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Unselectable green shapes on a project - Bug?

  • February 22, 2022
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Andre_Correia

I’m seeing some green shapes on a specific project I’m working on and can’t for the life of me figure out what they are.

  • Tried right clicking and selecting them but they don’t seem to be any underlying element.
  • They don’t seem to show up on the element list.
  • They only seem to appear at a certain zoom level.
  • They only show up when I hide the toolbars with CMD+.

Does anyone happen to know what’s going on here?

Best answer by tank666

You can enable/disable mask outlines through the Main menu > View > Mask outlines.

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Andre_Correia

Another example:

Screenshot 2022-02-22 at 11.56.01


Antoine
  • 144 replies
  • February 22, 2022

Please share your file, it’s hard to help from a screenshot here 🙂


Andre_Correia

Unfortunately I can’t share it. 🙁


tank666
  • 4863 replies
  • February 22, 2022

If these elements are not in your design, try the following:

  • Restart the application/browser;
  • Clear cache;
  • Re-login to account.

Andre_Correia

It seems like it has something to do with masks.

These green elements are masked elements from the artboard that was next to the one where they were showing. The artboard had clipping on but somehow these masked elements were still showing up on the artboard that they would overlap if clipping was off.

Today I opened another project and also noticed a green line around a rectangular mask that I have on all the artboards. Is this some feature to highlight masked objects that I accidentally activated or a bug?

Anyone else experiencing the same?

Thank you!


Andre_Correia

Seems like relogging did the trick on the Mac app, thank you!


tank666
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  • February 24, 2022

You can enable/disable mask outlines through the Main menu > View > Mask outlines.

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Andre_Correia

Oh, I see… I didn’t realize I had it turned on. Pretty useful feature actually, thank you!


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