Aliasing

Make instances of Layers.

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This is an experimental feature. To enable, check Enable Experimental Features in Preferences. Experimental features are only available as part of a Professional licence.

Aliasing allows for making a copies of Layers and determining whether attributes are common to each other or not. This is useful where when creating Layers that share many attributes but need one or two (or more) to have different settings.

This could be anything. Radius, Color, Falloffs, Number of Sides, Text, Alignment, etc.

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Example workflow:

1. Create an Polygon.
2. In the Project Window, right click on the Polygon and select Create Alias.
3. Move one of the Shapes in the Viewport.
4. Load the Attribute Editor UIs for both **Polygon Shape **and Polygon Shape (Alias).
5. Right click on Sides for **Polygon Shape (Alias) and select Switch Alias State. **The attribute should turn green.
6. Adjust the Sides value.
7. Adjust the Radius value(s).

While any changes made to the Radius will effect both Polygons, the change to Sides only affected Polygon Shape (Alias).

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If an attribute is green it is not aliased. This means any changes will not be mirrored on other aliased layers.