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Align to key object

One of the most convenient alignment features in illustrator is the 'align to key object', which Sketch doesn't support, making it difficult to align objects quickly. Please add that feature for XD.

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  • Benjamin Egelston commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    How is this not a feature in a PROTOTYPING APPLICATION? Seriously, the inconsistencies that Adobe products have from one product to another are astounding.

    Please Adobe, copy & paste the features from Illustrator; yes that other product that YOU MAKE, that has a handful of great features and give us those same tools in XD.

    Sincerly, someone who is ready to move to Figma.

  • Justice Work Chan commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Yes. I know the plugin called Singari can achieve this. BUT this is the basic function in illustrator and indesign. ALSO, when you want to align objects and use other plugin at the same time. NOW, you NEED TO OPEN THE Singari and then align, AND THEN YOU NEED TO CLOSE THE Singari and OPEN ANOTHER PLUGIN PANEL. THIS PROCRESS KEEPS REPEATING AND REPEATING. SO ANNOYING.

  • Gino Rodrigues commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Aligning to first selected is a simple solution, which used to help me a lot on Axure, and could be really useful for XD.

    The first selected object could act as the key object for alignment, avoiding the extra step of pointing it explicitly.

    I attached 2 small videos to compare Axure and XD on this feature.

  • Rafael Valentim commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    It would be great if Xd had the same align options as Illustrator where we can align to key objects, distribution spacing etc., as digvijay sad.

    It is basic!!

  • digvijay p r commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    It would be great if Xd had the same align options as Illustrator where we can align to key objects, distribution spacing etc.

  • Rick Miller commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I think it would be helpful to allow for arrangement and spacing of elements to be defined by a specific value or related to a specific element; similar to the feature in Illustrator.

  • msimpson801 commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    There is a plugin in for this which does this, but when I compare the speed of doing this in illustrator using keyboard shortcuts and using a plugin there's quite a difference.

  • Nora Brown commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    OMG why has no interactive design/prototype tool implemented this? Such a great feature of Illustrator.

  • Thorsteinn commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Yes please. This is one of my most used features in Illustrator and I'm kind of surprised that it's not a part of Xd. You don't always align everything at the same time. I usually align everything as I go, so wanting to add object #26 to a group of objects that are already aligned, I obviously don't want that 26th object to move all the other already aligned objects.

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