Fresh Symbol instance with unlinked attributes

[My1]

I just found something both intresting and seriously annoying.

 

when I have a symbol and throw an instance, the layer shows a tooltop with unlinked attributes: constraints, transform.

 

the symbol simply said just has 2 layers: a text layer, and another text layer with exactly the same text, font etc but in a different color and a Gauss Blur.

 

anyone have an Idea why this thing has unlinked attributes?

 

sync button is active obviously.

[MEB]

Hi My1,

It means that the Symbols layer (not its contents - those can have whatever transforms and constraints you want applied) have constraints and transforms disabled by default. This allows you to scale/transform each symbol instance individually otherwise you couldn't have two instances of a Symbol (a logo for example) in different sizes (one on a poster at a large size and another on a flyer with a smaller size) because both would always have the same size if the transforms were not disabled for each instance. Same logic for constraints. If you want to transform/contrain all instances of a Symbol apply those transforms/constraints to the objects contained inside the Symbol layer, not to the Symbol layer itself.

[My1]

oh I see I kinda thought it was related the symbol becoming desynced without me turning sync off. which happened before but is seemingly something I cant replicate anymore (maybe th update to 1.5.2 or 1.5.3 fixed it