Free transform tool groups selected layers to one layer
When selecting several Layers and using the Free Transform Tool, Illustrator moves all these layers to 1 single layer.
I guess this is a bug or am I doing something wrong?
Koen Rolle
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A related request:
Puppet Warp should respect existing layer structures
http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/49092545 -
Margaret Trauth
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1. Make a couple of layers.
2. Draw some shapes in these layers.
3. Select all of these shapes.
4. Enable Perspective or Free Distort mode in the Free Transform tool, and drag a corner handle.
5. Wonder why the heck Illustrator just completely ruined your layer structure.I just found this out ten minutes ago and I hate it. I hate how Puppet Warp shoves everything into a single group too but I think I hate this even more because doing a simple scale/rotation with the Free Transform tool respects my layer structure.
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Thank you for looking at it.
Hopefully this will be fixed in a future release. Fingers crossed. :) -
The GIF
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I see. Now I can confirm it. Whenever you distort a selection with any mode of the Free Distort tool (except for just scale), objects get flattened in the current layer. Here is a simpler demonstration in the GIF attached.
I’ve checked this behavior in older versions: happens in CC2022, does not happen in CS5. So it got broken somewhere in the middle.
Thank you for bringing this up!
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Hi Egor,
Yes, it quite strange. I'm prepping some artwork for Character Animator and this keeps happening with the Perspective Distort & Free Distort function.
I'm working on a MacBook Pro M2 Max with macOS Ventura 13.2.1 & Illustrator 27.4.
Colleagues of mine with different speced MacBook Pros (Intel & M1) run into the same issue.Enclosed you will find the requested files.
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This is something weird!
Can you please create a simple test file, record the problem on video, and share both the file and the video here?
Also provide the specs.
