Pep75

So, Designer is now able to import and export DWG's. That's great, that's fantastic. As fantastic is the measure tool. Brilliant. But it would be groundbreaking if you can add dimension to the drawing!!! You’ll have all the architecture-related people who are going to use Designer! You are near there!!! Please please please add this, and vector patterns..😁😅

I really really really mis this the most in Affinity Designer! Just a decent vector pattern tool.

So, Designer is now able to import and export DWG's. That's great, that's fantastic. As fantastic is the measure tool. Brilliant. But it would be groundbreaking if you can add dimension to the drawing!!! You’ll have all the architecture-related people who are going to use Designer! You are near there!!! Please please please add this, and vector patterns..😁😅

So, Designer is now able to import and export DWG's. That's great, that's fantastic. As fantastic is the measure tool. Brilliant. But it would be groundbreaking if you can add dimension to the drawing!!! You’ll have all the architecture-related people who are going to use Designer! You are near there!!! Please please please add this, and vector patterns..😁😅

Having this feature would save me the additional steps of exporting a bitmap image every time I need to edit my patterns that are defined using Affinity Designer's Bitmap Fill workaround.

As well, it's important for those like myself who use Affinity Designer art in vector animation programs where vector art is required for all assets so that they maintain their crisp quality no matter how large they appear on screen.

I add my vote to this too!  +1

I'm just going to keep bumping this feature request whenever it surfaces. 
Vector pattern fill is one of the few features of Illustrator that I really miss. I used it regularly and frequently notice its absence.

This is a must have as far as my work goes.  I've been doing hacks to get around it - but at a cost of many hours, literally.  I vote +1

Just reposting this v1 feature request in the v2 feedback forum.
Would be good to know if implementing this feature is even possible, I assume the inner software architecture doesn't allow it (only bitmaps) and it might only be possible with a hacky and unstable implementation, but if you can confirm it at least we can close the question with a definite answer.
Here's the v1 thread: 
 

Hello! I have also been having problems with this issue. It makes Publisher unpredictable, since I never know what text frame I may have accidentally resized.
When I have a bunch of linked textframes, it is not uncommon that the text varies sligthly in size without me noticing it. 
Or, if I notice it and adjust the text size in the second text frame, and then the text flows back into the modified text frame -- the size will change again!
The only solution I have found is to delete all textframes and start from the beginning. 
Does anyone know if I can reset the size in the textframes? Or at least identify if any textframe in my document affiects the text size? Thanks! 

This is about the only thing that still prevents me from ditching Corel Draw in favor of Affinity Designer. 
The ability to add configurable snapped dimension lines ( that auto-dimension as needed) is essential to my use case...

Still can't believe they gave us an import but not and export. 
Like wtf..

Thousands of your users have been asking for DXF Export in Designer for years
..v2 has been released with import only!
..why is this!??? EXPORT functionality is by far the most useful and necessary workflow for 2D & 3D professionals
..I'm dying over here  ..or is this some kind of trick?
 

I think lots of people have reported this.

The processing could be improved so that generation of the preview of the first page of the specified range is shown as soon as possible (similarly as when only one page is selected to be exported) and the actual "prerendering" performed in the background. As preview is now always shown, users typically wait for preview to appear simply to verify that rendering is as expected, without necessarily realizing that it is not necessary to wait for the process to finish (or preview to be displayed). That a full "prerendering" is done is ok since it e.g. shows realistically the file size and whether something will be rasterized in the export.

You're not doing anything wrong, I find it really slow, too, so I just ignore the preview and export immediately.
With my current book file it takes 2 minutes and 43 seconds to generate a pdf preview on an M1 Pro. And the preview is just of the first page which has a single text frame with six words of text. The problem is that Publisher goes through the entire document to preview it and calculate file size but shows just a preview of just one page.
 

Vector patters is the feature more important to me.  I am surprised that V2 is still the same than V1.
With respecto to Affinity is faster than AI.

I'm now three weeks working with Affinity Designer v2 instead of Adobe Illustrator and I really mis these functions which keep me with Adobe right now.
- No DWG export;
- No vector patterns and brushes;
- No 3d tools;
- No bleeds visible when using artboards;
- Designer is getting sluggish after a while.

