penwiper Posted December 26, 2014 Share Posted December 26, 2014 Hello, I just want to say that I love Affinity Designer and learning vector design with it seems quite easy. (While at college I opened up Illustrator several times and ended up hopelessly lost despite a fairly solid knowlege of Photoshop itself, but then I never took a Graphics Design course either and that probably would have helped...) I especially enjoy working with your shapes and making interesting patterns! The reason I am asking for dxf file exporting is because my sister has a paper cutting machine (similar to the Silhouette Cameo) which uses those files to automatically cut shapes. So theoretically it would be super quick to transfer said file to her and then cut a bunch of designs into cardstock or other materials to make easy stencils. I realize this is a bit of a niche request. :-) She told me it would be a bit of a hassle trying to export an svg file into dxf. Since I've never done it before I have no idea. . . Another feature request while I'm at it: maybe a spiral shape, tweakable in multiple amazing ways? Thank you guys for all your work, you rock! Also I have been studying your zine from corner to corner and it's been a lot of help for an image I'm working on from my sketchbook which may be hopelessly advanced for me but oh well, it's worth a try. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted December 27, 2014 Staff Share Posted December 27, 2014 Hi penwiper, Currently Affinity doesn't offer DXF support, but its being considered for an upgrade later. Regarding the spiral shape request, Ben (the developer responsible for the shapes) is the most suited person to give you an answer. I'm sure he will step in as soon as he sees this thread. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Ben Posted January 6, 2015 Staff Share Posted January 6, 2015 I was thinking about a spiral shape a while ago. Maybe when I get some time. Quote SerifLabs team - Affinity Developer Software engineer - Photographer - Guitarist - Philosopher iMac 27" Retina 5K (Late 2015), 4.0GHz i7, AMD Radeon R9 M395 MacBook (Early 2015), 1.3GHz Core M, Intel HD 5300 iPad Pro 10.5", 256GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronnyb Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 Illustrator's spirals suck. I always handbiuilt mine... A Spiral Shape would be great, and so would a user adjustable French curve Shape... katcof123 1 Quote 2021 16” Macbook Pro w/ M1 Max 10c cpu /24c gpu, 32 GB RAM, 1TB SSD, Sonoma 14.4.1 2018 11" iPad Pro w/ A12X cpu/gpu, 256 GB, iPadOS 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrograde Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 Yes illustrators spiral "shape" is pretty basic with no way to adjust it other than size. I imagine an Affinity Designer spiral would have some options to control size, space in between lines, flip, start and end points etc... katcof123 1 Quote http://www.kevincreative.com https://www.behance.net/kevincreative https://dribbble.com/kevincreative https://www.instagram.com/kevincreative/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronnyb Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 Yes.... I would love it if AD would give us easy access to natural/organic grids and page divisions using different ratios like phi, π, tri, hex, pent, and other scales based on nature's geometries.... Quote 2021 16” Macbook Pro w/ M1 Max 10c cpu /24c gpu, 32 GB RAM, 1TB SSD, Sonoma 14.4.1 2018 11" iPad Pro w/ A12X cpu/gpu, 256 GB, iPadOS 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Ben Posted January 28, 2015 Staff Share Posted January 28, 2015 That stuff is coming soon. And I've already included constants for Phi, pi and others in our expression parsing, so you can specify positions or sizes as a ratio of those values. Quote SerifLabs team - Affinity Developer Software engineer - Photographer - Guitarist - Philosopher iMac 27" Retina 5K (Late 2015), 4.0GHz i7, AMD Radeon R9 M395 MacBook (Early 2015), 1.3GHz Core M, Intel HD 5300 iPad Pro 10.5", 256GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronnyb Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 Oh man, that's exciting to hear! I guess I gotta read up on the documentation... Is there a specific section to look at @Ben regarding theses constants? Quote 2021 16” Macbook Pro w/ M1 Max 10c cpu /24c gpu, 32 GB RAM, 1TB SSD, Sonoma 14.4.1 2018 11" iPad Pro w/ A12X cpu/gpu, 256 GB, iPadOS 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Ben Posted January 29, 2015 Staff Share Posted January 29, 2015 Not yet... the expression parsing is a little involved so it does need to be documented. There have been a couple of threads on the forum about it. My dream is that one day we'll have context assistance when you enter values into an expression aware edit box. The main reason being that the constants available (and their names) depend on context of what you are editing. I'll have a word with the documentation guys about getting something done for expressions. Quote SerifLabs team - Affinity Developer Software engineer - Photographer - Guitarist - Philosopher iMac 27" Retina 5K (Late 2015), 4.0GHz i7, AMD Radeon R9 M395 MacBook (Early 2015), 1.3GHz Core M, Intel HD 5300 iPad Pro 10.5", 256GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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