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[Chris Hardcastle]

Hi,

 

We develop for Autodesk (external) and have a tool that allows users to copy/paste svg into Maya. We've been getting requests from users to better support Affinity so we're testing it out but getting an issue we can't get our head round.

 

Our current workflow (or one of them at least) in Maya is based on the ability to copy SVG info out of e.g. Illustrator/web etc to your clipboard and then paste that directly into Maya (to create 3d geometry). I'm new to Affinity so maybe missing a workflow here but it seems this isn't possible? I've tried copying the clipboard from Affinity into a text editor but that doesn't seem to give any results.

 

What does seem to work is copy/pasting into Illustrator.

 

We also have an 'import svg' function which works fine from Affinity (i.e. File > Export > SVG) so a little in the dark about where the issue lies.

 

Can anyone shed any light on this? i.e. what is actually being copied to the clipboard?

 

Thanks,
Chris

[R C-R]

I don't know if this is something you might already have checked out, but there is an option in AD > Preferences > General to "Copy items as SVG." I assume this sets/changes what is copied to the clipboard & should be checked (not the default) if you want SVG info on the clipboard.

[Chris Hardcastle]

Duh, that was it!! Thanks so much.