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Jesse_Wallace
Jesse_Wallace
New Participant
April 21, 2025
Question

Select parent group or frame for annotations

Currently, annotations only allow you to select the lowest level layers it can find. Many, many times I just want to document something on a whole group or frame, and it doesn’t look like this is possible, which seems like a huge miss.

    3 replies

    Raphael_M
    Raphael_M
    Power Member
    April 22, 2025

    Select annotation tool (make sure it’s currently active)

    Right click on the main frame → Add annotation

      Jesse_Wallace
      Jesse_WallaceAuthor
      New Participant
      April 22, 2025

      Yeah, I saw that but thats not a feasible way to comb through 100s of nested frames and groups. 

      It’s absolutely baffling that this doesn’t work like the regular select tool where it automatically selects the top frame/group and you hold command to drill in. WHY wasn’t it made similarly?!?

        Grayson_Price
        Grayson_Price
        New Member
        December 3, 2025

        Select annotation tool (make sure it’s currently active)

        Right click on the main frame → Add annotation

        Agreed, this is very tedious and reduces the value of the feature

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