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Kurt Gold
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March 9, 2025
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Selector

  • March 9, 2025
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Roughly how long would it take for you to reliably select all objects that are completely located inside of the light green marked paths in the screenshot below when you are just using any of the default selection tools in Illustrator?

 

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Kurt Gold
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March 10, 2025

You can download a similar Illustrator file here and try the desired selection:

 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DU1n1utWQb9BxA5LlMEs46udtU0Dqh_T/view?usp=sharing

 

The question remains:

 

About how long does it take for you to reliably select all objects that are completely located inside of paths P1, P2 and P3 (see "Selector" layer in the Layer panel)?

 

 

Doug A Roberts
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March 10, 2025

At least several annoying minutes, I would expect.

Bill Silbert
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March 9, 2025

Are the line segments that are outside of the green lines separate from the ones that are inside of the green lines? If they are separate then you could select them and the green lines first and then lock them (Command/Control-2). Then a simple "Select All" or marquising with the regular selection tool would select all of the rest instantly. Since the posed question only referred to the lines inside of the green lines how long it would take to select the lines that are to be locked would be irrelevant.

Kurt Gold
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March 10, 2025

Thank you for your answer, Bill.

 

Just to clarify: I'm not really asking for advice how to do it with the default selection tools in Illustrator. I'm pretty sure I know how to use them.

 

I'm merely asking about how long (roughly) it would take for you to do the selection in that specific circular scenario. And it is not meant to be an isolated scenario. There could be countless other (unlocked) objects around in the file that would not be related to the objetcs in question.