Adobe XD grouping objects and moving things into the background

Report · Nov 20, 2022

Hey everyone, I just started using Adobe XD and played around with it for a bit and found that it isn't as intuitive as I would have imagined it to be. A problem I encountered was that a circle didn't move into the background of a rectangle, while a rectangle and text objects could move into the background of it. For some reason it worked, when I declared the circle as a component. Can somebody please explain to me why that is and if there is a better way?

Moreover I want to address that I am missing the option to click and move around within the "work desk" environment. I tried to do so by pressing CTRL and Left Click, but it didn't work. Is there an option for that too?

I also found that when I group two objects together, they are not fixed into a position and become smaller or bigger as a whole, but rather the parts move into each other. Can somebody explain the use case for that and why it isn't the default to simply become one true object when declared as a group?

Thank you everyone

Report · Nov 25, 2022

Hi @premiumheadshot, I'd like to try to help you by doing some tests etc but I couldn't understand what you mean by "moving objects to background of a rectangle", do you mean masking objects with another object, can't be sure as re-arranging layers is so easy by using layers panel or right click > send to back etc commands. If you make the problem more clear by sharing some sample file etc or explaining it, I'd like to try to simulate the problem and be helpful as I said 🙂 Happy designing

Report · Nov 30, 2022

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