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That's the whole point actually. Artboards are easy to customize when there is a problem in the workflow. Slices are not easy to edit once created. Artboards who act like slices is a problematic solution. If this problem is not easy to solve or points out a structural problem within Affinity software development then Affinity is no use for a lot of designers. Example: Think about an illustrator who is creating a lot of illustrations for a game lets say houses, characters, items etc. Typedesigner who is working on letters or an Icon designer creating thousands of icons. These type of designers can't work on a single canvas. They have to be able to modify a lot of canvases at the same time. This is a fundamental problem. If affinity team can solve it, I promise you all the hardcore designers will drop illustrator.

Dear @Dominic and @walt.farrell Thank you for your quick responses. I wasn't expecting to be able to group artboards. That does the trick for distributing artboards. But I sometimes need to redistribute all the artboards. Let's say I start working on the project with 5 rows and suddenly I need to see the project in 6 rows. Then I need to redistribute all the artboards because the artboard names are unique to each design. With this solution, I will have to group every 6 artboards and redistribute them. The problem is that each 6 artboards are now in two rows. So the artboards will be mixed up. Let's say it was going like 1,2,3,4,5 This time it will be like 1,4,3,6,5,2. And there are 500 artboards. I found another missing feature while testing. I can't see artboard bounds when I place them in another artboard. Let's say I have 100x100 canvas and a 70x70 canvas in it. I have to press the Outline View Mode button every time I need to see the artboard. There must be a view mode that shows canvas bounds. The third missing thing is artboard names of the old illustrator files. I hope the developers team can solve it. I have thousands of valuable illustrator files that contain very important artboard names. And I don't want to keep adobe programs on my computer. After spotting the missing things I realized that each artboard has its own x,y attributes when I copy paste my designs to an other software. Also each artboard has its own grids. This is a big plus for Affinity @Pšenda Artboards are life-saving when you need to do a Font design that includes multiple vector elements which have to be exported afterward. While you work on the project, you desire to see the whole objects and the entire process aligned into grids before you start on the project.

Nice to meet you @Dominik, Lets say, I would like to create 200 artboards with 5 columns and 40 rows with 100px space between them. Is there an easy way to do this? I tried to do it with converting objects to artboards but the system doesn't let me convert multiple objects to artboards.

Dear Affinity Developer Team. I purchased Affinity designer a few months ago but I still couldn't switch from illustrator yet and I feel very frustrated about it. There are two reasons. 1. When I import an illustrator file the name of the artboards doesn't show up which is very very important for me because the name of the artboards include very important data for my workflow. 2. The creating artboards on Affinity designer is a huge problem when you need to need create 500 artboards. The artboards are impossible to distribute. I would be very happy if you can update us on this matter. I really like affinity and I am ready to switch but because of these problems, it makes it impossible for me to switch because I have thousands of illustrator files with lots of files with dartboard names in them. Warm Regards, OZ