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Hi, Just curious, is there any chance that Designer v2 will one day support the EXPORT of .dwg format? Thanks! Kelly

Apps: Designer Platforms: Windows, macOS and iPad Affinity Designer now supports both DWG and DXF export, available from both File->Export and the Export Persona. It's important to note that both these file formats are primarily concerned with vector outline data, with limited support for many of the features Affinity offers. However, it's been a heavily requested feature particularly as it means outlines created in Affinity can be easily exported and consumed in various CAD applications as well as utilities for things such as vinyl cutters, plotters and CNC tools. Because of this, as well as some of the other fundamental differences in the file formats such as layer structure, while both import and export of DWG is now available we do not consider this a format which is suitable to round trip in Affinity. Or put another way we would not recommend collaborating with an AutoCAD user on the same DWG file. Within export we do offer various options on how to deal with some of the unsupported features / differences in the file format: Layers All entities in DWG/DXF belong in a layer. There is always a default “Layer 0” in a valid DWG/DXF file. Affinity also has layers. This setting determines how Affinity layers are mapped to DWG layers, and therefore which DWG layer an exported item belong in Gradient Strokes Determines what to do with strokes with a gradient fill applied, which DWG does not support. Gradient Fills Determines what to do with fills with a gradient fill applied Bitmap Strokes Determines what to do with strokes with a bitmap fill applied, which DWG does not support: Bitmap Fills Determines what to do with fills with a bitmap fill applied, which DWG does not support: Pressure Strokes Determines what to do with strokes with a pressure profile applied, which DWG does not support: Overweight Strokes Determines what to do with strokes with a line weight > 2.11mm, which DWG does not support: Dashes Strokes Determines what to do with strokes with a dash pattern applied. DWG does support dash patterns; however DWG dashes do not scale automatically with line weight, as they do in Affinity. Scale dash patterns If any line weight adjustment is made to an exported curve (e.g. it is clamped to the 2.11mm maximum), you may expect the dashes to stay the same length, or you may prefer them to scale automatically as they do in Affinity. The former is similar to AutoCAD’s behaviour - when you change an entity’s line weight, it does not recompute the dashes, which is effectively the opposite of Affinity’s behaviour. If “Scale dash patterns” is on, Affinity’s behaviour is used, so dashes will be scaled down if the line weight had to be scaled down. Apply drawing scale When enabled, the drawing scale is honoured. If you export an rectangle that is 1 inch wide and your drawing scale is 1:10, the rectangle will be exported 10 inches wides. Note that Affinity documents support multiple drawing scales within the same document, which cannot be honoured in a DWG/DXF file, so only the first/common drawing scale is applied.

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?

Being able to import DXF files is great, but It's pretty useless without an export option... Hopefully this will be coming soon?

Dear is there any plan to export the generated images into DXF and/or DWG?

Super excited to bring in DXF!... but how to get them back out? Seems like a pointless new feature if you can not export it back out

It's great to see that there is now some compatibility with dxf/dwg formats. Any idea when Affinity Designer will be able to EXPORT dxf/dwg files? For us, this is really important and a massive frustrating. Indeed, it's been a massive frustration for *years*...

I know this is a really common request, so I'm just throwing my own vote into the mix.

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!