Pattern Grouping Engine

About this plugin

Smart Pattern Group is a powerful organizational tool that reads patterns from your text layers—such as dates, codes, or custom identifiers—and instantly groups matching elements into neatly structured sections. Whether you work with repeating designs, campaign assets, deadlines, or any pattern-driven workflow, this plugin turns messy selections into organized, ready-to-review layouts.

Simply select your groups or components, specify which text layer contains your pattern values, and the plugin automatically detects all unique patterns. Choose one or multiple values, and Smart Pattern Group will create beautifully arranged sections with headlines, consistent spacing, and optional auto-layout grids. It also respects sequence suffixes (like _P1, _P2, _P3), allowing precise ordering of elements within each section.

Perfect for teams handling large-scale content variation, weekly campaigns, localization sets, product lots, or any design system that relies on structured grouping.

Core Features

🔍 Reads pattern values from any named text layer (e.g., date, tag)

✨ Automatically detects base patterns and sequence numbers

🧩 Multi-select pattern values → generate multiple sections at once

📐 Smart grid builder with customizable columns, gaps, headlines, and top spacing

🔄 Consistent ordering based on _P1, _P2, _P3, or other numeric suffixes

🧱 Supports groups, frames, components, and instances

🔁 Creates fully reorderable auto-layout grids (optional)

📍 Places new sections near your working area—avoiding overlaps

🗂 Perfect for organizing campaign sets, product lines, variations, or weekly drops

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⭐ Quick Steps (using example format : PromoA_Set3_1/5_P3)

Select your groups that contain a text layer with values like PromoA_Set3_1/5_P3. (Multiple values can be separated by a comma)

Enter the text layer name (e.g., date) and click Scan.

The plugin detects the base pattern PromoA_Set3_1/5 and the sequence P3.

Click the pattern chip (or multiple chips) to choose which patterns to build sections for.

Click Create Section to auto-generate a clean, ordered grid for that pattern.