What’s New

Introducing Smart Layout

With Smart Layout, we’re making Symbols more powerful and supercharging your workflow when it comes to using them in your designs. With it, you can set a direction for Symbols to resize when you change their overrides, while keeping the spacing between different layers in that Symbol consistent. Better still, you can set different Smart Layout settings for Nested Symbols and even groups within Symbols. It’s incredibly powerful and we can’t wait to see how it’ll improve your workflow.

Reorder layers in a Smart Distribute selection

If you’ve selected multiple layers with even spacing between them, you can grab and drag the center of one of those layers to change its position within that selection. The surrounding layers will reorder themselves and snap into place to make way for the one you’re moving. The best part is, it even works with Artboards, so you can keep your documents looking neat and tidy.

Better Boolean Operations

We’ve done a lot of work to improve the way we handle Boolean Operations. If you’ve run into any Boolean Ops bugs or odd behaviours in the past, there’s a good chance we’ve fixed it here.

Edit text overrides on the Canvas

We’ve made it easier to work with text overrides by adding the option to edit them directly on the Canvas. Simply double-click on text in any Symbol instance and start typing. Stay on the Canvas, stay in the moment and speed up your workflow.

Smart Distribute Upgrades

You can now use Smart Distribute to control the spacing in grids. You can easily adjust the vertical spacing between rows of layers, as well as the horizontal spacing between each layer in a row. We’ve also introduced a new ‘Tidy’ button to the Inspector. It quickly aligns a selection of multiple layers into a neat grid, making it even easier to create and manage complex layouts.

Save your documents to Sketch Cloud

There’s a new option to save documents to Sketch Cloud by default in Preferences. If you choose this, you’ll still have the option to save local documents via a separate menu item and shortcut. You’ll also be able see and open your Cloud documents from the Welcome Window.

Say hello to Smart Distribute

We’re introducing a whole new range of tools to make working with multiple layers quicker and easier, starting with Smart Distribute. Select a column or row of layers, grab any of the handles that appear between them, then drag to adjust their spacing evenly. For now, Smart Distribute only works in one direction at a time but there’s plenty more to come.

Create new layers from SVG code

Paste SVG code straight into Sketch to create new layers anywhere on your Canvas.

Dark Mode Toggle

You can now toggle between Dark Mode and Light Mode and choose a dark or light Canvas, independent of your system settings.

Snapping Improvements

Snapping has been much improved, including a new look for measurements and customizable guide colors.

Performance

Major performance improvements when working with complex documents containing many prototyping flows.

Fill Popover

All-new fill popover with improved features and collapsible sections.

Override Management

You can now manage which overridable properties appear directly in the Symbol’s master.

Overrides

Overrides in Symbols can now be selected via the Layer List, and in the Canvas when the Symbol instance is selected.

Snapping Improvements

Snapping has been much improved overall when moving or resizing layers.