Mandu Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 Hello all. Like I said in the title, I want to move elements/layers that are located in the same place in the artwork but are part of the groups with other elements located in other places in the artwork. Things get complicated here because I simply cannot find a way to move specific layers without moving entire groups. In Illustrator you do this simply by using direct selection tool (node tool in Affinity), select anything you want and move where ever you want regardless of which group those layers belong to. How do I move things in Affinity apps that belong to different groups??? I know that I can double-click and move each element within a group, but there are many elements below that one I also want to move at the same time, but they belong to different groups. How do I move them all together without moving entire groups? (and without ungrouping elements) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Gabe Posted January 29, 2019 Staff Share Posted January 29, 2019 Hi @Mandu, I'm not really sure I understand what the issue is. You can move different objects from different objects with no issues: TinyTake by MangoApps-29-01-2019-09-27-14.mp4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandu Posted January 29, 2019 Author Share Posted January 29, 2019 Hello there, thank you for you reply. Could you do all that without selecting layers in the list? Issue is that I need to do it in the artwork, not like that. Why? Because I have many groups and 100~200 layers and can't click select that way. I wasnt to marquee drag and select multiple layers that are located in different groups. Even If I could click on each item on the layer menu, I wouldn't know which one to click, so I have to seelct it from the artwork window. But anyway, I figured it out partially. I have to click and hold ctrl and then marquee drag select. Unfortunatelly selecting many layers this way is also selecting other layers left and right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Gabe Posted January 29, 2019 Staff Share Posted January 29, 2019 Select the first object, and then with CTRL + SHIFT pressed, select the other ones. It should work just as selecting the layers in the layer studio. Mandu 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted January 29, 2019 Staff Share Posted January 29, 2019 Hi Mandu, To remove (or add) objects you have selected accidentally while pressing ⌃(ctrl) and dragging a marquee press ⇧ (shift) simultaneously. Mandu 1 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandu Posted January 29, 2019 Author Share Posted January 29, 2019 Thank you. It's so simple, and yet so frustrating if you don't know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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