Duplicator Sketch Plugin

Duplicator is a handy SketchApp plugin that takes currently selected layers or artboards and copies them once or multiple times in a specified direction.

Install with Sketch Runner

With Sketch Runner, just go to the install command and search for duplicator. Runner allows you to manage plugins and do much more to speed up your workflow in Sketch. Download Runner here.

Manual Installation

1. Download Duplicator.sketchplugin.zip archive with the plugin.
2. Reveal plugins folder in finder (‘Sketch App Menu’ -> ‘Plugins’ -> ‘Manage Plugins…’ -> ‘Gear Icon’ -> ‘Show Plugins Folder’).
3. Delete previously installed version of the plugin (duplicator folder or Duplicator.sketchplugin bundle)
4. Un-zip downloaded archive and double-click Duplicator.sketchplugin file to install.

Usage

Duplicating layers

Select any layer and use command-control + any arrow key to duplicate it in a corresponding to the arrow key direction. Duplicated layer gets automatically selected, thus it’s easy to create several duplicates of the same layer by repeating the command. By default plugin uses 10px offset for regular layers. Offset could be adjusted in the Settings dialog:

Duplicating multiple layers at once

It’s possible to select several layers that belong to different groups or artboards and duplicate them at once. It’s especially useful for grids generation:

Duplicating artboards and symbols

All layer types are supported.. this means that we can duplicate artboards and symbols! By default 100px offset is used for spacing between duplicated artboards, but it could be adjusted in the Settings dialog:

Manually adjusting offsets between duplicates

Create a first duplicate of a selected layer(s) using command-control + arrow shortcut and adjust vertical or horizontal spacing between original layer(s) and duplicate, then repeat in the same direction until you have the desired duplicates. This feature works for any types of layers, including artboards and symbols:

Duplicating layers a given number of times with custom offset

In case you want to create a certain number of copies in a specified direction with specific offset between copies, you could use command-control-shift + any arrow key shortcuts to provide the required values and pick specific injection mode:

It’s also possible to adjust offsets between duplicates in context by creating duplicate once using command control + arrow shortcut and adjusting vertical or horizontal spacing, then you could use command-control-shift + the same arrow key to create multiple copies at once. In such case offset will be picked up automatically:

Changing default settings

Default settings could be changed in special dialog by selecting Sketch Menu > Plugins > Duplication > Settings menu item:

Version history

Duplicator 2.0.3: 2/8/2019

• Sketch 53 support
• BUGFIX: Wrong layers ordering for Before Selection injection mode
• BUGFIX: Added missing icon

Duplicator 2.0.2: 3/16/2018

• Sketch 49 support

Duplicator 2.0.1: 9/15/2017

• BUGFIX: Nested duplicated layers can’t be selected on canvas

Duplicator 2.0.0: 8/3/2017

• Artboards and symbols support
• Ability to manually adjust offsets between duplicates
• Customizable injection mode
• Sketch 46 support

Duplicator 1.1.0: 5/24/2016

• New bundle format support
• Sketch 3.8+ support

Duplicator 1.0.0: 7/9/2014

• Initial Release

Feedback

If you discover any issue or have any suggestions for improvement of the plugin, please open an issue or find me on twitter @turbobabr.

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2014-2018 Andrey Shakhmin

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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