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View > View Mode > Clip to Canvas is always off in a document that contains Artboards, @CLC.

@Alexis3: If an object crosses an Artboard boundary, the portion of the object outside the Artboard will always be invisible in Designer.

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On 11/29/2020 at 7:56 AM, CLC said:

Hi @Alexis3.

Try View > View Mode > (untick) Clip to canvas (or just hit the backslash key "\" that is a default key to toggle the switch).

 

16 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

View > View Mode > Clip to Canvas is always off in a document that contains Artboards, @CLC.

@Alexis3: If an object crosses an Artboard boundary, the portion of the object outside the Artboard will always be invisible in Designer.

Guys thank you both! it's worked!

thank you thank you thank you!

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21 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

View > View Mode > Clip to Canvas is always off in a document that contains Artboards, @CLC.

@Alexis3: If an object crosses an Artboard boundary, the portion of the object outside the Artboard will always be invisible in Designer.

Ok, Walter.
Anyway. it can be done with a bit of effort and an object can span multiple artboards from what I gathered.
You only have to disable "Edit all layers" or it will suck the objects in. Not perfect and should be fixed as @JGD mentions elsewhere.

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10 hours ago, CLC said:

Anyway. it can be done with a bit of effort and an object can span multiple artboards from what I gathered.

How did you manage to do that? The closest I can get to it is to add an object that is not part of any artboard.

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28 minutes ago, R C-R said:

How did you manage to do that? The closest I can get to it is to add an object that is not part of any artboard.

Indeed, that us what I’ve done. Just look at the layers panel on my screenshot, it’ll become obvious (call it thinking outside the box if you want to).

However, it’s tedious to work with such layers, since we don’t have a proper lock layer function. Once you manage to click the object(s) that span across the layers, it will be “sucked” into the artboard layer you clicked in (due to the weird tree artboard / object system affinity uses... the only way is to disable Edit all layers switch, but that’s another hassle...

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6 minutes ago, CLC said:

Just look at the layers panel on my screenshot, it’ll become obvious.

From that panel it looks like the 'MTX' object is in a group that is not part of either artboard -- it is simply above both of them.

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Won't you also have issues Exporting an object that is positioned like that?

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