Selective Surgery

Super smart batch selection by name, type, component, text content, or visibility.

Selective Surgery is a plugin for Figma that makes bulk editing a breeze. It offers a convenient palette of methods to quickly get your hands on the layers you need. Whenever you find yourself cmd + click'ing, use Selective Surgery instead!

1) Launch the pluginUse the Plugins > Selective Surgery menu itemor better yet...Use the quick actions bar (⌘ Command + /). Find Selective Surgery in the list!

2) Choose your operation 🔪➤ By Name - select layers by name💡 Selective Surgery will aggregate all unique names in the current selection scope and provide helpful fuzzy matching.

Conditions:isis notincludedoes not includematches regex➤ By Component - select layers by a specific component instance💡 The plugin will pull up all unique components used in the current selection scopeConditions:isis not➤ By Type - select layers by their native Figma typeConditions:isis notFigma Types:

TextRectangleLineEllipseImageGroupFrameComponentComponent InstanceVectorPolygonUnionSubtractIntersectExcludeStarSlice➤ By Text Content - select objects by text contentsConditions:isis notincludedoes not includematches regex➤ By Visibility - select layers by whether they are hidden or shownConditions:isis not3) Do something with your selection!

Examples:

Bulk update text styles across deeply nested layersConcurrently paste the same things into multiple framesBlast all the pesky hidden layers in your DS that slow everything downSkillfully rename all those pesky Frame 134081 copies...or any normal design task you might do in Figma-----Made @ Free Association