newb question: transparent shape on Affinity Design appears as opaque when SVG file opened in Cricut

[sabletedd]

Hi,

Newb question here.

I've created a transparent shape (no fill) with a border. When exported to SVG and opened in Cricut Design Space, the shape appears filled in (opaque).

I've ensured that rasterize: nothing is selected when exported.

Any tips of wisdom you can offer me?

Thanks

[Chul]

Hi,

Can you show a snip of what export settings you're using?

Also is your document background set to transparent?

 

 

[sabletedd]

Chul, thanks for your response. Here is the screenshot of my export settings

I've tried setting the background as transparent

However, when I opened the file with Cricut it appears as opaque, whereas my image has a black border only.

I've moved this rectangular layer to the bottom and set the opacity to 0% but still does not seem to work. Essentially, I need the rectangular border, but the inside transparent.

[v_kyr]

Attach your by ADe generated SVG file here in a post for inspection.

[Chul]

On 7/23/2023 at 7:19 PM, sabletedd said:

Chul, thanks for your response. Here is the screenshot of my export settings

I've tried setting the background as transparent

However, when I opened the file with Cricut it appears as opaque, whereas my image has a black border only.

I've moved this rectangular layer to the bottom and set the opacity to 0% but still does not seem to work. Essentially, I need the rectangular border, but the inside transparent.

@sabletedd, thanks for the posted screenshots! Going only by those it looks like it should all be good; I tried the same steps and all myself and when I uploaded to Cricut Design it worked like it was supposed to. Is there any way you could upload your Affinity file so we can have a better idea of what's going on? Not sure what to tell you otherwise. Although I had some problem that Cricut Design was somehow messing up my svg files no matter how I exported so I switched to using a png file instead which worked great.