OliverR Posted March 12, 2020 Posted March 12, 2020 Hello! I need svg files for my laser cutter. After export to svg (I have all settings tested) the size isn't the size I have made it. The same document I have open and export in Adobe Illustrator - it works - the size is right. What can I do? I doesn't work more with adobe. Quote
walt.farrell Posted March 12, 2020 Posted March 12, 2020 What size did you make it, and what size did you get? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.5, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.5
OliverR Posted March 12, 2020 Author Posted March 12, 2020 I export a object who is 100 x 100 millimeters. After open it is 477,8 x 416,7 millimeters. Quote
walt.farrell Posted March 12, 2020 Posted March 12, 2020 Thanks. And what is the DPI of your document? (Sorry; should have asked that, too.) Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.5, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.5
txrpls Posted March 13, 2020 Posted March 13, 2020 I am having a similar issue with my CNC plasma cutter.. I created a 22x22 inch artboad at 300 dpi and then created text on a path, converted to curves and exported as a SVG. When I bring it into my CAM program it is way too big. Quote
carl123 Posted March 13, 2020 Posted March 13, 2020 10 hours ago, OliverR said: I export a object who is 100 x 100 millimeters. After open it is 477,8 x 416,7 millimeters. 300(DPI) / 72(DPI) = 4.167 which accounts for your second figure (416.7mm) But not sure where the 477.8mm is coming from Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time.
firstdefence Posted March 13, 2020 Posted March 13, 2020 Don't you have to uncheck the viewbox option under the More... settings when exporting to get actual size? I think it's because the viewbox is set to 100% worth a try though. R C-R 1 Quote iMac 27" 2019 Sequoia 15.0 (24A335), iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions
Staff DWright Posted March 13, 2020 Staff Posted March 13, 2020 As @firstdefence mentioned turn off the viewbox option and set the export DPI to 72 as this will not affect the quality as it is a vector image. Quote
txrpls Posted March 14, 2020 Posted March 14, 2020 I have tried many of the setting and export to SVG and I am getting either too big or too small. I set up a 22" x 22" document which matches my metal size. My CNC software is set up for inches and designer is setup for inches. If I knew what native units affinity works in, I could calculate a scale factor. Quote
walt.farrell Posted March 14, 2020 Posted March 14, 2020 2 hours ago, txrpls said: I have tried many of the setting and export to SVG and I am getting either too big or too small. I set up a 22" x 22" document which matches my metal size. My CNC software is set up for inches and designer is setup for inches. If I knew what native units affinity works in, I could calculate a scale factor. If you set your document DPI to 72 and turn off the viewbox option on export it should work. If it doesn't, can you provide a sample .afdesign document that doesn't work so we can check it? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.5, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.5
yann2 Posted March 27, 2020 Posted March 27, 2020 Hi, Here is a sample file with a circle radius 50mm and a square 20mm per side. Export svg at 72 dpi, viewbox option turned off. Then file is open Rhino 3D, circle is radius 141.733mm and square side is 56.693mm. The other way round is fine, from Rhino 3D to Affinity designer the scale is kept. Any idea? Thanks Sans titre.afdesign Quote
Beard and Geared Posted January 24, 2021 Posted January 24, 2021 I'm also having this issue. If I have something of a certain width in mm or inches in Designer, it imports in other programs at a different size. This is a huge issue when I'm trying to get accurate cuts on a laser. To get close, I'm just doing what one of the people above alluded to. E.g., I have a design that's 20 inches wide. Everything else (Inkscape, Lighburn) imports it as 15 inches wide. 15/20 = 0.75. 72dpi/0.75 = 96dpi. So when I export from Designer I have to change it from 72 to 96 dpi. This seemed to get me close to the right number (it's a couple decimal places off still when I import). Quote
Jowday Posted January 24, 2021 Posted January 24, 2021 On 3/12/2020 at 8:15 PM, OliverR said: Hello! I need svg files for my laser cutter. After export to svg (I have all settings tested) the size isn't the size I have made it. The same document I have open and export in Adobe Illustrator - it works - the size is right. What can I do? I doesn't work more with adobe. Made a quick test: Made drawing (web sized document in Designer: 800 x 600 pixels @400 DPI) Exported it and got this mismatching SVG code: <svg width="100%" height="100%" viewBox="0 0 600 450" Exported it after adjusting MORE: DPI (that was configured to 300 DPI) to 400 DPI and got correct SVG code: <svg width="100%" height="100%" viewBox="0 0 800 600" Or illustrated with pictures: Export - make sure document DPI is the same as in export DPI: Quote "The user interface is supposed to work for me - I am not supposed to work for the user interface." Computer-, operating system- and software agnostic; I am a result oriented professional. Look for a fanboy somewhere else. “When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.” ― Confucius Not an Affinity user og forum user anymore. The software continued to disappoint and not deliver.
