Zeplin normally displays all the layers in your Sketch file, even if they’re grouped. At some point, you might want to keep some groups together, as a single layer. After selecting the layer, use the shortcut “ Cmd + Shift + X ”. You can also do this through the menu: “ Plugins Zeplin Utilities Exclude Sublayers ”. Get started with Zeplin+ Download the Zeplin desktop app for Mac or Windows. You can use the app.
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Designers have published 6,860,86764 Figma, Sketch and Adobe XD designs to Zeplin for development and collaboration in the past 30 days.
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Explore why →Publish designs for development
Go beyond specs. With Zeplin, you can publish finalized designs from Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD and Photoshop.
Developers get a 'locked' design to build from, while designers can iterate on the next great release.
Zeplin is the source of truth for finalized designs, if it’s not in Zeplin it won’t be in the shipped product.
Bring together the multidisciplinary team
An accessible workspace that is friendly to non-designers including developers, product managers, copywriters and more.
Zeplin also helps the team collaborate by providing much needed organization and structure to native design files.
Zeplin provides an inclusive workspace where team members from varying disciplines like product managers, UX writers and more can come together to deliver on designs.
Extend your design system
Drive consistency by surfacing design system elements where developers can easily reuse them. Then, go even further by using Connected Components to extend designs to code!
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Connect your tools and build custom workflows
Leverage your investments in tools like Jira, Trello, Slack and VS Code through deep integrations with Zeplin.
With the Zeplin open API and webhooks, you can also create custom workflows to support your specific needs.
Deliver on the promise of design
Zeplin Sketch Tutorial
Exporting artboards from a Sketch design to Zeplin is quite straightforward. 🚀 To be able to export designs, you need to download the desktop app.
Select any layer/artboard in your Sketch file.
Press ⌃⌘E or use the menu up top “Plugins > Zeplin > Export Selected…” to start export process.
Zeppelin Sketch
☝️ It's sadly not possible to import Sketch files directly into Zeplin since Zeplin works with a plugin. If you don’t see the plugin in the Sketch menu, you can install it here.
Zeplin Sketch Plug In
Zeplin shows the file location on the right panel of the screen if you're the user who exported that screen and you're using the same machine that you used to export. You can directly open the design file in Sketch by clicking on the file name.
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