retrograde Posted February 11, 2016 Posted February 11, 2016 Is there a way to duplicate an art board and have the layer structure you already have on the first art board carry over to a duplicated art board? I just created a second art board and copy dragged my art over to the second art board and it lost all of the layer hierarchy I had set up. Do I need to copy and paste to retain the structure? Thanks. edit - just tried the copy and paste method and it didn't honour the layer structure it juste pastes everything in... Quote http://www.kevincreative.com https://www.behance.net/kevincreative https://dribbble.com/kevincreative https://www.instagram.com/kevincreative/
crabtrem Posted February 12, 2016 Posted February 12, 2016 I selected an artboard with layers and copied it using Option-drag, and Cmd-J, and both copied over all layers intake. I may be misunderstanding your requirements. I did a copy and paste and had my layers in place too. ? Not sure I understand your problem. Sorry. Better wait for an expert. All I can think of is that I had the artboard layer selected. Quote
Staff MEB Posted February 12, 2016 Staff Posted February 12, 2016 Hi retrograde, Unless you have a layer(s) in the first level of the hierarchy locked, it should copy all object/layers, not matter if you use copy/paste, ⌘ (cmd) or ⌥ (option/alt) drag. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software
retrograde Posted February 12, 2016 Author Posted February 12, 2016 Thanks guys. It seems to work when duplicating the layer from the layers palette. I was initially just creating a new artboard in the document then copy dragging everything in the main document window not the layer in the palette... Maybe an improvement would be when copy dragging elements to a new or different artboard in the document window the layer hierarchy copies as well to the new artboard? Also on a side note when you do create a copy of a layer in the layers palette the name is the same. It might be an improvement to add "copy" after the name? Quote http://www.kevincreative.com https://www.behance.net/kevincreative https://dribbble.com/kevincreative https://www.instagram.com/kevincreative/
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