Pigs_On_The_Wing

Yes, this would be a very very helpful addition to AD. The workflow that I've encountered is this:
- I have a complex design with many symbols in it. For example, many instances of a star.
- I want to introduce some variety, so I select 1/3 of the instances, and want to replace those with a different star., or a moon, or whatever.
Similarly, I might have used Copy/Paste or Duplicate on a Group, and only later realize that I want these to be instances of a symbol. If I could select those Groups and then replace them with a symbol, preserving their placement & scale, that would then allow me to edit them all together.
Without the ability to replace these, I need to manually drag a new Symbol instance out and transform it to match for *each* of the items I want to replace, which can take hours to do :(

I'm a board game designer who wants to make the jump from Adobe to Affinity. Replacing symbols is extremely useful for handling game icons. I would love to see this feature added to Affinity.

YES. This is very annoying as it takes so much time to reorder icons in all the personas. Also I'd like keep toolbars in sync between Publisher's personas and Photo + Designer main toolbar.

Problem
Even the most organized designers may find themselves needing to redefine a number of elements as symbols. After all, there are deadlines, the all too easy to use Copy / Paste / Duplicate options and other scenarios that keep us from relying on symbols.  But what is worst is that to go back and reorganize these elements as symbols can also be daunting, because of large number of nested layers and each with their own unique locations. 
 
Solution
Introduce a function that takes any element and replaces it with a symbol in its place. The function intelligently uses the same X-Y coordinates of the object its replacing to position itself automatically.
 
Result
With a Symbol Replace option, a user can Create their Symbol, and then go anywhere in the document and replace those items that should be that symbol.
• No need to drag the symbol into the canvas.
• No need to position that symbol into the correct location manually.
• No need to nest that symbol in the layers studio.
 
Thank you and pls consider !