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Good example. The old panel is twice as clear even at half the size. The new icons just merge into each other.
They've gone for aesthetic over practicality, imo.

Good example. The old panel is twice as clear even at half the size. The new icons just merge into each other.
They've gone for aesthetic over practicality, imo.

Good example. The old panel is twice as clear even at half the size. The new icons just merge into each other.
They've gone for aesthetic over practicality, imo.

MISSING for me.
Designer - Trace tool is key. 99% of my Illustrator work and a big reason why I'm still in Adobe land is Tracing my bitmapped art drawn in Sketchbook on iPad.
Photos - High res when you make a photo higher res. In other words smoothing like Photoshop.  Smart select is about 50% useful in Photoshop. Sky selector I've used once for a cover of a magazine and it was good. 
Publisher - What can I say. It still reminds me of SwiftPublisher or some other $9 app.  YES it's way way better than those.  But it's just not as refined as InDesign.  I'd like to move some pallets around and make it more like my InDesign placements.  I use the character pallet a lot with horizontal scale for text so things fit easily and this feature in InDesign is up top, Publisher is on a side pallet. Not bad.. I feel like I'm whining and could get used to it.  I've just started looking at it and forget what other things I didn't like in Publisher 1 that made me stick to Adobe. 

yo los prefiero con esos detalles en azul.
 

Those new icons, I agree it's better for most of them. But not the stoke panel ones, imho.

Everything in the new UI is less defined and I think it's a step back from version 1. They haven't ruined it or anything it just looks less sharp and crisp.
Navigating and clicking just feels less satisfying without the clear visual feedback.

I work in Engineering and have to manipulate multiple layer (1000+) pdf drawings every day.
The latest update is an absolute dream. AD just eats the pdf for breakfast.
Thank-you so much whoever worked on this and whoever pushed the feature forward. 😗

I work in Engineering and have to manipulate multiple layer (1000+) pdf drawings every day.
The latest update is an absolute dream. AD just eats the pdf for breakfast.
Thank-you so much whoever worked on this and whoever pushed the feature forward. 😗

I work in Engineering and have to manipulate multiple layer (1000+) pdf drawings every day.
The latest update is an absolute dream. AD just eats the pdf for breakfast.
Thank-you so much whoever worked on this and whoever pushed the feature forward. 😗

I work in Engineering and have to manipulate multiple layer (1000+) pdf drawings every day.
The latest update is an absolute dream. AD just eats the pdf for breakfast.
Thank-you so much whoever worked on this and whoever pushed the feature forward. 😗

I work in Engineering and have to manipulate multiple layer (1000+) pdf drawings every day.
The latest update is an absolute dream. AD just eats the pdf for breakfast.
Thank-you so much whoever worked on this and whoever pushed the feature forward. 😗

I work in Engineering and have to manipulate multiple layer (1000+) pdf drawings every day.
The latest update is an absolute dream. AD just eats the pdf for breakfast.
Thank-you so much whoever worked on this and whoever pushed the feature forward. 😗

I work in Engineering and have to manipulate multiple layer (1000+) pdf drawings every day.
The latest update is an absolute dream. AD just eats the pdf for breakfast.
Thank-you so much whoever worked on this and whoever pushed the feature forward. 😗

I work in Engineering and have to manipulate multiple layer (1000+) pdf drawings every day.
The latest update is an absolute dream. AD just eats the pdf for breakfast.
Thank-you so much whoever worked on this and whoever pushed the feature forward. 😗

I work in Engineering and have to manipulate multiple layer (1000+) pdf drawings every day.
The latest update is an absolute dream. AD just eats the pdf for breakfast.
Thank-you so much whoever worked on this and whoever pushed the feature forward. 😗

I work in Engineering and have to manipulate multiple layer (1000+) pdf drawings every day.
The latest update is an absolute dream. AD just eats the pdf for breakfast.
Thank-you so much whoever worked on this and whoever pushed the feature forward. 😗

Yes, that is excellent!
Would be nice to see in future the arrowhead react to the isometric grid as well.
Thanks, Dan. 😀

In Illustrator you could change a line into a zig-zag or wavy line. You could change the number of segments and ridge size and shape
 
Is there an equivalnet or what would be the best way to do this in AD?
 
I'm trying to create an effect for a thread on a bolt.

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

Yep, we need this imported asap to fully go to the affinity package! We are designers and use a lasercutter. Client give us dwg or dxf and we need to export as dxf for the laser cutter software.
We now use illustrator cs2 (2005 software!!!!!) to import the files, then we copy everything and paste it in affinity to do stuff with it. Afterwards, we copy it back again to illustrator to export everything lol...
(luckely copy pasting works fine between software, everything stays the same).
The idea alone is just ridiculous lol. The market potential with adding this is just insane; packaging designers, CAD designers, architects, ...
They can't implement it or are in a way legally forced to not implement it or something like that. No way that they can do it, but just postpone it. That's just not possible.

I need to get DXF vector data into AD. I do so using various workarounds involving conversions in one or another app to PDF or SVG.  AD does not do well importing SVG, so PDF is most useful. All of this could be alleviated with direct AD support for DXF. It is  disappointing that a product that seems to do so well in so many areas seems weak on import/export. Anyway, another vote for adding native DXF support.

They are shooting themselves in the foot, and their clients to. They would sell more copies and have more satisfied customers. They could access a huge market (architects, designers, manufacturers).
Noone asks for Designer to be a CAD software. But only to be able to import CAD data.

It's definitely edited.
Just need to get this through their head. I do not want to be their backseat driver.... but If I see them making a wrong turn on a one way street, I'm definitely going to say something about it.
What is so mind boggling, is that the actual integration of this is not something that would take more than 1-2 days to implement, and maybe 4-5 days of testing.
I know this because I am very familiar with the OpenDXF/DWG libraries, I have them already compiled into a process that checks my folder now to see if any svg files are saved, and once any svg file hits the folder it automatically has the dxf version of it with the same name next to it. It does an excellent job in automatically converting it to it's exact ratios and dimensions, when opened in AutoCAD its recognized as a native format and all elements are still there with their native shapes and object types and layers and grouping. And it didn't take longer than 1 hour to fully understand the deserialization of the vector format and use the DXF libraries to serialize them back into a perfect DXF format, and create a FS listener to check for files and apply this method to them.
In addition to my donation, I would even offer the development time to do it myself for them, but they do not have a public plugin system nor would they share their closed course code, so that is why I'm just asking nicely for them to do it. It really is a frustrating situation when you are at the mercy  of someone else because you  need to play by their rules, but then their rules are having a negative impact on your lifestyle.
They have a lot of priorities yes, but they do not understand the impact of this particular feature. Like really. If they know the truth, then I have no doubt in my mind that they would actually drop every single thing they are doing and put all their developers on this item and this item only.

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.