[DXF or DWG file import in Affinity Designer]

5 hours ago, Patrick Connor said:

@DKNsi, @Barefoots, @2MAY, @Samx5 @bg-affinity, @Pellegrino, @Jannis1504, @Outlandish, @SFDeeJay, @Mr Fabulous, @JMEDIT, @MarkK and all the others who have created a forum account in order to post in this thread.

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Serif are aware how popular this would be and are seriously considering it.

I was head of development for DrawPlus X8 (from the Serif legacy range) which had DXF and DWG import functionality. Rather than writing the code from scratch, Serif licensed the technology from a group who have written a comprehensive interchange library. I am now head of QA and not making development decisions, but for Affinity range I think the most effective way to achieve DXF/DWG import/export would be to implement this as a chargeable extra or plugin of some sort, paying the licensor their dues for each user who needs the functionality, rather than raising the price of every Designer (and potentially Publisher) license for creatives/users who do not use these formats. Just my 2 cents

Charging for this is silly especially with the added comment about inkscape and open source stuff this isnt rocket science compared to even the rest of the tools in affinity designer. Thats the part that is silly to me. This is the perfect example of affinity having blinders on in terms of priorities.

Also, way more people want dxf than people who make accounts specifically to post here. You cannot think this is the total user base, this is just the user base who gave enough of a hoot to make accounts they otherwise never would have just to pile on to this ONE needed feature. Chew on that  im one of them too.

 

all that said , AFFINITY IF YOU ARE READING THIS PLEASE DO IT ILL TOTALLY PAY JUST DO IT SO I CAN DELETE ADOBE FOR GOOD. THIS IS THE ONLY THING HOLDING MOST OF US BACK.