Affinity Designer - Selection Box

[th_studio]

Good day! I know there is a way to turn this base selection box into a regular selection box. But that's just temporary. Is it possible to keep the regular selection box forever? Base selection box is not always necessary, actually less necessary than the regular one. Any kind of help would be highly appreciated

[Callum]

As far as I'm aware it's not possible to keep the base box forever. I will move this thread to the feature requests section.

Thanks

C

[GarryP]

You can ‘convert’ a shape to a different orientation by using the Add geometry function (it’s a bit of a nasty way to do it but it works).
Just draw a new shape within the bounds of the original shape, select both, and use menu “Layer → Geometry → Add” (see attached GIF).

[carl123]

See this related thread

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/65851-affinity-designer-reset-selection-box/

 

[th_studio]

@Callum many thanks! Hopefully this issue will be solved in future update 

@GarryP thanks for the solution, although it's time consuming. We need a faster solution 

@carl123 thanks for sharing the link. Helped me a lot