Sheryl

I actually tried it but couldn't figure out how to create images without a fill.

I have a Babylock embroidery machine and use their software. It's called Palette 11 but only creates embroidery designs that work on certain Babylock machines. Your daughter's luck that she can get Photoshop for free. I've been using Corel Paint Shop Pro for years. Works a lot like Photoshop but it's more affordable for me. I was tempted to buy their vector software or Corel's software so I could create vector images and save them as svg files but both are so expensive. I'm so glad I stumbled upon Affinity Designer. Seems to do what I'm trying to accomplish and at a great price.

I don't think my program works the way your daughter's does. I don't try and match anything to fabric. I have shapes and then can tell my embroidery software to fill the shapes with different stitches and set the angle and size for the stitches. I can choose whether or not I want an outline and how I want the outline stitched out but as I said in another post, I can only do all that easily if I've imported an svg design into my software. Otherwise I'd have to outline a design and put the different pieces on different layers. In any event, I appreciate the information about the grid. I hadn't discovered that yet but I think it will be helpful when I'm trying to draw designs using vectors.

Thanks.

Thanks. At some point I'm hoping to design a banner and understand that it's best to have your graphics in svg format.

I don't think the size matters in my embroidery software but in order to digitize separate pieces of a design, it has to be an svg file.

I did look into some of those templates but SVGA is about the only format I'm a little familiar with. I have no idea what any of those other formats mean or where you'd use something if you used one of those templates.

Thanks for that information. I'm actually trying to draw images with vectors, export them to svg and then open them in embroidery digitizing software. This is the main reason I bought the program. I just bought the program yesterday so I have lots to learn.

Thanks both of you. I've been playing around with vectors and I have no idea what the best template is to use so I just keep picking "Letter."

I am brand new to Affinity Designer and I've been watching a lot of videos, trying to learn how to use it. I'm watching a video that's showing me how to create an animal figure and I noticed his transform tab on the bottom of the screen was set to pixels. Mine is in inches. I can't seem to find a way to change mine to pixels so if someone could tell me, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks.