Henry Griin
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Hi Everyone,
This functionality is available in our latest release build – 27.6.1.
The new functionality allows searching layers by name using the searchbar in the layers panel. The users can also apply filters based on layer properties (locked, hidden etc) or objects properties (effects, text etc.). This will help to quickly find layers/objects for large documents (having multiple layers).
Read more about this - https://helpx.adobe.com/in/illustrator/using/whats-new/2023-5.html#search-and-filter
Thank you for all the feedback.
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We have the option to hide layers or objects that we don't want to smart align or snap to, but sometimes this is too much of a slow down, switching them on and off and on and so on.
It's just a first world problem, but user comfort is never unimportant. The use case is clear for me as well, just like the original poster. I want to see other objects so that I have visual context. But at the same time, I want to snap alignments to only certain objects, not everything visible.
Maybe this can be solved with 'multiple selected objects isolation mode'. This would need to make possible a selection of objects to add to isolation mode that is not limited to a group. Something similar is possible in After Effects with an extension like Mograph Motion. It is possible in AE because there, each layer has a separate switch for 'visible' and 'solo'. Therefore I guess Illustrator would need a similar approach for more isolation control.