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September 16, 2021
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Artboards to layers

  • September 16, 2021
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Hello, 

I've been using illustrator to create animations, generally when I'm designning ill set up my artboards as "storyboards" where i can see as a chronogram the whole design for the animation. This generally leads me to have something like 50 artboards and about 5-7 layers.

 

I like to have my layers as neat as possible so next thing I do is create an equal number of layers as I have artboards and dump the design of each artboard in its respective layer.

I wanted to know if there existed some sort of script that would take each artboard and create a new layer and dump all the assets of said artboard into that layer.

 

Using the previous example it would create 50 new layers and send all the items that are inside that artboard and sort through the layers and "group them" so they can be placed in a single layer.

Sorry if my explenation seems complicated but there you have it, my suggestion for an action/script that can do something along the lines of what I have described. 

Correct answer Kurt Gold

You may try this one, provided by Alexander Ladygin.

 

https://github.com/alexander-ladygin/illustrator-scripts#artboarditemsmovetonewlayer

 

2 replies

femkeblanco
Legend
September 16, 2021

Are we talking about (1) simply putting items into layers or (2) literally moving items from their position relative to their original artboard to a new position relative to a new artboard? A screenshot of a before and after would greatly help.  

Participant
September 20, 2021

This is a simplified version of what I'm looking for,

On the top image all items are on a single layer but spread out into 3 artboards
After running the script I wish that there would be new layers created for each artboard, and any picture/object in the artboard inside the respective layer.

Kurt Gold
Community Expert
Kurt GoldCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
September 16, 2021

You may try this one, provided by Alexander Ladygin.

 

https://github.com/alexander-ladygin/illustrator-scripts#artboarditemsmovetonewlayer