Linked DWG/DXF update issue

[Asteward]

I have been trying to work with linked DWG/DXF files in an Affinity Publisher (v.2) document. I place the file and select a specific sheet. When I modify the drawing (and save it), I am prompted to update the file in the resource manager, when I do all the instances switch from the sheet, I specified to the model space view of the DWG. Is there a solution of this issue? 

This issue is also pressent in Affinity Designer (v.2)

 

Thank you

Edited January 26, 2023 by Asteward

[Tim France]

Hi @Asteward,

Welcome to the forums.

I've taken a look and I can confirm that it's a bug and has now been fixed for the next version.  Thanks for reporting it.

Regards,

Tim

[Asteward]

Thank you for resolving the above issue.

A further and similar issue has occured. When a linked Affinity Design file instance is refreshed all layers turn on. This means I need to go back and select the layers I want visible for each instance of the newly updated file.

 

Thank you

[Tim France]

Hi @Asteward,

Can you confirm which version of the software you are running?

[Asteward]

Hi @Tim France,

I am using 2.0.4 for both Affitiy Designer and Pubisher.

I Commented on another topic about being blocked from opening a Publisher file with the message "File contains features from a future version" for context our office have a NAS server where all our work is stored. This issue apeared when I updated from 2.03 to 2.0.4. appologies if this is off topic, but I thought it might shed light on the issues I have been having, re linked files.

[Dan C]

Hi @Asteward,

Thanks for your report and our sincerest apologies for the delayed response here. We are exceptionally busy following the release of V2 and we thank you for your continued patience and understanding here.

On 1/31/2023 at 11:24 AM, Asteward said:

When a linked Affinity Design file instance is refreshed all layers turn on. This means I need to go back and select the layers I want visible for each instance of the newly updated file

I'm not seeing the same behaviour here currently - I created a document in Designer with 6 rectangles, then hid 3 of them and saved this document. I then created a new file in Publisher, preferring linked files, and placed the .afdesign file.

Following this, I reopened the file within Designer externally and updated the colour of one of these visible rectangles. I saved and closed the document in Designer and switched back to Publisher - the external change had been detected and the file was updated within Publisher to include this new colour - but the 3 hidden layers remained disabled as expected.

Can you please expand on your workflow that shows this issue, or provide a screen recording of these steps for me?

On 1/31/2023 at 12:23 PM, Asteward said:

I Commented on another topic about being blocked from opening a Publisher file with the message "File contains features from a future version" for context our office have a NAS server where all our work is stored. This issue apeared when I updated from 2.03 to 2.0.4. appologies if this is off topic, but I thought it might shed light on the issues I have been having, re linked files.

Thanks for letting us know and I'm certainly sorry to hear this happened with your file.

I have checked our development log regarding your file and I can confirm that it does appear related to one of your linked files, specifically "490-D-04-G.afdesign" (I have the full file path, if necessary, but did not wish to share this publicly without your permission) - our developers noted that it appears as though this file has potentially become corrupted, which may also explain the above behaviour reported.

Our team have implemented changed for the next update to better handle this issue in the future, such that this error message should no longer appear with your file.

I hope this helps!

[Asteward]

Please see attached some screenshots demostrating the issue. The linked designer file instances have been place and then some of the layers have been turned off (via the drop down in publisher, highlighted in red). On making an edit to the original designer file (changing text colour in "Layer 3" to red, and saving the file) all layers turn back on in all instances in publisher. Appologies for the lack of clarity in the earler post.

Thank you for your help 

[Old Bruce]

This is expected behaviour. Changing the on/off state of a layer in Publisher then working on the file in Designer and saving it will mean that all three layers will be on when the file is updated in Publisher. If you added a fourth layer in Designer and had it turned off, then the updated file in Publisher would show the turned off fourth layer.

[bmscmoreira]

This just happened to me, using latest version (2.5.7):

- I have one dwg with 100 layouts;

- I linked the dwg to 100 placeholders in Affinity Publisher, each a specific layout;

- I added a hatch in model space in my DWG;

- all my linked layouts in Affinity Publisher lost their position reverting to one layout (i.e. all 100 layouts became the same).

I have to re-do all work now...

 

edit: maybe it was a glitch, Affinity got super laggy on the resource manager windows. Did a reboot and tried it again and the problem did not happen again.