Artboards
An artboard is just a view of a component. You can have many artboards viewing a component, each one viewing it in a different variant.
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Normally these are managed for you, since you’re always focused on some page or component. But in custom arenas, you can freely create and arrange your artboards.
When you create a “scratch” artboard, it actually isn’t associated with a component at all. It’s just a blank canvas for you to draw on—a scratch space. You can convert a scratch artboard into a component, after which the artboard will be a view of that component. Do so by selecting an artboard and clicking this button in the right sidebar.
When an artboard is a view of a component, we call that a bound artboard. You are directly editing the component master in that artboard. (You can also edit the component master anywhere there is an instance of a component—double-clicking instances drills into editing the master in Spotlight Mode.)
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