Selection & Manipulation

Select objects to move, resize, rotate, duplicate, and organize them on the canvas.

Selecting

• Click a node to select it (deselects everything else). As in Figma, a click inside a top-level frame selects that frame's direct child, such as a nested frame or a group, rather than the deepest layer; click a top-level frame by its title, anywhere when it is empty, or by its gaps and padding when it has auto layout
• Hover an auto layout frame to see its direct children outlined with dotted lines; while a single layer is selected, the border of its auto layout parent is dotted
• Double-click to go one level deeper, or click again inside a selected frame, component, or instance; once a layer is selected, clicks reach its siblings and cousins directly
• ⌘ + click (Ctrl + click on Windows and Linux) selects the deepest layer under the cursor; holding ⌘ highlights that layer before you click
• Shift + click to add or remove a node from the current selection. A layer and its own parent or child are never selected together, so Shift-clicking one replaces the other
• Double-click a frame's or component's name above it on the canvas to rename it in place
• Marquee drag — drag on empty canvas to draw a selection rectangle; intersecting nodes are selected on release. Started inside a top-level frame without auto layout or a section, it selects that container's layers; from the page, a frame or section that holds layers is selected only when fully enclosed
• ⌘A — select all nodes on the current page
• Click empty canvas — deselect all

Moving

• Drag a selected node to move it (all selected nodes move together)
• Arrow keys — nudge selected nodes by 1 px
• Shift + arrow keys — nudge by 10 px

Resizing

Selected nodes show 8 resize handles (4 corners + 4 edge midpoints). Drag any handle to resize.

• Shift + drag a corner handle to constrain proportions

Moving into and out of frames

A dragged node lands in the frame under the cursor when you release it, however little of it is inside, and leaves its frame as soon as the cursor does. Groups and locked frames never take dropped nodes, and a component set takes back only its own variants; a node inside a group stays in it unless you drop it on a different frame, and the group resizes to fit what it holds. A group whose last node leaves is removed. Pressing inside a selected frame, group, or component set drags it rather than the node under the cursor.

• Shift + drag — lock the move to one axis
• Hold Space while dragging — keep the nodes in their current parents
• ⌃ + drag (Ctrl + drag on Windows and Linux) — turn off snapping; dropped into an auto-layout frame, the node is positioned absolutely

Locked nodes in a selection stay where they are when the rest of it moves.

Rotating

Hover just outside a corner handle to see the rotation cursor. Drag to rotate.

• Shift + drag snaps rotation to 15° increments

Duplicating

• Alt + drag (⌥ + drag on Mac) — duplicate the selected node and move the copy
• ⌘D — duplicate in place; a lone top-level frame's copy, on the page or in a section, goes into the first free space to its right

Duplicates keep their names. Duplicating a main component this way creates an instance of it.

Pasting

⌘V keeps the copied position. Pasted into a selected frame, nodes keep their offset from the frame they were copied from, and are centered along any axis where they don't fit; nodes that would land out of view are centered in it. Use Paste here in the context menu to paste at the cursor.

Deleting

Press Backspace or Delete to remove all selected nodes.

Z-Order

Change the stacking order of nodes within their parent:

• ] — bring to front (top of sibling list)
• [ — send to back (bottom of sibling list)

Visibility & Lock

• ⇧⌘H — toggle visibility. Hidden nodes don't render but stay in the layers panel.
• ⇧⌘L — toggle lock. Locked nodes can't be selected or moved on canvas.

Move to Page

Move selected nodes to a different page via the context menu. The nodes are reparented under the target page's canvas.

Editing several layers

With several layers selected, the properties panel shows what they have in common and reads Mixed where they differ; an edit changes all of them in one undo step.

• Layout shows their sizes, text resizing when text is selected, flow when every layer is a frame, and clip content for the frames among them. When the layers form one row or column, Spacing shows the gap between them; typing a value spaces them evenly from the first layer.
• Typography appears whenever text is selected and changes only the text.
• Stroke shows the stroke of the layers that have one; editing it strokes every selected layer.
• Selection colors lists every fill and stroke colour in the selection, including inside frames and groups, most used first. Changing one recolours it everywhere it is used.

Sections

A section takes in the sibling nodes it fully covers when you draw it, move it, or resize it over them.

Keyboard Shortcuts

Action	Mac	Windows / Linux
Select all	⌘A	Ctrl + A
Duplicate	⌘D	Ctrl + D
Duplicate + move	⌥ + drag	Alt + drag
Move along one axis	⇧ + drag	Shift + drag
Keep current parent	Space while dragging	Space while dragging
Move without snapping	⌃ + drag	Ctrl + drag
Delete	⌫ / Delete	Backspace / Delete
Nudge 1 px	Arrow keys	Arrow keys
Nudge 10 px	⇧ + Arrow keys	Shift + Arrow keys
Bring to front	]	]
Send to back	[	[
Toggle visibility	⇧⌘H	Shift + Ctrl + H
Toggle lock	⇧⌘L	Shift + Ctrl + L

Tips

• Use the Layers & Pages panel to see and reorder nodes when they overlap.
• See Context Menu for additional actions like grouping and component creation.