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Jordan Rancie
Jordan Rancie
New Member
February 20, 2025
Question

Zooming in to the selected layer or component.

  • February 20, 2025
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I love Figma, I’ve finally been able to get rid of Illustator.

However, Illustrator had a very useful function when working with a large artboard or a large number of artboards. I could zoom out to view the project, select any object(s) I was interested in, and then zoom+ in to or zoom-to-fit (focus) the selected objects.

Currently, the zoom in Figma is always focused on the centre of the screen, meaning I need to reposition the viewing window as/before I zoom in to work.

 

 

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    Will-Price-Studio
    Will-Price-Studio
    New Participant
    April 17, 2025

    I’d like to bump this for the same reason.

    Figma should focus/centre the canvas widow on the selected object on zoom. Why it doesn’t is a mystery to me. Especially when the main benefit of this tool is using it to build large design systems.

    Elyriades
    Elyriades
    Active Member
    April 18, 2025

    Figma has already implemented this option, via the key combination shift +2

    Will-Price-Studio
    Will-Price-Studio
    New Participant
    April 21, 2025

    Hey Elyriades, Shift+2 zoom makes any selected object fill the entire viewport. Not quite the same as the expected zoom feature on Illustrator that does it incrementally.

    Better than nothing, but it’ still isn’t great.

    Sahl Tariq
    Sahl Tariq
    New Member
    May 5, 2026

    Start with Shift + 2 to jump straight to your selection
    Then use Space + drag to slightly adjust the position if needed
    After that, zoom in or out using your trackpad pinch or mouse wheel, while keeping the element roughly centered yourself

    It’s not as smooth as Illustrator’s zoom behavior, but after a while it kind of becomes automatic when you’re working in big files.

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