One of the most powerful things that can be done with the version 9 is shown on minutes 32 to 40 on this youtube video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2Eg6CzBmQE
There's a tutorial on the Vectric site that talks to each of the modes but I found this to be more informative than the tutorials which are 'how to' versus feature enlightening.
If time would permit, one could do a lot of very fancy stuff with that program. I haven't really concentrated on version 9 but intend to soon. I can never find that 'rountuit' when I need it.