chrisr

I’ll be perfectly honest—I still haven’t had the time to learn Affinity Designer! I did import the image into AD and exported it into Design Space. It ended up not working out for me because it was too difficult to weed and the image was way too big, but that’s another issue. You might want to join a Facebook group called Affinity Designer for Crafters. There are a few people who use a Cricut there who would be glad to help you. Also, Jennifer Maker has a blog and Facebook page on working with SVGs for Design Space. She uses Adobe Illustrator and Inkspace, but I’m sure the concepts would be the same for AD. You might want to look her up. She is advertising a course for designing your own SVGs (using those programs). Early bird registration is over. It was $100 last night for $149 I think. If you are interested, maybe you could email her and ask if you could still get that price and ask if it would be useful for Affinity Designer users. I wish I could be more help. I also wish I was more disciplined and took the time to learn the program. I see so many people doing great things with it for their Cricut. There’s a good opportunity for someone to make some money teaching AD for the Cricut, I think! Chris

Yeah, I probably missed a few spots! Thanks for your insight. I’ll know now to look for EPS files. Although I now now from trying to weed this that it’s way beyond my skill level.

Update: I posted in the Cricut Facebook group and they suggested I upload the image in a free SVG converter (I used picsvg). It worked great and I was able to upload the image into Cricut Design Space. For a test, I took that SVG into AD and tried erasing the halo around the shell and re-saving it as an SVG. At that point Cricut Design Space rejected it saying it doesn't support clipping. Very strange. The only thing I did was erase the halo and resave it. So there must be some setting I need to change in AF on export is all. I will fiddle with it more but I'm happy with the SVG converter in the meantime. But, on the other hand, I also tried weeding a small portion of my image and oh my, what a nightmare. Image attached (ashamed at how horrible it looks!). I may have to enlarge the image twice the size to be able to weed this baby. It will take a whole lot of patience. If all else fails, I will be printing this instead of my original plan. Again, thanks everyone for your assistance. If you can think of what I need to change in my export settings, let me know. I've kept them default.

I just wanted to let everyone know that I was able to upload the image into Cricut Design Space and I clicked on each individual space in the design to make it transparent and it worked out. It's not the best solution because it was a tedious job clicking on each of those spaces and I would love to know how to do it the right way. But I didn't want anyone to go to the trouble of working through a solution for me when I got the job done for the time being. I need to sit down one day and learn the program for sure. Here's the final graphic in Design Space, nice and clean. Thanks again for your offer of assistance. I hope this project works out after all of this. If not, I'll just print the image. I really like it.

I'm going to be logging off for a while to fix dinner and I have a friend stopping by this evening. Don't want you to think I'm abandoning you. I appreciate everyone pitching in to try to solve my problem. I'll pick up again a little later tonight when you all will probably be sleeping, as you are 5 hours ahead of my in Florida, USA. Will this image be no good? UGH! I took the largest file thinking it was the best. There was no SVG choice here. Oh well.

I have used up my 5 downloads and cancelled my free subscription, so I can't download anymore from them.

I am going to load it on my Cricut and cut it on vinyl and make a decal out of it. The hard part will be weeding all the dead space out of this! I don't know what I'm getting myself into. I have lots more of these files where this came from that I want to try if this works. Here is the page where the file came from if this helps any. https://www.dreamstime.com/search.php?srh_field=mandala shell&s_all=y&s_ph=y&s_il=y&s_video=y&s_audio=y&s_ad=n&s_sl0=y&s_sl1=y&s_sl2=y&s_sl3=y&s_sl4=y&s_sl5=y&s_orp=y&s_orl=y&s_ors=y&s_orw=y&s_clc=y&s_clm=y&s_rsf=0&s_rst=7&s_st=new&s_sm=all&s_mrg=1&s_mrc1=y&s_mrc2=y&s_mrc3=y&s_mrc4=y&s_mrc5=y&s_exc=&pg=3

I do, but it won't upload here. I get an error message. It's a JPEG file.

I did click Rasterize on one step because I didn't know what else to try! But I undid that when it didn't help. I have a lot of iterations saved in my folder.

I'm having trouble uploading the file. It's a jpeg. 2.8MB. I'll try my file that I saved as an SVG. designer shell 3rd try.afdesign

I didn't want to get rid of the white inside the shell. Wouldn't that make the inside of the shell transparent as well? I already spent the time erasing the white background, which is no big deal. My problem now is that the Cricut Design Space is telling me that it doesn't support clipping paths. I don't know what to do to work around that. Is there a way to flatten my image (not that I even know what that is; I've just heard that term before.)? The image needs to be an SVG file for the Cricut. In the end, I will be cutting this design out of vinyl to give you an idea of what I need it for. The white part inside the shell will be weeded away, leaving only the black parts. Duh, yes I do want to get rid of the white inside the shell.

This is my first time opening Designer so I don't know what I'm doing. I imported a mandala design that was supposedly an SVG but it had a white background when I tried importing it into Cricut Design Space. I knew that I could use the eraser tool in Affinity Designer so I imported it and started erasing away. I worked on it for several hours over a two-day period and saved the file as an SVG. Just tried importing it again into Cricut's Design Space and got a blank screen with the message that it doesn't support clipping paths. I'm at a standstill now. I searched the forum and found another person who had the same problem and I tried the suggestion of unticking the Set View box in the Export window, but that didn't help. I'm attaching a screen shot of my file if that helps any with giving me some pointers. I don't even know how to resize the image--that's how little I know about AD right now. I just knew how to erase the white background! Go easy on me. I will learn it eventually but I want to get this done.