Automatically Set/Guess Constraints

[songcarver]

Wouldn't it be great, if, with one click, you could auto-populate the constraint settings? Of course some manual tweaks would be needed, but this might save a lot of time.

Looking at Constraints Demo.sketch, and thinking about typical 'Mobile design' use case, some ideas:

• IF object center is closer to centre of axis then edge, then set alignment to center on this axis/' with pinning to maintain current position (negative values)
• IF object center is closer to an edge than canvas center, then set pinning to edge with appropriate values to maintain current position
• IF object spans > 90% of either artboard dimension then pin to 2 or 4 edges with current padding, non-fixed size along that/those dimensions
• Text siblings can probably have a 100% + absolute pixel padding set, per the 'Flowing text test' in Constraint Demos.sketch

[matt-curtis]

These are very interesting ideas. Reminds me a little of Xcode's auto-constraint features, where it'll automatically create constraints to nearest sibling.

Thanks for the suggestions - we'll definitely take them under consideration.