Improve mathematical computations in the "width" and "height" fields

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Within the height and width fields:

  • I can not use division/multiplication to adjust the height/width of multiple objects simultaneously.
  • I can not increase or decrease the width or height of multiple objects by a specified amount simultaneously.

Here’s a video in which I illustrate the problem by comparing Sketch to Figma:

Does anyone else have the same frustration? Any tips? Can the people of Figma add this feature?

Thank you!

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Yes, I would love to be able to select multiple objects, get “Mixed” in the width/height fields but then when I enter “+20” into the field (or “Mixed+20” I guess would also work) every object would be increased by 20px…

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This is one area where Sketch still maintains an advantage over Figma. You can perform some nutty operations on layers in Sketch just with a few operations in the x, y, width or height field. You could resize multiple layers of different sizes by the same amount, sure; but what you if you want to scale a layer to 50% of its current height, minus 100px, while still keeping its bottom edge at the same position? Sketch can do all that with a single input.

(After playing around a bit I should acknowledge that you can combine operations in Figma: 50%-100 will do what you think it should, even with multiple frames selected. Strangely the simpler -100 won’t. You have to specify 100%-100 and that will work on multiple. You can also use 100% as a base to shift multiple frames by same amount in the x or y.)

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