Hello,
I have been using affinity designer for leather craft pattern design and 90% of the time it works a treat. Occasionally I get boolean issues on more complex shapes and have found a way to work around it. Tonight I'm on a deadline and can't seem to fix the issue I'm having and it's frustrating that I may have to start over, especially on something that is rather simple. I'm hoping to get some insight into this so that I can avoid these types of problems in the future.
Everything on the design looked good as I was sending it over to the laser cutter - then the Glowforge gave me an error message regarding "unfilled shapes". I opened my affinity source file and filled in each of the pattern shapes with a solid to try and troubleshoot and then saw what the laser cutter must have been referring to. If you look at the screenshots there are stitch holes that should have subtracted out with the Boolean function that did not. Instead we have the stitch holes in some parts included with the shape with editable nodes inside but not subtracted from the base shape. The stitch holes were simply a dashed stroke that was converted to an expanded stroke/curve and subtracted from the base shapes. It's something I do on a regular basis that normally works. Every once in a while this happens and I feel like it's a software bug.
Is there anything I can do to fix this as I don't want to start over again as there was a ton of physical measuring involved with creating this pattern. I know I can trace back over my shapes here but this isn't something I should have to deal with especially when the clocks running down.
Thanks for taking a look!
