: How to deal with ungrouped layers in Affinity Designer? I'm opening a freepik.com vector file in Affinity Designer and the layers show ungrouped. There a millions of layers for a single drawing.

@Debbie163

Affinity Designer can work with groups. Even on imported *.AI and *.EPS files.

So I guess in your case the uploader of the image is to blame. When there are no groups in the file, Affinity Designer will not give you groups.

If you import - for example - this freepik.com image (take the EPS!) into Affinity Designer: www.freepik.com/free-vector/set-of-hand-drawn-christmas-and-new-year-cards_989017.htm
You can clearly see that there are many hierarchical groups!

To answer your question: In the case where the uploader did not preseve structuring groups in the image, unfortunately you have to do the job. But its simple. Just drag over some elements, press Cmd+G (Ctrl+G on Windows) - repeat until you are happy.

Hope, this helps.

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