Caineandco Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 Hey guys, Just started out about a month ago using Affinity designer and been making some awesome progress with it so far! Having a bit of an advanced issue I’m hoping the forum can help me out with. I have a pattern made to be printed on letter size paper and taped together that I am trying to assemble in order to send to a laser cutter. The pattern has a dashed border for cut lines, and the shapes/lines extend outside of the border. I’m attempting to remove the border and everything outside of it in order to have only the inside shapes which would allow me to assemble at the right size. Attaching one page of the file in EPS as well as an image. Any idea how i can go about this? Thanks in advance! Anthony Cut help.eps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff NathanC Posted March 17, 2022 Staff Share Posted March 17, 2022 Hi @Caineandco welcome to the forums, One way to achieve this is to use a rectangle shape as a crop within the layer to remove the cut borders and anything outside of them. This can be achieved by drawing out a rectangle shape inside the cut lines and then offering the shape to the layer. See the attached document for this being applied. Cut help Cropped.afdesign iuli 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caineandco Posted March 17, 2022 Author Share Posted March 17, 2022 Thanks @NathanC! Exactly what I wanted to do Unfortunately still a bit new at this 🙃 is there any tutorial on how to achieve the same step by step? Or would it be a lot to explain? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caineandco Posted March 17, 2022 Author Share Posted March 17, 2022 Actually I think with multiple pages it would still snap to the lines outside of the layer though right? Any way to just delete? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff NathanC Posted March 17, 2022 Staff Share Posted March 17, 2022 Hi @Caineandco, 59 minutes ago, Caineandco said: Unfortunately still a bit new at this 🙃 is there any tutorial on how to achieve the same step by step? Or would it be a lot to explain? Attached is a quick video demonstrating how I did this without snapping on Mac, however the edges of the rectangle crop can be adjusted to the correct positioning after. Screen Recording 2022-03-17 at 11.40.43.mov 44 minutes ago, Caineandco said: Any way to just delete? You could delete and re-size curves to achieve this, but it may be a lengthy process. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caineandco Posted March 17, 2022 Author Share Posted March 17, 2022 Will give it another go this evening, thanks so much @NathanC!! NathanC 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DM1 Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 Not sure I understand what you are trying to do but if you just want to have an output without the trimmed areas visible, I.e actual size, have you tried the Crop tool? Use it to draw 4 rectangles around the unwanted area and export as svg. Quote M1 IPad Air 10.9/256GB lpadOS 17.1.1 Apple Pencil (2nd gen). Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Affinity Design 1.10.5 Affinity Publisher 2, Affinity Designer 2, Affinity Photo 2 and betas. Official Online iPad Help documents (multi-lingual) here: https://affinity.https://affinity.help/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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