Hi,

+10000 votes for this feature.
Everything on the asset panel should be duplicatable and mergeable.

This is sorely needed. I think it would be super easy to implement too. Just add a new menu item when you right-click on an instance that converts it to a new main component.

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had to create new components from scratch that were very similar to other components I had already created. I did not know about the work-around, so that helps a ton, but this is an easy, much-needed feature.

I thought I was working on 5 Main components. And after making all my edits, realized they were all "Instance" not "Main" because I'd saved the document under a new name. So now none of my component changes rippled through the document! If I ungroup the components, I will lose my hover states.

So YES. We need the capability to change an Instance of a component to either override the main, or be a new component, with all states inherited.

Thanks Vlad, this is a great workaround! Especially for complex components with many states.

For others who'll try Vlad's way: After pasting back and making local you need to also click Edit main component (because the pasted one is an Instance).

A quick workaround for duplicating components with a lot of similarities:

Copy/paste component in another file, then make local to that file and rename.
Then copy/paste back the new renamed component to your file and make it local again.

This seems to me, to be faster than rebuilding the component from scratch.
Cheers

This is very much needed for building any complex design.
Thanks

Please implement!

It's been way too long without this...

I've voted for the "Duplicate Master Component" feature but I like this too because it would be cool to create a master (main) component from an instance of a component.

Think about it. You design a component that you're using a lot and in one instance you notice that the component needs some improvements. You make the necessary improvements to that instance. Now you decide you want all the components to look/function like that instance. If you could have the option to 1."make new main component from this instance" and 2."make this instance the main component" - it would be super helpful.

This would be a great improvement. I find myself wanting to do this all the time. It would save a lot of time.

Make it please. It's too annoying to copy it now.
1. Create a new file
2. Copy Components
3. Rename, re-copy and paste into the original file.
4. Delete and close saved files in the cloud
This process must be completed with only one button.

When someone asks me about that, I say, "Well, it's a little annoying, but try like this! blabla... ", What a hassle!

Please, desperately need.

Also came here expecting to find an answer to this problem, and ended up disappointed because I see that Adobe hasn't implemented the functionality to create a master component from an instance component yet, even though people has been asking for it since two years ago. This would be indeed very useful and I am just another example who really needs it as well. It seems like Adobe doesn't have people working on real life projects who could realize what are the little and simple improvements they could do that would greatly facilitate the designers work, what a shame.

I wish they make this a priority as it will cut a lot of tedious work when setting up main components.

Would be especially useful for creating variations of masters that have different states defined!

it's a really basic and useful feature, possibility to create a new "master" component instead of unlink and recreate all state from scratch

This is needed so badly. It's super annoying and tedious to have to make multiple versions and alterations of an instance component for states and interactions to show clients, and when an option is chosen, we have to go and re-create the one chosen if it's not the master component.

It's insanity that we can't do this.

I just made 6 states. Then realized I need 6 individual components instead so that each "state" can have an independent trigger. If we could duplicate master components, then I would be able to duplicate, rename, and delete the superfluous states.

You are probably adding 2-3 hours of work to my day but not having this simple feature. And this happens to me all the time.

PLEEEEAAASE! The lack of this feature is driving me crazy!

Yes Please!! I spend so much time dealing with visuals independently because of this issue