AD: Trying to replace symbol on iPAD

[Paul Chiswick]

I'm following this on iPAD.

When he reaches 11:13 in, the video producer copies a new symbol over the existing (in video, bunny replaces flower). I asked him how, to make sure my understanding was correct. His answer: Just hide the flower group and paste the bunny inside the symbol. It acts like a group. You can add more content to it, edit and delete elements. All I had to do was place the bunny inside, scale it and position it to match the flower - and the pattern is altered."

However, I cannot do this on iPAD as all I get is a new layer. I don't have Beta on MacPro, so cannot compare.

Not sure if bug or not.

 

Edited March 27, 2023 by Paul Chiswick
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[Chris B]

Hey Paul Chiswick,

I'm not sure which bit you are referencing as the video is 11m14s long yet you state at 11m13s the video producer performs an action. Do you have the document to share up to the point you get stuck? We might be able to spot where something went wrong.

Update. I've just skipped through and it looks like you're referring to the 8 minute mark?

[Paul Chiswick]

16 hours ago, Chris B said:

Hey Paul Chiswick,

I'm not sure which bit you are referencing as the video is 11m14s long yet you state at 11m13s the video producer performs an action. Do you have the document to share up to the point you get stuck? We might be able to spot where something went wrong.

Update. I've just skipped through and it looks like you're referring to the 8 minute mark?

Yes, where the bunny replaces the flower, Here's another video to demonstrate what I mean.

And here's my file. Try replacing stars with another symbol . . .

 

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[Chris B]

I'm not really sure where you are going wrong. All I had to do with your file was hide the stars with one of the symbol groups you made by dragging the new symbol group to the ellipse. Make sure you drag to the layer name so the entire layer goes blue and that you aren't dragging it to the thumbnail.

[Paul Chiswick]

1 hour ago, Chris B said:

I'm not really sure where you are going wrong. All I had to do with your file was hide the stars with one of the symbol groups you made by dragging the new symbol group to the ellipse. Make sure you drag to the layer name so the entire layer goes blue and that you aren't dragging it to the thumbnail.

I didn't want to exchange one group for another . . . I wanted to use 1 instance of a symbol to create a substitute group . . . as per the video

[Paul Chiswick]

Think I've worked this out . . . the sync symbol has to be switched on!

[Chris B]

That's correct! Glad you sorted it Paul - cheers.