Hi, everyone in this video, we're gonna look at the difference between union. OK. At the top here between union and flatten the non destructive option and the terminal very destructive but sometimes useful option. All right, let's jump in. OK. Let's talk about union versus flatten. I'm going to use this example here onto a new page. If I go to outline mode, command, Y control Y on A PC, OK? You can see all of the stuff at the top here is cool that it's still editable but it makes a really messy document. OK? And you know, it can you see in here as well if I go into this union, let's call this my firehouse. OK? There's a lot going on in here. OK? And while it would be final export just fine, OK? What I want to do is actually just smush it down into a single drawing and that's where Flatten comes in. So we're going to take this example first. Let's make a copy of it over here. Let's go to outline view. OK? So I've got this thing and it's fully editable, which is nice, but actually I'm ju...

st going to go you flatten and it just gets it back to there. It is destructive, non destructive is the union that we did or in this case, we did intersect to get this one. So often you use flat and after you use one of these, OK. So we used uh intersect to make this one and then just to tidy it up, we went flatten. It's also good. When let's say that I'm going to grab my O for the circle tool. I'm gonna grab my rectangle tool and I'm going to draw myself a little man. OK. So I've done what? 12? I think they're different but 12 point he's a very stocky. He's meant to be my account man. He's very stocky. OK? He's the bouncer slash account icon. OK? Let's line him up. Now, if I've got this guy, I don't want to export him this way because it'll be two shapes. If I say file export, now we're gonna do inspect and exporting and stuff later on. But if I want to export this fella, he's gonna export two separate shapes to my developer and he's gonna go, why is there two shapes? OK. So normally you'd go union and that you could export, you could group it and export no difference. OK? But let's say I do, I'm gonna undo that first, I'm gonna have two versions. So this one's gonna be unioned and this one's going to be flattened. OK? And they look the same you're like, what's the difference here? It comes to things like scaling. Watch this. If I grab both of these holding shift down, scale them down, watch this one who's been radius has been set to twelveish. Can you see it tries to retain that 12? Whereas this one is flat and it's like smush to bits and I can go in here and say, um, the smooshed to bits. It doesn't know that it's a rounded corner anymore. It just knows that this is the shape. I'm always gonna be, I can go and customize it. I can say click on this anchor point here. There you go. My moon face bouncer. So flatten kind of destroys it, which is sometimes helpful. And union though would be more common, just leave it editable. You can scale it. Like if I undo that there is a way of getting around that whole problem with the Stroker on the outside or at least the radius, OK? You just use the scale tool instead of the selection tool. Hold shift still. Can you see it scales the radius and that Alright. Flatten is for tidying up messy things that you want to then go and edit on top of union. Like all the other Boolean operators are non destructive, you can edit them afterwards, which is probably more common. You'll do more of that anyway, that is it for this video. I'll see you in the next one.

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What Is The Difference? Union vs Flatten In Figma

What Is The Difference? Union vs Flatten In Figma

Lesson Info

51. What Is The Difference? Union vs Flatten In Figma

Lessons

Introduction to Figma Essentials

Getting Started with Figma Training

What Is Figma For & Does It Do The Coding?

What's The Difference Between UI And UX In Figma

What We Are Making In This Figma Course

Class Project 01 - Create Your Own Brief

What is Lo Fi Wireframe vs High Fidelity in Figma?

Creating Our Design File & Introducing Frames In Figma

The Basics Of Type & Fonts In Figma

Rectangles, Circles, Buttons And Rounded Corners In Figma

How To Use Color In Figma

Strokes Plus Updating Color Defaults In Figma

Object Editing And How To Escape In Figma

Scale vs Selection Tool in Figma

Frames vs Groups in Figma

Class Project 02 - Wireframe

Where To Get Free Icons For Figma

Matching The Stroke Of Our Icons

How To Use Plugins In Figma For Icons

Class Project 03 - Icons

How to Use Pages in Figma

How to Prototype in Figma

Prototype Animation and Easing In Figma

Testing On Your Phone with Figma Mirror

Class Project 04 - Testing On Your Phone

What is Smart Animation & Delays in Figma?

Class Project 05 - My First Animation

Sharing & Commenting on a Figma File with Stakeholders

Sharing & Editing With Other Ux Designers In Figma

How I Get Inspiration For Ux Projects

How To Create A Mood Board In Figma

Class Project 06 - Moodboard

How to Work with Columns & Grids in Figma

Tips, Tricks, Preferences, and Weirdness in Figma

Color Inspiration & The Eyedropper In Figma

How To Create A Color Palette In Figma

How to Make Gradients in Figma

How to Create & Use Color Styles in Figma

Class Project 07 - Colors & Columns

Fonts on Desktop vs in Browser in Figma

What Fonts Can I Use? Plus Font Pairing In Figma

What Common Font Sizes Should I Choose In Web Design?

How to Make Character Styles in Figma

Lorem Ipsum & Placeholder Text In Figma

Useful Things To Know About Text In Figma

How To Fix Missing Fonts In Figma

Class Project 08 - Text

Drawing Tips And Tricks In Figma

Squircle Buttons with ios Rounded Courses In Figma

Boolean, Union, Subtract, Intersect and Exclude with Pathfinder in Figma

What Is The Difference? Union vs Flatten In Figma

Class Project 09 - Making Stuff

Smart Selection & Tidy Up in Figma

Do I Need To Know Illustrator With Figma?

Tips & Tricks For Using Images In Figma

Masking & Cropping Images In Figma

Free Images & Plugins For Figma

Do You Need Photoshop For Ux Design In Figma?

Class Project 10 - Images

What Is Autolayout & Expanding Buttons In Figma?

Class Project 11 - Buttons

Auto Layout For Spacing

How To Use Constraints In Figma

Combining Nested Frames Auto Layout & Constraints in Figma

Adding Text Box Autoheight to Autolayout in Figma

Class Project 12 - Responsive Design

Nice Drop Shadow & Inner Drop Shadow Effects In Figma

Blur Layer, Background Blur & Image Blur in Figma

How to Make Neumorphic UI buttons in Figma

Class Project 13 - Effects

How To Save Locally & Save History In Figma

What are Components in Figma?

Updating, Changing & Resetting Your Components

You Can’t Kill Main Components In Figma