William11 Posted August 15, 2024 Posted August 15, 2024 Hello, we are manufacturing tents. I make printing templates in AutoCAD 2024 LT and next need to work with the template in Afinity Designer 2 (MacOS). I tried 2 ways but neither of them lead to a satisfaction. 1. Save the template as .DXF in CAD and open it in AD2. Up to paper size roughly 1500 x 1000 mm it's OK. Above such paper dimensions, the dimensions of the template change and the template is not in needed scale. It looks like AD2 may have problem with importing bigger papers than A0 in DXF. 2. Exported the template into .PDF in CAD. Opened by AD2. In that case, dimensions are fine but the polylines are exploded to segments so can not be used for masking. When I try to join the segments it's wrongly connected. There are created some additional lines or the order of connection is not correct. I've been fighting with it for months already. May anyone help please? I tried some experts with no real result. Thank you
GarryP Posted August 20, 2024 Posted August 20, 2024 Welcome to the forums @William11 It will be tricky for anyone to figure out what the problem is without being able to experiment with the files. If you can upload the DXF and PDF that you exported, preferably with the original AutoCAD file, then we can try things for ourselves and see what happens. If you don’t want to share the files in public, which is understandable if they are commercially sensitive, then you will need to request a DropBox location from a member of staff who can look at them privately. If you can also share screenshots showing the AutoCAD export settings for both the DXF and PDF exports then that would give us more information.
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