Instance swap
You used instance swap in a layer in a component instance.
Select Reset overrides to revert the instance swap and change the main component so that swapping is not needed.
How to construct components without instance swap
The following example shows an icon button component built without using instance swap. An instance of an icon component that has different icons as variants is nested within the IconButton component.
The properties of the nested icon instance are exposed in the component properties panel.
When the properties of the nested icon instance are exposed in the component properties panel, selecting a different icon from the variants of the icon component becomes easy.
An instance of the IconButton.
See also Fix conversion issues, Components, and Variants.
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