Please add a shortcut for 'Enter Isolation Mode' for layers.
Please add a shortcut for 'Enter Isolation Mode' for layers. This is a very useful command, and accessing it by clicking a tiny icon is difficult.
e.k. kuzey
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Yep, ToolShed does it a bit different compared to the way Ai does it with from the Layers panel’s command.
It adds three commands into its own Object > Isolate menu folder: Begin Isolation, Isolate Parent Object (effectively one isolation level up, not available in the vanilla Ai as a hotkey, but only as a small button — http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/32403778), End Isolation (the usual one).
And Begin Isolation is the most different: it allows you to isolate live text, by wrapping it into a temp group, something Ai doesn’t do (http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/44124621), and allows to 'isolate nothing' (http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/35809273). This command won’t isolate the objects in the current layers, but would rather mimic a 'create and object, isolate it, delete it'.
So yep. -
Thanks for detailed answer Egor.
Okay, the Toolshed plugin is not related to layer isolation.
If someone is using a lot of layers, they would surely want to use layer isolation. -
Isolating a layer is a thing that is rarely used by many, because it works only via the Layers panel.
Here are two related requests (and a nice plugin solution you might like):
1. You can't enter isolation mode when nothing is selected — http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/35809273
2. Isolate selection doesn't get recorded in Actions — http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/36200575
