This occurs when I have an instance in my clipboard and I attempt to paste-to-replace an instance inside another instance.
It’d be great to be able to use the paste-to-replace keyboard shortcut to swap instances, rather than going through the hassle of selecting the nested instance and swapping it for another through the properties panel.
I don’t like to detach components so swapping instances is something I do all day every day.
However, when swapping instances, the swapped instance is always the default instance of the master, which means I often have to re-apply overrides manually. This is a huge source of repeat manual work.
My suggestion would be to be able to swap instances as you would do copy-paste.
Yes, please!! It would be so much faster to simply paste (or paste and replace) to swap instances. It takes so much effort to move all the way to property panel and then search the component in the the whole library, when it would be just right there.
+1 This is so much more discoverable for new designers in a large corp with complex design systems and several libraries connected to each design file.
Designers are more likely to be comfortable doing a “paste to replace”-style Instance Swap, than to navigate the Instance Swap dropdown correctly. It’s more visual, as well.
This would enable true detachless design process, the current process is just lengthy enough to not be used mainline.
Why so few +1?! This is such a simple thing, but would be great!
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Definitely needed. Otherwise, tell me somebody how to operate with contextual menus components and not fall into a mental illness when once again you need to add an element in the between exsiting ones?
This is not perfect solution but much more comfortable than manual recreation of the each element below the added one.
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