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    bdrex got a reaction from tecnico3 in DXF or DWG file import in Affinity Designer   
    +1
    I'm looking to replace Illustrator completely - as a Product Designer, I frequently need to use DXF files for interchange and conversion when prototyping products.
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    bdrex got a reaction from Barefoots in DXF or DWG file import in Affinity Designer   
    +1
    I'm looking to replace Illustrator completely - as a Product Designer, I frequently need to use DXF files for interchange and conversion when prototyping products.
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    bdrex reacted to Jowday in Auto weld nodes option   
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    bdrex reacted to JET_Affinity in Auto weld nodes option   
    For clarity, I certainly hope no one is asking for this to be a default behavior.
    I do not want an endNode of a path to auto-join to another path just because I drag it to within pick distance of another path's end. There are countless situations in illustration in which one draws coincident paths that should not be joined. Look no further than paths of different weights, color, or other style attributes that nonetheless need to have coincident ends. What about when more than two endNodes are coincident? How is the program supposed to know which path I would want it to auto-join to?
    The auto-joining behavior of Adobe Illustrator's Pen, for example, is one of its most infuriatingly intrusive stumbling blocks. To avoid its infernal insistence on auto-joining to other deselected paths when drawing, you actually have to invoke this ridiculous override:
    Mousedown somewhere that you don't want the next node to be Press and hold the spacebar Drag to where you do want it the node to be Mouseup Release the spacebar A path drawing tool is not a selection tool, and should not act like one. It has no business affecting unselected paths just because you need to place a node within pick distance of another path's endnode. Nor should it occur when just dragging an endNode.
    At most, any such behavior should have to be invoked by a keyboard shortcut. It should not be default behavior.
    The  task of cleaning up DXF files is an oft-cited use case, and one with which I am quite familiar, having been doing technical illustration since well before personal computers. But it's still a specifically vertical use case; nothing that should be cited to justify a default behavior. Other programs accommodate it with separate, explicitly-invoked menu commands. You select the paths you want to be affected and then invoke the joining command (with whatever parameters offered in a dialog). If that's what you're recommending, I'm fine with it. But auto-joining as default behavior is bad.
    JET
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    bdrex reacted to tmvideo in Auto weld nodes option   
    Please add auto-weld (auto-join) option for curve editing.
    It will be extremely useful for workflow.
    1) Auto-weld automatically when drag one node on another
    2) Auto-weld button with specified distance between nodes (example: select all nodes of curve, press auto-weld by distance).
    Also please fix: nodes handles are changing their direction when two nodes join together.
     
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    bdrex reacted to JimmyJack in ¿HowTo: Fuse/Weld Adjacent Nodes?   
    I've been begging for this for months, and months, and months, and months, and months...
     
    Ironically, the two independent handles are respected when joining the endpoints of separate curves.
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    bdrex reacted to ronnyb in ¿HowTo: Fuse/Weld Adjacent Nodes?   
    +1 for a proper Join and Average commands for Fusing nodes; happy to agree with @deeds on this one, this is important functionality...
     
    Average = average the X and Y position of selected nodes
    Join or Fuse or Weld = Collapses 2 nodes into one
     
