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Hi Garry, thanks very much for the help, I have just done that and I will try it on the laser cutter next time I go to the hackspace where it is . Sorry about the delay in responding - work has been very busy. I will post how I got on. Thanks

Hi Callum, thanks for replying so quickly -I have attached an example drawing of the type of drawing I have the issue with where I have copy and pasted multi parts. I havent got the exact drawings that I had the problem as I was doing quite a few at the time . The same problem has happened to me before where the laser cutter will do several passes of some pieces and on the same drawing will do just one pass on a seperate area of the drawing, which is why I think it might have something to do with copy and pasting system. Thanks for having a look at this, Regards, John Drawing problem example.afdesign

Hi, I would like to ask for some advice on an issue Im having - I am currently creating some drawings for use in a laser cutter. I am craeting the drawings of multiple smallish pieces in Affinity Designer and there I have to do a fair amount of copying and pasting as I place multiple items onto a size of area that works for the laser cutter. Then I export as an SVG file, save to a folder, open with Inkscape and re - size to original size made in Affinity Designer as it always opens much larger in Inkscape than what it was drawn at before export, I then save as DXF file that then can be read by the laser cutters software. All that is doable and not too much hassle ( though it would be great if Affinity Designer had a feature to export or save as a dxf file directly ?? ), the problem I have is when it is read by the laser cutters software, it reads the copy and pasted shapes as more than one layer so the laser will do each shape in 2 or 3 complete passes when I only want to do one pass. I think it is reading the copied and pasted work and then making the extra passes. Please advise on how I can clear any unwanted layers and be reduced to just one layer to solve this issue. Any advice is very welcome Thanks, John

Hi Alfred, This attachment of example drawing that software been crashing on Thanks DRAWING EXAMPLE.afdesign

Thanks for the reply Alfred. New to these forums so bear with me please! Im working on a HP laptop with Intel core i3-5010U CPU @ 2.10 GHz 8 GB RAM 64 BIT OPERATING SYSTEM WINDOWS 8.1 I had already made another post earlier under PEN TOOL CRASHING and this is my reply to Sean who answered and Iv attached the example drwaing to this post as well Hi Sean, thanks for your reply, i have posted again on the forum before I saw this reply. I am saving more regularly through pain learning due to losing drawings but is difficult to remember all time when concentrating on technical design aspects. And I used serif drawplus for years and it never crashed on me so didnt need to save every few minutes in case the software crashed. I have attached a basic drawing example of the system of drawing my current project needs which is a lot of small straight line, modular with a lot of nodes . I will take your advice on keep transform and styles panels open instead of layers and hopefully this could be the cause of the crashing - I will try out. I have to have the nodes quite close to each other for the style of drawing but I think I have found that if I get to a certain amout of nodes in a line and then deselect and start a fresh line then this seems to stop the snapping timed out function occurring. Regards, John

Hi, Yes is the same but id not seen the reply from Sean to earlier message and iv replied to him now. Im just wriyting up a reply to Alfred who replied to this one. Im new to these Forums so getting used to how they work. Thanks

This crashing is driving me nuts!!! has anyone had much experience with Adobe Illustrator- does that crash as well sometimes? Im not that skilled with drawing software but I used to use Serif draw plus for years and never had a problem with it crashing. I like useing this AD software but I cant keep losing drawings and going to have to switch to some other software if I cant solve Any help to stop it please!!

thank you for your advice

Hi, I have just bought the Affinity drawing software package and really like the software so far. I am not that greaty skilled with software use but can get by for what I like to draw/ design for arts and craftwork and I would like to ask for some advice on transferring file formats please: I have previously been using an old version of serif drawplus that I bought some years back and I have a lot of drawings that I would like to be able to open in the affinity software. The old drawings are all in .dpp format which wont open easily with affinity and I would like to ask how and which format to change the old drawings to so I can open them in affinity software and not lose the abilty to use, edit, copy, paste etc as if they had been made in affinity . The drawings I then use in printed form and sometimes I have to transfer to a .dwg file for laser cutting. Also at the risk of sounding ignorant - I am probably missing the obvious - but I cant find a rubber tool in the new affinity software for when I need to select a line and rub part of it out or split a line in 2 to add another line into the design. Any advice/ help will be gratefully recieved! Regards, John