tmorris9

Yes it works every time and literally takes like 2 seconds in the other software. It seems it's Affinity that is the odd one out, I now have 5 different vector programs (all have their strengths and weaknesses) and Affinity is the only one that has this size issue.

BTW I got this idea from the company that makes my CNC machine, I told them of the issue and they suggested the box method and I never looked back because it just works.

Cody, forget trying. What you do is make a box around your design of a known size (does not matter the size as long as you know exactly what it is). Then bring the design into the final use (cutter, laser, CNC, Printer....) and grab the entire design (box around it included) and set the size in that software, it will be the box around it since it's the largest part and when done just delete the box, now your design is exactly at the size you wanted.

Well they got rid of the "set the view" box and I am back to square one. All exports are wrong size again. OK I found it again but now 96dpi works instead of 72 (go figure). At least I can save it as a preset now (now I just need to remember to switch to the preset before exporting).

So far so good

Dan C, that seems to work (with a few simple shapes anyway). Is there a way to make that my default? If I put the program away for a week I am unlikely to remember this.

Tried this, it now imports bigger than it should be. Made a 2" box and it imported as 2.66"

It was on 300 I also tried 96 (due to another post on the subject) but it made no difference. dpi "should" not matter since this is a a pure vector image/file. After posting here I came across 2 more threads on the exact same issue and both threads ended with no solution.

Well turns out that with different sized objects the amount it needs to be scaled by is different. So no way this is going to work out unless this can be fixed.

I have the same issue as well

Just purchased Affinity Designer but have used many other programs like it. I am going to be using it to create .svg files for use with Shapeoko CNC machine. Issue is that when I save as an SVG and open in Carbide Create (the cnc creation software) the opjects are much smaller. I had a perfect rectangle reference size and it turns out I have to scale it by exactly 65.837% to make it the proper size. The CNC software uses inches and it looks like Affinity uses inches as well so it's not a conversion error (like one being metric) so not sure why it's doing this. I won't always have an exact size item so I can scale it and I hate to try and remember 65.837. Any ideas?

I downloaded the trial version 30 minutes ago and already love it. I do have a question, when manipulating shapes by handles with snap to grid turned on I noticed the handles themselves don't snap to grid, is there a way to enable this or is it not implemented? I want to use the program for my CNC machine and some parts need to be extremely accurate and so I would really like the ability to have the handles snap to grid if possible. I am an Adobe refuge. Have Photoshop and Illustrator pre subscription but as I upgrade my Mac's OS they are loosing functionality and on the next upgrade I am told they both will cease to function.