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That's just a really quick way of firing up the Figma plugin again. Once again, it's just giving us the page name; we can confirm that it's going to convert the "Master Page" and because this file only has 57 layers, it's telling us it's going to take about one second. We can try that out once again just by clicking on the "Convert to Sketch" button, and it's fairly accurate, as it took literally one second to convert that Figma design.

That's just an idea of how fast it can actually export files if you if you have a really small file; it's very quick. I can open that one up just to see what it looks like, and that's opened it up for us in Sketch. The thing I wanted to call out in this file is that because I didn't have the font installed on my computer, Sketch is telling me up in the top right hand corner here that it's got missing fonts; if I click on that little "Missing Fonts" button, it's just going to come up with a little drop down saying these three fonts couldn't be found on the system.

We can manually replace them, I can do that now, and I think that the ones used in the design were slightly different versions from the one that I had on my computer; if that happens to you, this is all you have to do, you just have to go through the missing fonts by clicking on that button in the top right and then once you've selected the replacements, just click on the "Confirm" button in the Sketch dialog, and you can see here it's swapped those fonts out and now we're looking very similar or exactly the same, rather to what we can see in our Figma file and once again these are now editable; I can update that textto say "Figma to Sketch" and that will update for me; I'll just bring that out a little bit more, there we go.

As before, all of the layers have been carried over, we've got our vector layers; these are these are fully carried over from Figma and I can move those around, obviously. I just wanted to show you what the font the missing fonts prompt would look like and show you how to replace those fonts if you do run into that issue, and also just show you the speed at which it can convert files with less layers.

Okay, now that we've done Figma file number two, I just wanted to show you another file; this is a little bit of a different type of file, this is one with multiple frames, multiple layers, multiple components being used and I just wanted to show you what it looks like to convert a file like this. Once again, we can go to the right hand column click on Convertify; I'll fire that up once again and the thing that I wanted to demo in this file is if you are working in a much larger file with heaps of screens and heaps of things going on and you want to send this to somebody; it's got an exact replica of what they would normally see when they open it up in Figma.

I've just purposefully zoomed in on this exact spot here, I can even zoom in a little bit more if I wanted to or I could just zoom to fit and I just wanted to show you what it looks like when it replicates the zoom level over. If we click on "Convert to Sketch", I'll just leave this running in the background, this one has over 2, layers; it's going to take more like 54 seconds and the little note here just says it may actually be faster or slower depending on the number of nested layers or large images that the file has.

You can see here it's actually taken less than 54 seconds in this case but if you do have really big images that can slow down the conversion a little bit; I'm just going to save that and I'm not going to move the zoom level or the the bounds scroll level in Figma, and I'm just going to show you what that looks like when I open up the Sketch file for the very first time.

If I double click on this and open it up you can see here that it's exactly mirrored the zoom level and it's exactly mirrored the positioning of where I had the the Figma view when I when I converted it; you can see here if we compare them we've got 22 zoom in Sketch and we've got a 22 zoom in Figma.

Converting it from Figma to Sketch with that zoom level and with that positioning; in my my case I clicked on the "zoom to fit" function which centered everything; that means that when I send this file to another designer they're going to have exactly the same overview exactly the same positioning and zoom that I wanted to have in Figma.

Obviously because Figma is a multiplayer app where you can have different designers at the same time this this isn't an issue in Figma, but I just wanted to show you how it does actually carry over that zoom. I if I were to do another example, and if I was working on this particular part of the the app or the design if I run the Convertify Figma plugin once more, and now I've got it zoomed in at , and I've got it focused on this little profile mockup with this little modal that should open it up in Sketch zoomed in at and focus on this exact same artboard.

The other thing to note is it tells you down here that Figma will freeze up during this phase of the conversion where it's going through all of the layers; I just want to point that out as well in case you're wondering why the UI is unresponsive while the the Figma plugin is converting; that's totally normal. I've just re-exported this one, and again if I double click on this and open it in Sketch, we should see a different zoom level and a different scroll level; we can see here if I put those side by side it has replicated that zoom level and it's replicated the exact point where I scrolled to in the Figma design.

That's just a neat feature that the Figma plugin offers and it's just a nice way of being able to zoom to fit everything or zoom in on a particular part in your Figma design before you actually package it up for another designer. In my case, I really like using the "zoom to fit" function and just making it show everything, just so whoever's receiving that Sketch file will get a clear overview of what the file contains, but again, that choice is is totally up to you.

The next thing I want to show is a much larger file; this is a design system and this is one of the biggest ones that I'm aware of. This is the "Ant Design System", it's an open source design system and I'm just going to show you what it looks like to convert a file of this this size, because there's quite a lot going on here; there's quite a lot of components, there's quite a lot of layers and I just wanted to show you what that looks like in terms of speed, but also what that looked like in terms of detail.