I want to switch so much! Pleas Affinity keep it up!
 

Pep75: If you hold the CTRL key down when you launch the application you will see an option in the dialog for “Reset Document Presets”.
By checking that option you should get the default Presets back but any personal Presets you had would be lost across all of your Affinity applications on that machine.
It might be better to wait to do that later - if you can wait - as this problem might just be a symptom of a larger problem that needs further looking into.
If you can wait then someone will hopefully be along to help you look into it more (it’s not something I can diagnose).

We are in version 2.0 and this problem still exist. After a couple of hourse Designer gets supper laggry and unresponsive.
No fix to this , yet?

I cannot be sure about this but my experience (with both versions 1 and2) shows that when things get slow, in any of the trio, I need to save the file. Very occasionally I may have to also quit and start the application again.

Dear Affinity Designer Developers,
I've bought the entire Affinity Suite😁 and tried to switch with my workflow from Adobe, but yet Designer, for me, is still missing some tools. Oh, I'm based in Amsterdam and working freelance as an interior architect/architect/graphic designer...designing exhibitions/ experiences etc.
Missing essential functions;
Tracing images; More gradient tools like Illustrator (with pins); Creating patterns the easy way (like Illustrator) and add them as swatches (even in Photo); Isolation mode; Free transform / distort; More line types (like pattern line types); Import DWG/DXF/SKP; I know other freelance designers are really missing these functions in Affinity and keep them for switching completely, so please integrate these and I'm redeemed.
Thanks muchos in advance!
Pep
 

Dear Affinity Designer Developers,
I've bought the entire Affinity Suite😁 and tried to switch with my workflow from Adobe, but yet Designer, for me, is still missing some tools. Oh, I'm based in Amsterdam and working freelance as an interior architect/architect/graphic designer...designing exhibitions/ experiences etc.
Missing essential functions;
Tracing images; More gradient tools like Illustrator (with pins); Creating patterns the easy way (like Illustrator) and add them as swatches (even in Photo); Isolation mode; Free transform / distort; More line types (like pattern line types); Import DWG/DXF/SKP; I know other freelance designers are really missing these functions in Affinity and keep them for switching completely, so please integrate these and I'm redeemed.
Thanks muchos in advance!
Pep
 

Dear Affinity Designer Developers,
I've bought the entire Affinity Suite😁 and tried to switch with my workflow from Adobe, but yet Designer, for me, is still missing some tools. Oh, I'm based in Amsterdam and working freelance as an interior architect/architect/graphic designer...designing exhibitions/ experiences etc.
Missing essential functions;
Tracing images; More gradient tools like Illustrator (with pins); Creating patterns the easy way (like Illustrator) and add them as swatches (even in Photo); Isolation mode; Free transform / distort; More line types (like pattern line types); Import DWG/DXF/SKP; I know other freelance designers are really missing these functions in Affinity and keep them for switching completely, so please integrate these and I'm redeemed.
Thanks muchos in advance!
Pep
 

Hi Callum,
Thanks for your reply...Yes tried that, but it remains choppy and slow :(. Installed the newest drivers etc etc...but nothings seems to help. When document are getting a 'bit' complex it just slows down everything. Sliders and input fields (like size) are soooooo choppy and slow!!! Changed resolution etc etc....nothing works.
 
 

Dear Forum,
I really, really love the Affinity workflow but I still can't make the switch from Adobe. I really miss the pattern-make tool, warping in Designer and a trace function. But even when these functions are implemented there is one huge issue: S P E E D. When there are 'some' objects on the canvas Designer (and Photo and Publisher) becomes s   l   o   w. For instance, if I want to change the stroke width on one object it's fast, snappy and responsive, but when there are several objects (really non-complex) stroke adjustment becomes very very laggy (pretty annoying). This is such a pity!!! If this can be solved I'm over!
I'm working on a i7-8700k 3,7ghz, all ssd's and a GTX 1080 videocard. I also work with a Wacom Intuos Pro 2, but mouse movement shows the same sluggishness...:(
I'm I the only one who's having this problem???