I know this is an idea stolen from Sketch, but I think it is worth stealing as it is good! 😁
The current behaviour is once you’ve copied something, if you paste it pastes on top of the original item, which is useful if you need it, but not useful if you have already moved around the canvas.
⇧⌘V on a selected item will paste to that item’s x and y value.
For additional flexibility, try my plugin copy paste position size
I hope this helps, I came from Sketch as well 🙂
Thank you - yeah i knew about the ⇧⌘V. Feels like the right click idea is just a nice extra bit of usability that wouldn’t be the hardest to implement
I’d love this (my ⇧⌘V shortcut is occupied by a different application :))
When I copy and paste objects, I feel like Figma is constantly trying to paste into my auto layouts, and it’s always moving my viewport or pasting into really random places. One feature I use in Sketch often is the “paste here” feature, accessed by right clicking. It’s such a simple way to know exactly where I’m pasting an element. I would love to have something like this in Figma.
Does anyone have a workaround for this?
Hey All,
Our team has been working hard to make pasting more intuitive across, and we’ve added three new features, including “Paste here”. You can learn more on the playground file here!
I think I have found a bug with your new “past here” (which I love).
I have copied something from one file that I have open in Figma Desktop for Mac and toggle to another file that is also open. Paste, works as always. But if I try “paste here” I get a very strange behavior. First, it was pasting something that I had loaded in the copy buffer and pasted long ago. So I reloaded Figma for desktop. Now it won’t paste anything when I try “paste here”. Paste still works as expected.
Hey @Sheldon,
Thanks for flagging this! You can submit a bug report to our support team directly via the form here:
https://help.figma.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form_id=360001744374
Used this so many times in Sketch. Very happy this is now in Figma. Pasting could be quite annoying before.
It would be so helpful and intuitive if an item could paste at the spot the cursor is. Right now, it instead pastes at an unspecific spot in the viewport and you then have to drag it to the spot you wanted it.
I haven’t seen any other tool do this but I’m not sure why!
Another user brought up this as an issue:
Here is a video of the issue (just got promoted a trust level so I couldn’t upload in the original post)
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