Layer Groups arrive in WatchMaker Studio

Designers asked, we shipped.

Studio now supports nestable layer groups — select any combination of layers, group them, and treat the whole bundle as one: move, rotate, scale, opacity, visibility, and lock. Children stay editable inside the group.

A few things worth knowing:

  • Nest as deep as you like
    Build dial → hands → ticks → markers hierarchies that match how you actually design.

  • Z-order is parent-scoped
    Layers compete in z-order against siblings sharing the same parent, not across the whole face — so reordering inside a group never disturbs anything outside.

  • Collapse to focus
    Click the chevron in the layer tree to fold a group while you work on something else. Collapsed state is local to your session and isn’t saved into the watch face.

  • Ungroup any time
    Children pop back to the parent with all transforms preserved — nothing gets destroyed.

Available now in Studio, on desktop and mobile.

grouping is an absolut phantastic feature.

idea: please implement “move to group xxx”. that would be very great! so items can be moved easily to concerning group.