Ken__ Posted January 27, 2021 Posted January 27, 2021 I also am having this craziness happening when exporting to SVG. In my case, the export of a particular important file is shrinking everything by 25%. I have tried setting the export DPI to 72, 96, and 300, with the view box option turned off, and every time the objects in the exported SVG are shrunk by 25%. Example: a rectangle that is 8 inches in Designer is 6 inches after SVG export. This is pretty weird. I don't mean to suggest a fix — that's up to your wisdom — but something very randomly buggy is going on, given how the errors are all over the place in this discussion. Quote
flossqueen Posted February 7, 2021 Posted February 7, 2021 I'm having a similar problem to this with the iPad version, even on 1.9. My preset for the document is the size of my laser bed, dpi is 96 as that is what both my Glowforge interface expects as well as Lightburn. When I create a 2” square and export using Document Properties when I open in Lightburn it’s always way bigger. If I export and manually set the dpi to 96 it appears to work, at least for Lightburn. So it’s ignoring the document dpi when exporting. No matter how I set dpi it will not come 8nto the iOS version of Adobe Illustrator at the correct size. Even turning off preview doesn’t help there. How do I set the default dpi to 96 on the iPad version from 300 to 96? IT would make life simpler if it don’t have to change it every single export. Quote
Zachary Parker Posted June 4, 2021 Posted June 4, 2021 Hey guys, i am trying to export a simple black and white logo from the app to my ipad as an svg. Every time i export it either blacks out the image or totally changes the text or warps the image. If i save it as a PNG its fine but as an SVG everything gets messed up Quote
nitro912gr Posted December 24, 2022 Posted December 24, 2022 On 1/27/2021 at 10:47 AM, BofG said: Designer makes terrible SVG files. Take for example the most simple file possible: Default SVG "for export" gives: As you can see highlighted the width and height of the square are different!! It's using a matrix transform to alter the relative scale of the width/height so that those different values result in the same height and width. Positioning is done through this transform also rather than the rect having an x/y. Thankfully, there is an option to 'flatten transforms' which gives much more sensible code. Combine this with not including the viewbox, and exporting to 96dpi* should give the correct results: The document: SVG export settings: The SVG in InkScape: If you are getting the wrong size out, all you need to change is the dpi in the export box - as per the SVG spec it's up to the reading program to determine the scale (when the units are not specified, which is the case with the exports from Affinity), some make different assumptions about this. holycrap that worked... thank you. Affinity should have this default by now.. I'm tired that every time I want to engrave/cut something I have to open in inkscape (that is a hellscape to use) and change the dimensions there and re-save the file. Quote Current Workstation: Mac Mini M4 Base. 10Core 16GB/256GB. MacOS 15.4 and WinPC - CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5500 - MOBO: Asus B450 - RAM: 2x 8GB DDR4 2667Mhz - GPU: AMD Radeon 7790 1GB NVMe SSD: Crusial P3 1TB M.2 - SSD: Samsung Evo 850 256GB - PSU: XFX TS450 - OS: Win10 Polyhedron.gr studio48.gr
v_kyr Posted December 24, 2022 Posted December 24, 2022 The manual way of editing SVG code, in order to remove a SVG transform matrix, is very well described here ... Removing transform translate from an svg code nitro912gr 1 Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2
nitro912gr Posted December 24, 2022 Posted December 24, 2022 false happiness. the GRBL program still dont like those SVG, although inkscape open them ok and then with a simple copy paste to a new file and resave it works... weird. Quote Current Workstation: Mac Mini M4 Base. 10Core 16GB/256GB. MacOS 15.4 and WinPC - CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5500 - MOBO: Asus B450 - RAM: 2x 8GB DDR4 2667Mhz - GPU: AMD Radeon 7790 1GB NVMe SSD: Crusial P3 1TB M.2 - SSD: Samsung Evo 850 256GB - PSU: XFX TS450 - OS: Win10 Polyhedron.gr studio48.gr
InfiniteNumber Posted September 6, 2024 Posted September 6, 2024 Four years later and this is still a problem in Affinity Designer 2. I almost bought a copy for a friend who doesn't have Adobe Illustrator, and thankfully before I did, I discovered this bug which makes Affinity no-go for her. We shouldn't have to be editing SVG code and googling esoteric settings to get a vector export to work as intended (the export dialog is capable of providing export tips or information like other programs do). I've only searched through the forums a few times, and there seems to be issues that persist for long periods, so, definitely holding off getting myself a copy as well... (still using the last standalone version of Illustrator CS6 bought during my undergrad). ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Quote
