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Stefan_Pilipovic
Stefan_Pilipovic
February 11, 2021

Disable auto-nesting/auto-reparenting while moving objects

  • February 11, 2021
  • 68 replies
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  1. Describe the problem your experiencing and how your idea helps solve this

The issue with this feature has been covered many times in Spectrum discussions:

Spectrum – 3 Jan 18

There is a way to avoid this by holding SPACE as soon as you click & don’t start dragging the object. But why force us to do acrobatics with our fingers by holding down an additional button, just to move the object? Why not provide an option to disable that functionality completely?

Nagaraj Chandran had a very logical idea in his comment:
“I don’t want to hold the spacebar key to disable auto-nesting. Maybe, it should be the other way around. Hold spacebar or any other key to auto-nest.”

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More than enough in discussions on Spectrum ☝️

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Does anybody find this feature useful? If yes, please enlighten me on how to make use of it because it’s driving me insane and kills my productivity big time.

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    Victor_Diaz
    Victor_Diaz
    August 9, 2022

    Here another person that gets crazy with this…

    Anton_A
    Anton_A
    August 23, 2022

    +1 fix this please

    Dylan_Faust
    Dylan_Faust
    New Member
    September 25, 2022

    This is really annoying, 100% agree! A setting to disable this behavior entirely, or invert the default (so you have to hold space to enable auto-nesting), would be amazing.

    jia.liu
    jia.liu
    October 4, 2022

    For the love of all that’s holy, please fix this. I try to annotate my designs using the pen tool and it constantly tries to insert the point / lines into the frame and there’s no “spacebar” escape behavior available for the pen tool. So I have tiptoe around the frame with my pen and sneak into it, Assassin’s Creed-style, so that I won’t blowing up my design. I will name my first-born child after you if you fix this, thanks.

      Naveen_RaviKumar
      Naveen_RaviKumar
      October 20, 2022

      This is unacceptable! I’ve been an advocate of this tool and I am saddened by the absence of any traction on this key issue 😦

      Joseph_Ferris
      Joseph_Ferris
      November 10, 2022

      YES. PLEASE. This behavior works against me every single time.

      mr.D
      mr.D
      December 12, 2022

      Adding my vote here.
      Figma should have an option to disable this feature. It creates more frustrations than anything else.

      peedikuubik
      peedikuubik
      December 19, 2022

      I love Figma but this is the single most annoying thing about it.

        James_Walsh
        James_Walsh
        New Participant
        January 6, 2023

        Currently switching from XD to figma and I found this immediately frustrating and such a weird behaviour. Especially with many nested frames. Not looking forward to holding the spacebar all day long.

        Provide a toggle please.

          Simon_Bevan
          Simon_Bevan
          July 14, 2023

          Please fix this. I just can’t unlearn how every other design tool works. And struggle daily

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