Improve selection of objects with no fill
select-tool can't grab a group of outline objects without zooming in
in indesign or illustrator this is much easier....
sara nenzi
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17 comments
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Chris
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This is a much needed quality of life issue. Please address! Thank you
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Anonymous
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Currently a pain to drag fine lines, SVGs, and other paths. Selection object should be based on the bounding box, not the specific path. Figma does this.
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Anonymous
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100% this is rly frustrating 100x times a day
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Milo
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Somewhere in the Adobe XD team meeting room
- We got a nice app, let's make a small bonus to make the users' lives miserable so that our tradition is alive.
- What do users do very often in their website and application designs?
- Set icons!
- Right! Let's make it damn difficult. XD XD XD
- Great idea! XD XD XD XD
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Julius
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Let's say I have a logo containing a wordmark. When I want to drag it, I need to grab the actual pieces of the logo instead of e.g. an area within the logo. I would love to select the logo anywhere within the graphic instead of looking for specific areas to touch them. It seems XD is treating SVGs not as if they are "squares" to drag but respects the negative spaces in them and says "selectable=no" for them. Sketch does it differently and I kind of got used to it. Even a SVG you can select somwhere within the element and it actually selects it.
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Yam Lam commented
This problem is too old, so why not solve it?
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Cyrill Studer commented
Yes please! More tolerance when clicking on an object with thin paths and no fill. It's hardly possible to grab these small svg icons..!
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T. Claisse
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Why are there not more people concerned by this unbearable problem?
It is terrible when working with icons and small items. -
James Smith
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yeah this is absolutely one of my least favorite things about this program that i dread encountering.
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Anonymous
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Any kind of SVG that is not a solid is a real nightmare to select and move around the page. Because of its outline vector nature, the "white space" is selectable, so any kind of background behind it is what you end up selecting instead of your desired object :(
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Anonymous
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Any kind of SVG that is not a solid is a real nightmare to select and move around the page. Because of its outline vector nature, the "white space" is selectable, so any kind of background behind it is what you end up selecting instead of your desired object :(
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James Smith
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when selecting one or multiple vectors, moving them will also move the object behind it even if it isnt selected, unless you click on the positive space of the vector, not just the bounding box. this is particularly annoying for vectors with thin strokes beacuse they are harder to select. It would be a lot easier if clicking anywhere in the bounding box moved the selected layers, and left any unselected background layers where they are. this is one of my biggest issues with XD
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Daniel Lebduška
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Hello, when moving object (or copy with Alt key) many time happens that it won’t move. Especially when moving group of icons that have empty area inside and it is zoomed out. If the mouse click on the selected area to the empty area it will create another selection range instead of moving objects. I have to click directly to the area where a drawn line is. It’s really annoying. In old fireworks CS5 it was normal… Generally the moving and “Alt” copying small objects on large canvas is quite tricky and take a lot of design time. You are able to improve it !! :-)
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Thanks for sending in Feature Requests. For now, you can give a Path a Fill color and then set Opacity to 0% to achieve this.
HTH,
Randy -
Anonymous
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Also, if you need to "bring them to front" if you paste them and they fall behind something, it's extremely annoying. You can't see and it just deselects. I prefer Illustrator's behavior, where once something is selected, you can right-click anywhere on the screen, and still the menu that appears relates to the selected item.
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Robert Gutke commented
This is a usability bug: When you have transparent vector graphics, it is very difficult to grab them, because you can only click on their visible parts. When your vectior shape has very thin lines, this is extremely annoying and time consuming. It would be nice if you could select them by clicking on the rectangluar entire area they take up.
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Adrien Tétar
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Currently to select a vector asset one has to click *onto* the vector path. This makes thin stroke icons (for instance) very hard to select.
When trying to select an object that's in a group that becomes quite a headache.
It would be better imo if one could select vector objects by just clicking inside their bouding box.
