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Allow for Select Same to be limited to the current artboard the user is on. Perhaps another checkbox that says "limit to active artboard" or "within same artboard only"

Hmmm, I think I figured out a way to get into it. I have to right click on the layer and then choose "Release Mask" i have to say overall Xara did a better job giving me access to the nodes right away. Obviously starting from Sketch was a problem, Sketch is weird, in several things it does, including how it treats multi-shaped objects.

I was working with Sketch and I wanted to move some icons over to affinity to update them. So I exported a PDF of the art board. The icons come in looking fine but I can never get access to the nodes of the shapes. There's a bounding box around the file in some sort of mask. But it's not a bitmap. In xara, I can modify the nodes right away. I didn't try illustrator but I was able to disassemble the objects by doing a series of ungroups and I could release the clips. I don't have that ability in affinity for some reason. Actually I just realized if I import the PDF into inkscape using the Poppler/Cairo import I can edit the paths right away and there's no crazy clipping going on. I'd be curious if anyone else can work with it in Affinity or knows how I can break these down into the component shapes outside of their clip paths or whatever is containing them. icons.pdf