Artboards and Layers....

Am I to understand if I have multiple artboards, they all will share the same layers? Each artboard does not have it's own separate set of layers, am I right? This is my first time using the artboard feature... CS6.

Hi,
You are correct multiple artboards share the same set of layers. Layers in illustrator are specific to a document & not to a particular artboard.
If you want to distribute your layer sets according to the artboards, you can do the following:
1. Select the rows in the layers panel itself.
a)To select continuous rows in layers panel, select the first row by clicking on it & shift + click on the last row to be selected.
b)To select discontinuous rows, select the row by clicking & holding Ctrl (Cmd on MAC) key.
2. And then, from flyout menu of layers panel, select Collect in New Layer.
Also, you can click & drag out the items manually to different layers as required.
Hope this helps.
Thanks!

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woah... ok. so what you posted didn't really work (i had made a revision to that part of the code after my initial post. i realized i was dividing by two twice, so i removed one of those. as a result, i had to remove this "var posW = aBLeft+(aBRight + aBLeft)/2" and i had to add the right edge and left edge instead of subtracting).. but i removed some stuff and switched my variables and now it does work. this is what i ended up doing
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So.. i'm really glad that it's working.. but i don't really know why it is.. as has been the bane of my existence as a self teaching coder.. if you have a moment, could you explain what's different about my part and your correction? I'm sure something like that will come up again in the future and i'd love to know where i went wrong. =)
I really really appreciate your help, kind friend. pixxxel schubser
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