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Alina_Trussova
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September 8, 2023
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Nested component, instance swap and stroke scaling issue

  • September 8, 2023
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Icon stroke width behaves as expected inside the button (it scales with the canvas). However, as soon as it’s turned into a component and the icon is swapped, the stroke resets to a default value of 2px. The frame size behaves as expected.
Icon is resized using scale tool.

Problem appears both ways:
– creating button from scratch (works), make is a component (does not work).
– creating button component with same anatomy from scratch (does not work). Detach the same component (works).

Creating different sizes with variants for each icon is not an option due to the extensive icon library.

Is this a bug, or what could be causing this issue?

Screenshot 2023-09-08 at 11.23.01

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Best answer by tank666

Most likely you need to override the icon stroke weight in each button variant.

26 replies

tank666
tank666
September 8, 2023

https://forum.figma.com/t/issue-keep-the-scaling-of-a-nested-component-when-swapping-it/1009/23

UX/UI designer. Figma expert. Creator and developer of plugins and widgets for Figma and FigJam. Check out my resources in Figma Community: figma.com/@tank
    Alina_Trussova
    Alina_TrussovaAuthor
    New Participant
    September 8, 2023

    Thanks!
    – Icons are constructed properly (flatten, only one vector stroke layer and the same layer names, same properties)
    – Also I did try creating a component responsible for size (3 sizes). It exhibits the same behaviour. When used in a button component stroke resizes back to original 2px.

    Seems like a component adds additional parameters to the setup, but I can not figure out what and do I even have control over it. Currently it’s seems like a bug to me.
    Does anybody have any ideas?

    Screenshot 2023-09-08 at 17.24.00

    tank666
    tank666Solution
    September 8, 2023

    Most likely you need to override the icon stroke weight in each button variant.

    UX/UI designer. Figma expert. Creator and developer of plugins and widgets for Figma and FigJam. Check out my resources in Figma Community: figma.com/@tank
      Alina_Trussova
      Alina_TrussovaAuthor
      New Participant
      September 8, 2023

      I see! That’s what I was missing! Highly appreciate your help.

      Jay_Flaxman
      Jay_Flaxman
      New Member
      November 10, 2023

      Surely this is still a bug though? I have the same issue where I’ve created a component in which I’ve added an instance swap property for a nested component that I’ve scaled up. As soon as I try swapping the instance of the nested component, the stroke thickness reverts back to the original. If the original instance is scaled, why would the scale not apply to the swapped instance?

        Lucas_del_Rio
        Lucas_del_Rio
        November 16, 2023

        This is a bug clearly. Been struggling these paste days with the same issue. Makes no sense honestly.

        Alina_Trussova
        Alina_TrussovaAuthor
        New Participant
        November 27, 2023

        Hi! I have been testing and noticed that I do not experience this problem anymore even without workaround.
        So it looks like the bug is fixed now and maybe latest Figma update will help?

        Mads_Hensel_dk
        Mads_Hensel_dk
        March 15, 2024

        Ran into this problem/bug again today, so I don’t think it’s been fixed yet!

        Amy_Martens
        Amy_Martens
        March 15, 2024

        This definitely still happens and causes a lot of pain trying to use stroke based icon libraries with a design system built in Figma

          Wei_Qing
          March 26, 2024

          Still same issue, If ikon or illustration with stokes in nested level inside a parent component. Stroke will not scale if instance is scaled small or bigger.

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