievens said: where can I find the button for the "Selection box from Curves Are you asking how to turn a vector object (curves) into a pixel selection? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted October 19, 2019 Share Posted October 19, 2019 1 hour ago, Roger Lievens said: where can I find the button for the "Selection box from Curves Make sure the context toolbar is visible. If it is not, enable it by selecting "Show Context Toolbar" on the View menu. Select one or more vector objects using the Node Tool. On the context toolbar click the Transform Mode button. Refer to the icon in the help topic if you don't know which one that is or look for this button: The Selection Box From Curves button looks like this: Note that it only useful for manipulating the nodes of curve objects. Mark Oehlschlager 1 Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Lievens Posted October 21, 2019 Author Share Posted October 21, 2019 Thanks for all the Information Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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