jc4d Posted January 15, 2019 Share Posted January 15, 2019 Hi all, When working with crazy amount of layers (PDF imported in this case) it is much faster to select the object in the canvas and not guessing which one is in the Layer list, but the problem comes when I select the object and I want to see where is that layer in the Layers panel, is there any shortcut or any other way to do this? I hope it makes sense. Cheers, Juan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Dan C Posted January 15, 2019 Staff Share Posted January 15, 2019 Hi jc4d You can either right click your object and select Find in Layers Panel or alternatively you can use CTRL/CMD + K with your object selected! jc4d 1 Quote Please note - I am currently out of the office for a short while whilst recovering from surgery (nothing serious!), therefore will not be available on the Forums during this time. Should you require a response from the team in a thread I have previously replied in - please Create a New Thread and our team will be sure to reply as soon as possible. Many thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jc4d Posted January 15, 2019 Author Share Posted January 15, 2019 That's excellent, thank you Dan C. Cheers, Juan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimmyJack Posted January 15, 2019 Share Posted January 15, 2019 6 hours ago, jc4d said: That's excellent, thank you Dan C. Cheers, Juan You can also turn on Auto Scroll so it happens automatically() without any extra clicks. Look for the hamburger icon in the layers panel (or you can do it in Preferences > User Interface) skmwrp 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaffa Posted January 15, 2019 Share Posted January 15, 2019 11 hours ago, jc4d said: Hi all, When working with crazy amount of layers (PDF imported in this case) it is much faster to select the object in the canvas and not guessing which one is in the Layer list, but the problem comes when I select the object and I want to see where is that layer in the Layers panel, is there any shortcut or any other way to do this? I hope it makes sense. Cheers, Juan Sorry to hijack your post and thread, Juan, however it seems that your question has been answered. I am intrigued by the comment above "select the object in the canvas", how do you use the canvas in this way? Perhaps you mean that the background layer or a merge visible layer is the canvas? Otherwise how do you do this? Cheers, Jim Quote Jafa - Just Another Fantastic Aucklander (Jim) Windows 11 Affinity Photo 2.4 Lightroom 6 Nik Collection and Topaz Denoise AI Intel Core i7 9700K @ 3.60GHz 32 °C Coffee Lake 14nm Technology Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jc4d Posted January 16, 2019 Author Share Posted January 16, 2019 14 hours ago, JimmyJack said: You can also turn on Auto Scroll so it happens automatically() without any extra clicks. Look for the hamburger icon in the layers panel (or you can do it in Preferences > User Interface) Thanks for the extra tip JimmyJack, although I didn't know about it I just checked and has been on all the time, so I think is not working properly... could it be that is limited to layers that don't belong to a group? Cheers, Juan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jc4d Posted January 16, 2019 Author Share Posted January 16, 2019 10 hours ago, Jaffa said: Sorry to hijack your post and thread, Juan, however it seems that your question has been answered. I am intrigued by the comment above "select the object in the canvas", how do you use the canvas in this way? Perhaps you mean that the background layer or a merge visible layer is the canvas? Otherwise how do you do this? Cheers, Jim No problem Jim , in my work I usually paint facades and if I want to select one specific window (for example) to move I don't use the layer panel list because those documents are PDF imported into AP so I have no idea where that window layer is in the hierarchy. Therefore, I just click the window (or object that I need to select) in the drawing (what I call the canvas) which is much more faster than searching among 150 layers without names. I hope this answer your question. Cheers, juan Jaffa 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samplaire Posted May 24, 2020 Share Posted May 24, 2020 On 1/16/2019 at 7:59 AM, jc4d said: Thanks for the extra tip JimmyJack, although I didn't know about it I just checked and has been on all the time, so I think is not working properly... could it be that is limited to layers that don't belong to a group? Cheers, Juan I have the same problem of the feature being on with no action... Have you solved it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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