Manage Designs

Task guides for the life of a design file - import, save, clone, export, embed, publish, and delete.

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Designer

A design is a single record in Layer5 Cloud. It has one owner, lives in one workspace, and carries a visibility (private, public, or published) and a version. These guides cover each way a design enters, changes state, and leaves that record.

Two defaults shape everything below. A design saved for the first time is public, whatever visibility the client requests. Every save of an existing design raises its patch version by one (0.0.1, 0.0.2, and so on).

Goal	Guide
Bring in a manifest, Helm chart, Compose file, Kustomize project, or design, or merge one design into another	Import and Merge Designs
Understand autosave, the save indicator, Save as, and plan limits	Save Designs
Start from a public or published design	Clone a Design
Back up a design or hand it to other tools	Export Designs
Show a design on another site	Embed Designs
Make a design available in the catalog	Publish Designs
Remove a design permanently	Delete a Design

For the exact formats Kanvas accepts and produces, see Supported Import and Export Formats. To share a design with specific people, see Share Designs.

Where designs go 🔗

Every new design lands in exactly one workspace: the workspace you have selected for the current organization, or the first workspace you can see in that organization. If the organization has no workspace, saving, importing, and cloning fail. Creating a design is refused while the organization selector is set to all.

Anonymous users on kanvas.new can create, save, and import designs. Those designs move to the account when the user signs in. Sharing and publishing require an account.