How to copy artboard with own separate layers | Illustrator

[@luukpiano]

1. Method 2, even easier and faster when using multiple (sub)layers 🤗: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aYGWgn2qrKuqaqc (1m59) 2. 🕐 Timestamps for the current video: 0:27 - Create layers 0:55 - Duplicate artboard 1:31 - Select second artboard 1:50 - Use the selection trick 2:28 - Mind the locks! 3:09 - Don't subscribe (unless you want music)

[@dunkley7776]

lovely! Exactly what I was looking for. Had no idea that dragging those colored squares on the lay panel moved the selected to other layers. A hidden gem!

[@redguitar6062]

Perfect! Just what I needed. I did notice that because I had a clipping mask on one layer which was unlinked I couldn't copy that layer across with the artboard. Linked it back up and everything went smoothly

[@luukpiano]

Happy it was helpful! And that sounds like useful info about clipping masks, thank you for your comment! 👌🏻 Have a good day 😃

[@jeffreybacic4414]

Thank you for helping me regarding how to better organizing the layers. Cheers!

[@luukpiano]

You're welcome Jeffrey! Have a good day!

[@meshtarua]

Exactly what I needed.

[@luukpiano]

Glad to hear this was helpful.

[@Monika-tv8np]

I have been looking for this, thank you. Very simple

[@luukpiano]

You're welcome Monika! Have fun with your project!

[@cathychoi6959]

Thanks for sharing Luuk! It helped just exactly what I needed :-)

[@luukpiano]

Great! You're welcome! :) Good luck with your project!

[@elenacomte5086]

Amazing. Exactly what I needed. Thanks so much.

[@luukpiano]

You're welcome Éléna! Good luck with your project 😃

[@Grubsndoodles]

Thanks for this. Kind of what i need. Im so disorganized in illustrator. 🤣 I recently made a brand design and i have the objects all in same layer but different artboards. Or probably the other way around. It's insane. I will try this 🤣

[@08Surrealist_Dreamer]

What to do if I had a layer mask in that artboard, how to copy that too

[@rathodmukendra8924]

thank you man ! i am so dumb i am using this software from 7-8 years and until now I am moving all those by manually 😅

[@luukpiano]

Nice man, you've got quite some experience there! We can always learn something new I suppose, haha. Happy this helped! ✌

[@ComputerTechnology073124930]

but it will take much time if you have for example 100 artboards and 100 separate layers. like me, i select one object, then i copy, paste it to all artboards. the object pasted to all artboards but the problem is pasted just to one layer ( not pasted in the 100 layers separately ) and to move every object to its own layer, it took much time, and effort, so my question is, there is any possibility or script that can copy all the 99 objects from one layer and paste them separately to the other 99 layers?

[@BuckBowen]

For me, the whole point of duplicating the artboard is to be able to have a separate, clean layers panel for each artboard - like in photoshop. This method from I can tell doesn't do that. The layers may technically be "separate", but the Layers panel is not.

[@7somekindofsomething]

Can you do this across different ai files? (ie bring a new artboard with its layers to another file).

[@SarloosWolfWhisper]

It does not copy any groups you have in the first artboard to the second, but just places every layer separately, which is a mess... do you know of any way of also transferring the groups, so organization is not lost?

[@luukpiano]

Thanks for your question. I researched and tried some options and I did find a way to copy the group structure as well! I will record a short video for it this weekend, but here are the steps in text, starting from your single artboard: 1. open the artboard panel by going to Window > Artboards 2. click the [+] in the bottom, which will create a new artboard with the same dimensions as your current artboard. Close the artboard window. 3. select all (top level) layers you want to copy (use CTRL or SHIFT to select multiple) 4. with all relevant layers selected (indicated in blue highlights), click the little hamburger menu to the top right and click 'Duplicate Selection' 5. now select all the copied contents using the selection indicator feature. Like 1:51, but then in reverse: you now click the empty indicator area (right next to the circle) to activate it, which will select the contents of that layer (activate multiple selection indicators by holding SHIFT while clicking) 6. finally, move your mouse to the first artboard, hit 'V' to open your Selection Tool and drag the (still) selected contents from your first artboard to the new artboard. Voilà! Hope this helps! :)

[@luukpiano]

In video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aYGWgn2qrKuqaqc Please do let me know if this is not what you meant.

[@kathykuhlette08]

Thanks, it helps me a lot.

[@luukpiano]

You're welcome Kathy! 😃

[@samHoneyDesign]

Myself, I just, - Create new art board, - Select/highlight the top layer of the art board to copy in the layers panel - Click on duplicate layer in the layer option - Drag the new, already selected design objects to the art board. New duplicate art board with layers intact.

[@yudhochristin]

Thank you very much! really help me.

[@luukpiano]

Happy to hear that, you're welcome!

[@LuizR]

Thanks for sharing!

[@luukpiano]

You're welcome Luiz!

[@AstroCreations-pm4mh]

thank you so much!

[@karatik.a]

adobe is so behind with this. Layer organization should be automated in these kinda situations. Like it is in Affinity products and Figma.

[@rehanfarooqui2071]

thank you mate

[@luukpiano]

you're welcome Rehan! Good luck with your project!

[@raulvera41]

2:06

[@Historicly]

comment!

[@carbonwarrior]

So complicated, it's annoying. Why can't they add a button/command duplicate artboard with a separate layer/layers? Your other method is just as complicated especially if the artwork exceeds the artboard bounds. Adobe=The Worst UX for a software