    It would be great to have a way to apply BOTH of these commands at the same time, OR separately...
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    bdrex got a reaction from bgspa in DXF or DWG file import in Affinity Designer   
    +1
    I'm looking to replace Illustrator completely - as a Product Designer, I frequently need to use DXF files for interchange and conversion when prototyping products.
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    bdrex reacted to JET_Affinity in DXF or DWG file import in Affinity Designer   
    I've used Canvas since it was a Macintosh Desk Accessory. Its primary differentiator had nothing to do with 'CAD', but that it combined raster and vector editing at the object level, as opposed to treating them as separate 'layers' like Silicon Graphics SuperPaint. Canvas is and always has been a general-purpose illustration and design program, squarely in the same category as FreeHand, Illustrator, Draw, and all the others.
    Deneba's marketing just never acted 'ashamed' of its being suitable for technical-commercial illustration, as if that's some kind of red-headed stepchild, like most other vendors in this category do. It later turned that into its 'niche' marketing theme. But the program is not really as niche as its marketing suggests.
    Canvas's interface  style is 'dated' much in the same way that Inkscape's is: merely in regards to the fadish blacked-out everything that has become the defacto standard these days, which I'm convinced just spins off from the aesthetics of the video game generation. That's a fad which itself has become cliche and dated, and I'll be more than happy to see it fade away. (It's as bad practice to do serious graphics work in dark environments as it ever was.) But just as in Inkscape, that has nothing to do with functionality.
    The more significantly 'dated' aspect of Canvas's interface is organizational metaphor. For example, 'Inks' and 'Pens' are arguably more metaphorically intuitive than 'Swatches' and 'Strokes,' but not to those now long accustomed to Illustrator and all the brands that incessantly mimic it.
    Affinity is doing just that, in principle. Canvas's marketing has long touted its…um…affinity for technical illustration. But, for example, browse its feature set and show me what's actually there expressly supportive of axonometric drawing.
    But here's the deal regarding Canvas:
    I rejoiced upon hearing that venerable Canvas had finally escaped the stifling clutches of ACD. I immediately thereafter abandoned it altogether when its new management foisted the Adobe-esque rental-only licensing scheme. So here is an over 30-year advocate of Canvas who will never pay another cent toward its continuance.
    No, Affinity Designer does not yet have a DXF import filter. But I'm confident it will, simply on the basis that it clearly does not eschew technical-commercial drawing discipline. It's just a matter of priority.
    You want to talk about Canvas? Has anyone here tried Corel Technical Designer? (A program I do still pay for because it so far does not force-feed that money-for-nothing marketing scam)? Do you realize that Affinity's axonometric grid feature is much like that program's (slightly earlier) similar feature, at a cost of about 8% as much? So no, Serif is not afraid of providing for tech-ish commercial illustration.
    It's not helping 'the cause' to continually trot out the 'CAD word.' I dare say most users of mainstream vector drawing programs have never done any drafting, and are turned-off by (if not downright fearful of) any mention of it.
    Why do we need DXF? It mostly boils down to this: Generally speaking, CAD programs don't export flattened drawings of their models as Bezier curves. They export curves as dumbed-down, penup-pendown-moveto faceted polylines in an increasingly archaic format called DXF that effectively undoes the supposed resolution independence of vector-based paths in the first place. It's needed for the sake of commercial illustration, not for the sake of CAD. That's what users with little-to-no CAD experience need to understand.
    The format itself is pretty lame. But for a decent mainstream general-use vector drawing program to work with it efficiently, other features are needed. You need a good flood fill feature. You need a really good join and smooth feature, hopefully (since this is the 21st century, after all) with at least some shape recognition capability. (Want to know how many times I've had to tediously 'inform' the drawing that those holes in the frame rails are closed ellipses?)
    So my hope, as always, is that delays for features in Affinity really do stem from its developers' desire to do something better than standard-fare, and their understanding that well-implemented features are not standalone, but need to integrate well with the rest of the feature set. That's how an elegant program becomes more than just the sum of its individual features. Doing that requires systematic priority.
    JET
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    bdrex got a reaction from skybeat in DXF or DWG file import in Affinity Designer   
    +1
    I'm looking to replace Illustrator completely - as a Product Designer, I frequently need to use DXF files for interchange and conversion when prototyping products.
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    bdrex reacted to johnedlin in DXF or DWG file import in Affinity Designer   
    I work with Lasers and they use DXF files. I bought this program with the expectancy that it would handle these very useful file types. People have been asking Serif for 5 years now and nothing is being done to help a lot of interested people. Come on Serif team, sort this issue out and help a lot of people.
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    bdrex reacted to J.L. Forrest in DXF or DWG file import in Affinity Designer   
    It's nearly the end of 2020, folks, and Designer still doesn't do this. 
    Huge +1, Affinity. It's a major failing of Designer that it won't handle DXF/DWG.
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    bdrex reacted to SullenSquid in DXF or DWG file import in Affinity Designer   
    DXF / DWG support pretty-please! 
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    bdrex reacted to JQL in DXF or DWG file import in Affinity Designer   
    +1
     
    Architect using Photo for renderings. Could see myself using Designer and Publisher too if you'd support DWG, DXF and Dimensioning tools. I imagine a lot of other architects doing the same.
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    bdrex reacted to DGE McMillan in DXF or DWG file import in Affinity Designer   
    I really like the software. Very nice layout and I found it easy to use.
    A DXF or DWG import feature would be ideal. I am working in SolidWorks and generate my drawing outputs directly from my 3D CAD models as DXFs.
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    bdrex reacted to Comet in DXF or DWG file import in Affinity Designer   
    Hard to understand why DWG/DXF import is not already present in Designer. It is a crucial interchange format.
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    bdrex reacted to VAdesigner in DXF or DWG file import in Affinity Designer   
    DWG. PLEASE!!

    As product designer, and working with Solidworks, all days, I really miss DWG impot/export.
     
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    bdrex reacted to ga739496 in DXF or DWG file import in Affinity Designer   
    DWG and DXF support please
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    bdrex reacted to GeoQer in DXF or DWG file import in Affinity Designer   
    Yes, DXF support please
     
    Thank you.
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    bdrex reacted to jc4d in DXF or DWG file import in Affinity Designer   
    I open DXF in PhotoLine and save it in some other format that Designer can open.
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