Randallrbaker Posted November 27, 2022 Share Posted November 27, 2022 Good day, so im working with a complex shape in afinity designer that I'm going to be sending off to a 3rd party company to have cut out onto copper sheets. The shape is called metatron's cube. (See attached image.) It has lines all over the design and the company isn't able to work with this file because it doesnt contain auctual shaped geometry. I played around with it myself ( See attached image) and I was able to get it close to how they would need it for their machine, but the part im now stuck at is getting the rest of the lines to look like the image I made. What I was able to do on my own is select every circle and turn them into a donut shape then make the hole 90%. I then duplicated the smaller hexagon in the center and shrunk it then subtracted it from the bigger hexagon. I did that to both the center and outer hexagons in the image and then I Sellected everything and hit the add button in the top right corner so that it created the shape in the image. Here are my questions I currently have. How to I make the distance between the hexagons the same distance as the circle that has a dognut hole of 90% I need to make sure that when their machine cuts it all out that all the line thickness is exactly the same. My next question is how do I make the rest of the lines look how I made this shape so far? I know I'm making progress, but I've hit a brick wall. Thanks in advance, Randallrbaker Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted November 27, 2022 Share Posted November 27, 2022 @Randallrbaker Welcome to the forum. Do you mean something like this? Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randallrbaker Posted November 27, 2022 Author Share Posted November 27, 2022 I need something exactly 1000 % like this. Can you explain to me how you did it so quickly? I must learn and absorb your knowledge! Thanks in advance, Randallrbaker Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randallrbaker Posted November 27, 2022 Author Share Posted November 27, 2022 I bought the file on etsy so I have the original file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted November 27, 2022 Share Posted November 27, 2022 I have an Metatron SVG broken down into lines and circles. I selected all of the lines and circles Set a stroke of 4pt Used Layer > Expand Stroke Used Geometry: Add and flipped the fill to a stroke on the Colour Panel. Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randallrbaker Posted November 27, 2022 Author Share Posted November 27, 2022 I have more files to do such as flower of life wilbthis work with those too I'm assuming it should 😁 Thanks, Randallrbaker Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted November 27, 2022 Share Posted November 27, 2022 Yes, it should do. Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randallrbaker Posted November 27, 2022 Author Share Posted November 27, 2022 I'm not at home right now but I will try it and let you know how it worked in about an hour. thanks so much you have no idea how much you helped me!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted November 27, 2022 Share Posted November 27, 2022 Just had a go with the flower of life Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randallrbaker Posted November 27, 2022 Author Share Posted November 27, 2022 How to I set a stroke? Do I go to curve tool? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randallrbaker Posted November 27, 2022 Author Share Posted November 27, 2022 I think I figured it out how awesome thanks 😊 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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