retrograde Posted February 11, 2016 Share 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/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crabtrem Posted February 12, 2016 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted February 12, 2016 Staff Share 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 | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrograde Posted February 12, 2016 Author Share 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/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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