I know this is an idea stolen from Sketch, but I think it is worth stealing as it is good!
Copy an item from one part of the canvas
Move to where you want to insert it
Right click the mouse and one of the right click menu items is Paste here
This allows you to paste in the spot of choice
The current behaviour is once youāve 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.
ā§āV on a selected item will paste to that itemās 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 ā§āV. Feels like the right click idea is just a nice extra bit of usability that wouldnāt be the hardest to implement
When I copy and paste objects, I feel like Figma is constantly trying to paste into my auto layouts, and itās always moving my viewport or pasting into really random places. One feature I use in Sketch often is the āpaste hereā feature, accessed by right clicking. Itās such a simple way to know exactly where Iām pasting an element. I would love to have something like this in Figma.
Our team has been working hard to make pasting more intuitive across, and weāve added three new features, including āPaste hereā. You can learn more on the playground file here!
I think I have found a bug with your new āpast hereā (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 āpaste hereā 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 wonāt paste anything when I try āpaste hereā. Paste still works as expected.
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 havenāt seen any other tool do this but Iām not sure why!