daBernd Posted November 11, 2024 Posted November 11, 2024 On 9/6/2024 at 8:51 AM, InfiniteNumber said: Four years later and this is still a problem in Affinity Designer 2. I almost bought a copy for a friend who doesn't have Adobe Illustrator, and thankfully before I did, I discovered this bug which makes Affinity no-go for her. We shouldn't have to be editing SVG code and googling esoteric settings to get a vector export to work as intended (the export dialog is capable of providing export tips or information like other programs do). I've only searched through the forums a few times, and there seems to be issues that persist for long periods, so, definitely holding off getting myself a copy as well... (still using the last standalone version of Illustrator CS6 bought during my undergrad). ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ It is still not working. Document size in Affinity Designer is 415mm x 200mm. Size in LaserGRBL is 307 x 148 ... I set the Document to 72DPI. It is worse when you try to work with an ArtWork ... this is even more weird! 4 years - no progress - even InkScape is capable of doing it right. Quote
Hangman Posted November 11, 2024 Posted November 11, 2024 Hi @daBernd and welcome to the forums, Try changing your Affinity Designer document to 96 dpi making sure your artwork is still sized at 415 mm x 200 mm. Note that your canvas is larger than your artwork so you may want to make your canvas the same size as the artwork or select all layers in the layers panel and choose Nur Auswahl (Selection Only) from the Area dropdown in the SVG export window. In the SVG Export, Advanced Settings select DPI verwenden instead of Dokumentauflösung verwenden and manually enter 96 for the dpi value then re-export your file and see whether or not it comes into LaserGRBL at the correct size... Either way, let us know... Quote Affinity Designer 2.6.3 | Affinity Photo 2.6.3 | Affinity Publisher 2.6.3 MacBook Pro M3 Max, 36 GB Unified Memory, macOS Sonoma 14.6.1, Magic Mouse HP ENVY x360, 8 GB RAM, AMD Ryzen 5 2500U, Windows 10 Home, Logitech Mouse
netty.theframfour Posted January 14 Posted January 14 I have seen the above ‘solution’ posted several times to the forum and never anyone saying it has worked for them. It certainly doesn’t for me with my Cricut. There is a clear four year long problem with SVG export size using affinity designer which sadly makes it an unviable alternative to Adobe for those of us who create designs for cutting machines. This is really disappointing as many use cutting machines for business, an expanding market, and do not want to use an inconvenient ‘work around’ Come on affinity, many of us have switched from Adobe not expecting such a basic issue which has been going on for an unacceptable period of time. I wish I had discovered this problem earlier, yes I have joined the forums to air my grievance, I am really upset and disappointed that I have spent my money and hours of time on an unresolved issue. Quote
Hangman Posted January 14 Posted January 14 Hi @netty.theframfour and welcome to the forums, For your Cricut Machine, try the following... Set your document to 72 dpi. When you export your SVG file uncheck Set Viewbox at the bottom of the Advanced section in the export window, ensure the export resolution is 72 dpi or set Use Document Resolution and you should find your SVG file comes into Cricut Design Space at the correct size... Note: Depending on how you've set your document up you may need to select all layers in the Layers panel and set Area to Selection Only in the export window... Let us know if that works... Quote Affinity Designer 2.6.3 | Affinity Photo 2.6.3 | Affinity Publisher 2.6.3 MacBook Pro M3 Max, 36 GB Unified Memory, macOS Sonoma 14.6.1, Magic Mouse HP ENVY x360, 8 GB RAM, AMD Ryzen 5 2500U, Windows 10 Home, Logitech Mouse
netty.theframfour Posted January 14 Posted January 14 Thank you Hangman, I feel pretty silly about my rant now as I managed to find a solution immediately after posting and came back here to update: However, finding a solution for this shouldn't be that difficult. It wasn't until I created a document from fresh with a DPI of 72 (rather than changing the DPI of the document I was working on) that the sizing came out correctly on Cricut design space 🙂 Hangman 1 Quote
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