Constraints not saved to Asset

[bendito33]

Steps to reproduce:

1. Create a new document
2. Add a shape
3. Set some constraints
4. Drag to the Assets panel to create new asset
5. Drag that asset out of the Assets panel onto your doc
6. Constraints on that dragged asset are gone

[nravenlock]

 

Steps to reproduce:

1. Create a new document
2. Add a shape
3. Set some constraints
4. Drag to the Assets panel to create new asset
5. Drag that asset out of the Assets panel onto your doc
6. Constraints on that dragged asset are gone

 

 

@bendito33

 

To activate the constraints applied to an asset, you need to drag the asset onto the artboard or page with the cmd key (on a Mac) or ctrl key (on Windows) pressed down.

 

Thanks.

[bendito33]

Thanks @nravenlock, but why would that be the default behavior and how would anyone know to do that? Wouldn't it make more sense if the default behavior was to have asset properties match exactly the way they were when they were created?

[MattP]

It was actually quite confusing when the default behaviour was to apply the top-level constraints - you'd get objects which didn't seem to be dragging out to anywhere that made sense, especially for the default assets that shipped with the product as the user has no idea ahead of time which constraints are applied to which assets, so the results seemed unpredictable.

[bendito33]

Yeah that's a great point @MattP. I can see how that would be confusing. Any chance there could be a hint at the bottom of the assets panel to tell users how to get the constraints to be included with the asset? I just never would have guessed that you could hold cmd to get them to work.