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Same happens to me. My 2 cents, get used to it. Designer is pretty much useless for anything in regards to physical size. It can only usefully export vector graphics in .svg that is notoriously bad at retaining size. It's the ongoing conundrum of Designer that it's a really competent vector drawing app but most of its export options are bitmap based.

Look up my post history and you'll see that I've been posting to this forum about DXF/DWG support for Designer almost since the first release and I've never gotten any commitment one way or the other, so I think we can safely assume that its NOT on the roadmap, nor will it ever be. It's just not a feature that's interesting to the segment Serif is targeting as users for Designer. Edit: Designer is an amazing tool with many excellent features and tool. Its most glaring weakness was and is still its very limited ability to export vector-formats. PDF and SVG.

Thank you for this reply. I do respect your priorities and choices, even though I hoped they would be different. It's your software and you definitely know your customers better than me. I also think that this feature, without moving into an outright CAD application, would broaden that customer base considerably by enabling the software for makers and fablabs. I will resign from further pestering this forum for the feature and buy another group of licenses for CorelDraw instead since DXF/DWG is vital for our labs workflow. Best wishes /schack

Jeg er fuldstændigt enig, bare lidt ærgerligt at Affinity ikke kan læse med på dansk. 🙂 Mht. "at rykke videre" så er det faktisk udfordringen. Det er relativt småt med programmer til mac der supporterer DXF og dem der er, er enten mere umulige at tegne i end AutoCad eller de koster en mindre formue. Jeg har adgang til den nye udgave af CorelDraw gennem mit arbejde og det løser alle mine daglige behov, men det skal ikke forhindre mig i at slå et slag for DXF support i Designer. Det ville være et fantastisk produkt for makere og andre brugere af fx. FabLabs. De er ofte mac-brugere og savner ironisk nok ofte penge til software. 🙂 Men du har nok ret. Jeg har rendt panden mod en mur med Affinity gennem de sidste 5 år. Måske det er på tide at kaste håndklædet i ringen. 😕

For 5 years!?!? They commented about lots of other feature requests. Come up with something better! 😕

So you don't know anything about the file formats I mention but still need to chip in with Adobe bashing and suggest online converters? You clearly have no idea! 😕

Did you notice that most of them are from before there was dedicated feedback threads? One of them being mine and almost 5 years old! 😕

No complaints from me. I did sorta hijack the announcement tread, but calculated that it might get some attention that way. Meh, it sorta didn't. 😕

Have you tried searching for how many request threads there are for this feature? 😄 It might be "the right place" but no one from affinity or any moderator have answered any questions on the subject since 2015!

This completely validates my previous argument. Stonewalled yet again. 😞 If this forum and this post on a new release is NOT the place for this conversation then, i ask, where is?? How do you clarify what your user want and need? Is it only some arbitrary in-house process? Too many expectations you say? I can find requests for this feature dating back to a couple of months after the initial release of Designer. We don't have any expectations left. 🙂

It's fantastic that Affinity regularly updates Designer, Photo and Publisher. And even more fantastic that the updates are free for existing user. Kudos for that. But, and there is a but, I would gladly pay for premium updates and requested features if that would lead to more developers where being hired to work on the software. One of the most requested features since 2015, DXF/DWG filesupport, is sadly again not a part of the current update. And my only guess is a lack of manpower. This feature would open up Designer to a massive market of makers/physical designers (and a range of machines like laser cutters, folio cutters and CNC routers) and would probably pay for itself in increased sales in a very short time. There is only a very few programs with DXF/DWG support on the mac and they all cost 10 times what Designer cost. Lastly I'm perpetually stunned by that lack of communication on this subject. It feels like every time someone writes about it in this forum they are getting stonewalled by moderators or affinity itself. What is that about?

You have been "considering this" since the first requests from users began back in 2015, maybe even earlier. Its been an export option in Illustrator and CorelDraw for ages, even Inkscape does it. I would just like Affinity to come clean about it. Is it even on the roadmap? Do they acknowledge that any modern vector application should be able to export to the most broadly adopted file format across digital production machines? Why has something that seems simple, an export option, taken so long to implement? Is it a royalty issue? I just want some answers since I've been awaiting this since I first bought Designer back in 2015.

They have been "looking into this" since the first requests from users began back in 2015, maybe even earlier. Its been an export option in Illustrator and CorelDraw for ages, even Inkscape does it. I would just like Affinity to come clean about it. Is it even on the roadmap? Do they acknowledge that any modern vector application should be able to export to the most broadly adopted file format across digital production machines? Why has something that seems simple, an export option, taken so long to implement? Is it a royalty issue? I just want some answers since I've been awaiting this since I first bought Designer back in 2015.

Should we just lay this whole DXF issue to rest? Affinity clearly doesn't want to support this and does definitely not what to communicate with their users and paying customers.

Nope. Same route for our design lab. Designer is useless for laser cutters since it can't export DXF or illustrator. Since we're an educational institution we could buy Corel Draw classroom sets for both Mac and Win for about the same cost as Designer. I was actually both surprised and disappointed that neither of the export options was included in the 1.7 release. I've deleted Designer since it won't see much use anymore.