I'm just going to convert it now because it's going to take about three to four minutes, but this one has almost 10, layers, so this is a fairly large file. I'm just going to start converting this from Figma to Sketch now by clicking on the "Convert to Sketch" button, and once again you'll see down here it's telling us that it's being converted, it's converting the page. I just touched on this a moment ago, but it does let you know that Figma will freeze and that's totally normal; for example if I try and click on anything Figma, is completely unresponsive and just while this is converting, I'll touch on why that is happening.

The reason why I can't move the Figma plugin around and I can't keep working while the Figma plugin is running is because the functions that the plugin is doing behind the scenes, using the Figma Plugin API, by necessity calling these Figma Plugin APIs basically hijacks the main thread of Figma; while the Figma plugin is doing intensive querying and intensive work behind the scenes, querying your Figma design data, Figma basically diverts all of the processing power to that that plugin process; that's the reason why the UI completely locks up; it basically doesn't do both things at the same time.

Normally, this would be fine because a lot of Figma plugin functions are very quick or don't do very much, but because this Figma plugin literally trawls through every single layer, in this case almost 10, layers, and is querying image data it's manipulating data behind the scenes, it's doing a lot of intensive work in order to generate these Sketch files from Figma and translate all those Figma layers into Sketch layers, converting all those layers, so that's why it freezes the IU, basically.

That's a long a long way to say: it's totally normal and you don't have to panic or wonder if it's broken; that's also the reason why it's giving you a time estimate there, because if you're just seeing that kind of spinning around in circles you're wondering "it is it actually going to finish or not? Okay, now that the conversion process is done, you can see that it's now up to the step of bundling the Sketch file, which means that the UI is responsive once again because the processing part is finished.

It's literally now just packaging up a Sketch file with all of the image assets, all of the layer assets, and all of the files for us. It's just finished that, and you can see here it's giving us the choice to save it with the project name and the page name; again I'm just going to opt-in for the default file name and save that to my desktop. I'll close off the Figma plugin, and I'll just make the window a little bit smaller so we can compare that. If I jump back to my desktop, you can see here it's converted the Ant Design System; I'm going to double click on that file let Sketch open it up for us, and there we go.

If I put those side by side once again, you can see that the positioning has stayed the same as we saw in the last segment and it's basically converted all of our artboards with all the names that we'd expect, "Navigation", "Data Entry" and I'll give you a quick overview of the full file, because it's quite large; but you can see that it has basically gone through and converted all of those.

If I just zoom in a little bit, you can see what that looks like; if we jump to same one in Figma and try to compare those a little bit, now we're basically looking at the same sections and you can see that it's gone ahead and converted all those layers. Once again, I can jump in here and edit these files, edit these layers, that's my Figma to Sketch text layer; I can edit that of course and these groups I can move them around as you'd expect.

So, that's what it looks like to convert a Figma file with 10, layers over to Sketch in a few minutes. Once again, doing this manually would be a project that would take days of time ,if not longer in this case, to convert all of these files and designs from Figma to Sketch manually.

I've seen it happen before with designers I used to work with, where they had to do this for certain clients and it took days, if not weeks of time to get it done if you do it manually. So, that's what it looks like to convert a really big file from Figma to Sketch.. The final one I want to show you is just another sort of wireframing kit, or design system kit; the reason I want to show this one is because there's quite a lot of vectors in there, and I just wanted to emphasize what that looks like when they get carried over, too.

If I just click on the "Convertify" icon again, I'll close off my Sketch file and make Figma a little bit bigger. Okay, again,this one has about 7, layers, so I'm just going to convert that from Figma to Sketch now, as it's going to take roughly three minutes.

Again, it depends on how many nested layers there are and how many large images there are, I don't think this one has heaps of large images, so the bundling time should be a little bit faster, but the number of layers and the number of nested layers is really what determines this particular phase of the conversion from Figma to Sketch, when it's going through all of the Figma layers and extracting the data from them translating that into the Sketch format; that's really where the intensive stuff happens and that's where it's trawling through all of those layers and sub layers in order to to get all those Sketch layers the way that they should be.

Once again, this is just going to freeze up the UI for a little bit, it's nothing to to worry about or panic about, it will eventually finish, so you can just leave it for for a couple of minutes and that'll work.

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Download the exported. To use Convertify Install Convertify and run the plugin in your Figma file. Switch to the page you would like to convert. Click on your desired Convert button. Wait for the conversion process to finish. Click the Download button to save your file! License After you've tried exporting your Figma designs with Convertify 10 times, you'll be asked to enter your license key.

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