Hello there!
I’ve been using Sketch for some 15 years, but I’m fairly certain I’m not the traditional user. I mainly use it to quickly make graphics for syllabuses and small projects, and almost never go through anything even resembling a decent workflow. I mostly use one big canvas and move stuff around as needed, and then export whichever bits I need. That has worked fine for 15 years, but recently, Sketch has been driving me crazy enough to turn to these forums for help.
From what I’ve been able to tell, the sizing options have changed for layout design for apps. I don’t need any of this stuff, all this means is that resizing groups is just broken now.
I found this post which apparently has the answers:
No problem, just put everything inside a graphic. Except that means I lost the infinite canvas which made Sketch great for my use case. Why would I want to limit myself to a specific rectangle?
No problem, just use “graphics” instead of groups. Great, except I have over 1000 documents which use groups and not graphics, documents with often over a hundred groups in them, and when Sketch suggests some of them can be changed into graphics, it give me, e.g. 3 of the 100. Also, graphics grey out anything that’s not in a graphic, which groups don’t, which again means I kind of lost my infinite canvas.
Is there any way to restore the old groups functionality (the “graphics” one) as the default instead of using the “frames” one as the default?
From the blog post I read ( Frames and Graphics: A not-so-short guide · Sketch Blog ), groups aren’t even that useful for frames (“In frames, you’ll likely use groups a lot less”), so why is the default behaviour the frames one anyway?
And in general: is nobody actually using the infinite canvas anymore? Is everything frames and graphics now?