copy artboard and layer organisation at once

[Max Mugen]

i’ll try to be the clearest as possible. I’m wondering if i can improve this workflow.

I tend to use “copy artboard” quite a lot as it is nice to duplicate an artwork with the exact same placement on a new artboard.

BUT, the layer organisation stays the same and I have to recreate it manually and drag the content to the new layers

Example :

(all layers have both artboard contents on corresponding layers)
> Prez 05
>> Outline
>> Shape
>> BG

(drag to >>)
> Prez 06
>> Outline
>> Shape
>> BG

Or I can duplicate the layers first and then run some macros to clean it.
One macro to clean the “copy” appendix,
another macro to create an artboard,
then select the background of the copied artwork and run macro “make artboard size fit this selection”
(most of the time my background shape represents the artboard size, but not always)

Is there a proper way to script that ?
i’m open to scripts and actions, but I can't imagine the step-by-step process.

Ideally, i’d like to imput “copy artboard” and that it also duplicate the layer organisation (layer 05 copy etc ..)
Then i could run another macro to remove the “copy” names

any thoughts ?

Thxxxxx !

[Kurt Gold]

Partially that can be done with an action, but you may also take a look at Alexander Ladygin's approach. He has a nice script that may be at least a starting point in that case.

Download: ArtboardItemsMoveToNewLayer

[Kurt Gold]

If you want to take the action route, you can download an action set here:

Duplicate Artboard and Layer

The action set contains 4 actions that duplicate the current artboard either to the right, left, top or bottom and move all (unlocked and unhidden) objects to a new layer.

Instruction:

- Download and unzip the file
- Import the action set in the Actions palette
- Select the desired artboard
- Run one of the actions

Note that "Align to Artboard" has to be turned on in the Align palette before running the actions.