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Another, perhaps clearer way to phrase this. A mapped mouse hotkey of the spacebar in Photo triggers the closed hand for pan. A mapped mouse hotkey of the spacebar in Designer triggers an open hand for pan. It should trigger the closed hand in order to be useful. Thanks

Yes, I realize its not built into Affinity, as far as mapping mouse keys, which is done in the driver/app of the mouse. I am just curious as to why a mapped hotkey of spacebar performs differently in Affinity Photo than in Affinity Designer. The way it works in Photo is useful, not the way it works in Designer

I am guessing this is a long shot, but I am wondering if any else is using 3D Connexion Cadmouse with the Affinity suite. I have zoom set to middle mouse scroll in Affinity Designer and Photo Preferences which I love b/c it works like I have set up in Rhino3D, Fusion360, Zbrush, Blender, etc. The missing piece of the pie is: I would like my middle mouse button held down to work like holding down the spacebar, ie pan. For those not in the know, the Cadmouse has a separate middle mouse button from the scroll wheel click and it can be mapped to a keystroke, a macro, a radial menu or whatever. If I map that button to spacebar in Affinity Photo it works as if you are pressing spacebar and LMB, ie you can pan; this is what I want. However in Affinity Designer it pulls up the pan hand, and you have to simultaneously hold down LMB, which is very awkward and not what I want. Anyone know how I can get this to work the same in the entire Affinity Suite? Thanks

Has anyone done any extensive testing with Rhino3D layers back and forth with the V2 using either SVG, PDF, or DXF? I am doing some testing today, and I don't see a DXF export in the V2, though import seems work with one layer anyway. If you've already done the legwork, please report the optimal workflow between Affinity Designer V2 and Rhino3D. I need to get 2D geometry from Rhino into V2 and native V2 vectors into Rhino while perserving scale and layers. Please share your workflow if you've got this sorted. Also, McNeel is totally open to sharing and helping with .3DM support for Affinity.

Another +1 for DXF import/Export and the dream of 3DM export. It seems Fusion 360 and Rhino are never going to provide an equivalent pen tool, so this is the way.

I have been checking in on this topic for a few years now. I really need a reasonable way to get linework from Affinity Designer into Rhino3D, and getting from Rhino3D back into Affinity is also needed sometimes. I love the Affinity Software and the business model. I would gladly pay an additional amount to get some increased functionality with DXF/DWG compatibility, or better PDF compatibility on Rhino's end (but that is up to Mcneel). I am sure Affinity users who work with Fusion360, Rhino3D, AutoCAD, FreeCAD etc would also throw in a donation/upgrade fee to get this issue over the hump.

I am still having this issue on my Windows 10 machine. I use one drive files on demand so I can work between my desktop and laptop, so disabling that is not an option. I don't know if this is an Affinity issue or a windows issue but it is making things very difficult. It also is making me consider exporting my AF files as .PSD rather than saving them as .af, because those all display fine. And for the record I have changed the icon size and refreshed. I can see the thumbnail or preview for the Affinity files that are natively stored on my machine or the ones that are on demand. I am a big fan of the product line and I have convinced others to buy it, but it is worrying when major issues like this and the dxf dwg issue go unaddressed for years on end.

+1 to this feature. I'm loving Designer and Photo for the most part, but literally the only thing I wan't to do with Publisher is combine Cover Letter, CV and arrange a portfolio of images into one PDF. I need to do it for job applications constantly. It is possible, but painful.

I would also like to request this feature. I am working between Rhino and Affinity, and though PDF import/export works for some things. I can not get a surface from Rhino back into Affinity as an object with a fill. Just a few thousand exploded vectors with no fill. I would be on the Rhino forums complaining about the PDF export functionality, but McNeel definitely won't listen. Will Serif?

Hi Bruno, I have only just started messing around with Affinity Designer, but I am very much planning on bouncing b/w Rhino and designer. I haven't had that problem with PDF, but what I can say is that you may want to either join your curves, or better yet do a curveboolean in Rhino before you save to PDF. That way you should have closed curves that are not just a bunch of segments.

I have been messing around with some tests between Affinity and Rhino, and I believe I have a solution if you are using Rhino6 or Rhino7WIP. To get curves from Affinity into rhino, simply save as PDF and import the PDF into an open Rhino file. Preserve model units, or just scale it what you need it to be in Rhino. To get curves from Rhino into Affinity, simply go to Print and for the printer, select print to Adobe PDF. You have some options in the View/ Output and Scale , so be sure you are saving the correct view and curves. PDF has worked for me so far both ways. Saving file from Rhino as an .AI file is empty when opened in Affinity Designer. Saving an EPS from Affinity also has not worked when imported into Rhino. But, I am glad to see that the PDF does work to carry the vector info back and forth between Affinity Designer and Rhino. I think I can cut the Adobe cord for now.

Hi, Similarly I am looking for workflow options between Affinity Designer and Rhino. Also, in that vein, has anyone found ways of working with Anfinity Designer for output to laser-cutting, or CNC machining? ai, DWG and DXF are my go to formats to output vector to lasercutter or CAM software, all of which I can do from Rhino and Illustrator. I would love more than anything to leave illustrator behind forever. I will be buying your product, but if you can implement DXF output, it would be a game changer for CNC people who are stuck with Illustrator for the few things it does better than Rhino.