Hello, I've been using inkscape mostly for engineering purposes for about 15years and I'd like to know if there's a hidden menu somewhere or a keyboard key to press which allows to intersect a selection with another. At the moment I need to select objects with the same fill, then I want to intersect this selection with a box selection to restrict the area I'm selecting. Is this possible somehow?
Suppose you want to select all the pink filled shapes within a box selection.
Select one pink shape and then [Edit > Select Same > Fill Colour]. [Object > Selectors and CSS...] opens a dialog. At the bottom of the dialog, click [+] to create a new CSS Class and apply it to the selected shapes. This opens a text input dialog to name the Class. I suggest something simple like "pink" then [Add].
Back to the canvas and make your rectangular selection. [Edit > Find/Replace...] opens a dialog. [Find: pink] (or whatever class name you added) [Search in: Properties] [Scope: Selection] [Find]
You can extend this method to multiple classes. Any selection on the canvas can be assigned a class and you can sub-select any combination of classes by repeated [Find] operations. For example [Find: green_text] followed by [Find: italic]
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Hello, I've been using inkscape mostly for engineering purposes for about 15years and I'd like to know if there's a hidden menu somewhere or a keyboard key to press which allows to intersect a selection with another. At the moment I need to select objects with the same fill, then I want to intersect this selection with a box selection to restrict the area I'm selecting. Is this possible somehow?
Thank you!!
Suppose you want to select all the pink filled shapes within a box selection.
Select one pink shape and then [Edit > Select Same > Fill Colour].
[Object > Selectors and CSS...] opens a dialog.
At the bottom of the dialog, click [+] to create a new CSS Class and apply it to the selected shapes.
This opens a text input dialog to name the Class. I suggest something simple like "pink" then [Add].
Back to the canvas and make your rectangular selection.
[Edit > Find/Replace...] opens a dialog.
[Find: pink] (or whatever class name you added)
[Search in: Properties]
[Scope: Selection]
[Find]
You can extend this method to multiple classes. Any selection on the canvas can be assigned a class and you can sub-select any combination of classes by repeated [Find] operations. For example [Find: green_text] followed by [Find: italic]
Thank you Paddy_CAD, this is exactly what I was looking for!