Complex Component With 20,000 Layers

[#1]

My team and I have been getting a message when we first open our files that we have a component in our shared library with more than 20,000 layers. This component that's called out has nowhere near that amount of layers, however. It has a little over 100 layers including all of the vector icons and masks.

View of each component stateList of all layers pt.2List of all layers pt.1Alert on file loadThese are the states of the componentThis is the Bottom Nav Tray componentWhen clicking on View Component

[#2]

Hi there,

Sorry to hear you are having trouble with XD. Would you mind trying to sign out of XD and Creative Cloud, restart the machine and then sign back in? 

Let us know if that helps.

Thanks,

Harshika

[#3]

Hi there,

I would like to follow up on the issue. Could you please let us know if you're still experiencing the issue or it has been resolved? Please feel free to update the discussion if you need further assistance from us.

We would be happy to help.

Thanks,

Harshika

[#4]

Hi Harshika,

I've tried the above steps and I am still getting the same error for the same component. I had the owner of the file do the same steps and still, the error persists.

Please advise. Thank you

[#5]

Hey Cory,

Sorry for the delay in response. Would you mind sharing the file with me over a private message so that I can check at my end on my windows machine?

I will try my best to help.

Note: Please add the URL of this post over a PM for reference.

Thanks,

Harshika

[#6]

What I've come to realize is that instead of moving the layers around when you create a new state XD duplicates all the layers for the new state. Hence whey you get 20,000 layers, especially if you have nested components. 

5 States is essentially 5 artboards with the same layers, but represented as one component.

[#7]

Yeah, this is the core of all our current problems. Before the last update (when XD ignored overrides on nested components) I had 200 components of icons each containing 5 states for different colors to use across the project. On top of that I had 200 components of the same icons with the same 5 states for each color, but smaller size. So it's 2000 of icons only. Then I had lots of other components with these icons nested inside. After the latest update Adobe XD just can't convert all those components to a new library and crashes. Now I almost finished recreating our design system in new cloud files without creating all those states and copies only to be able to use slightly different icons nested inside buttons because now I can just make overrides for the same component. I can tell that now Adobe XD works much quicker than before, at least now I don't have time to grind myself some coffee while waiting for files to open.

[#8]

Also, it is the reason Default state overrides of component's instance are not propagated to it's other states. For example I have a component of a button with Default State and Hover, containing and icon and text. When I change the icon and text in the Default state of the instance it doesn't change them in Hover state, so I have to do the same changes again - it's ridiculous, because usually you want to have the same text and icon for both states but in different color for Hover.

[#9]

I hit that dreaded 20k warning myself this week and realized it was all my nesting and took awhile to figure out what was going on.   this message thread was helpful however as i didn't realize the whole overrides in an instance default were, by design, not propogating to the other states of the instance.    I often wondered if i'm trying to do more than other people with nested components. Glad to know i'm not the only one!

[#10]

Hello,

I am getting the same issue too. Did anyone find a suitable solution?

I'm using two shared component libraries (one for icons that are used across multiple products and a second component library specific to the product i'm working on) so nesting components is unavoidable for my workflow, unless anyone has an alternate method? From what I gather from this thread so far that's the reason i'm getting the performance error message. I literally have 10 artboards in my document. 

[#11]

It would be good to get a response to this 20,000 layers problem, as alot of us are having these problems, and its effecting our output capcity.. Lots of waiting around happening.