Jesse Morris Posted February 23 Posted February 23 I'm using Affinity Designer 2.6.0 on MacOS. I have a document that when I copy and paste into or out of it (or copy its contents and do "new from clipboard"), the newly pasted objects are not necessarily the same size as they were in the original document. I have seen this a few times in the past but it does not happen consistently. In my most recent case, I created this cursed document by opening a DXF that was exported from Autodesk Fusion. Anything I copy/paste into it shows up 2x the size from the original document, and everything I paste out of it shows up 1/2 the size of the original document. I have another DXF from Autodesk Fusion (same version, and it's just a different sketch from the same file), that behaves correctly. If I paste from the second DXF into other documents, or use it to do new-from-clipboard, its scale is preserved correctly. Both show up as 72 DPI in the document properties. I've attached both of these, and saved them again as afdesign files, in case my import process is doing something weird and hard to reproduce - the resulting files behave for me the same as the original imported dxfs do. Bonus request: It would be really nice for "new from clipboard" to make a document with the same units and DPI as the original rather than just always resetting to pixels at 96DPI. DXF-With-Normal-Scaling.dxf DXF-With-Funny-Scaling.dxf DXF-With-Funny-Scaling.dxf.afdesign DXF-With-Normal-Scaling.dxf.afdesign Quote
Jesse Morris Posted February 23 Author Posted February 23 Okay I have learned something new about this. If I open one of the ones with funny scaling, and then go to document settings, and change just the units it rescales everything to be different dimensions. I should also say, the "funny scaling" box should be 11.5 inches tall, and the curve in the "funny scaling" one should be 10 inches tall. Quote
carl123 Posted February 24 Posted February 24 6 hours ago, Jesse Morris said: Anything I copy/paste into it shows up 2x the size from the original document, and everything I paste out of it shows up 1/2 the size of the original document. Probably related to this Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time.
Jesse Morris Posted February 24 Author Posted February 24 I didn't know about that! That certainly is relevant. Indeed if I change the units to millimeters and then back to inches (even without applying in between) that clears the scale (which then makes my design shrink by a factor of 2). Is that correct/expected behavior? I didn't know about this document settings tab so I don't really know what it's meant for or what behavior is appropriate for it. I wonder if this is some idiocy in how Fusion is exporting its DXFs or if it's a bug in how Affinity Designer is importing them. Quote
Staff NathanC Posted March 5 Staff Posted March 5 Hi @Jesse Morris, Importing DXF/DWG CAD files with a drawing scale is the expected behaviour, see the help article below for reference. Might be best to check with Autodesk on where this is set pre-export to DXF though if you're unsure. https://affinity.help/designer2/English.lproj/pages/GetStarted/importCAD.html Quote
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