wsm Posted May 3, 2019 Share Posted May 3, 2019 +1 for DXF support. For workflows where I'm exporting drawings out of Fusion360/AutoCAD to laser cut, this is essential. Inkscape doesn't work well on a Mac, and I was ready to go all in with Affinity... but this is holding me back. I can see myself either going with Corel, or virtualizing Windows to use Inkscape, but my future with Affinity's not looking too bright with the current roadmap/dev priorities. fjulian79 and Diller 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fjulian79 Posted May 5, 2019 Share Posted May 5, 2019 As said before .. im shure there will be special offers from Corel .. hopefully also for Mac. Let's see what happens first! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicolasbulb Posted May 6, 2019 Share Posted May 6, 2019 +1 for DWG support + add some measurement tools for simple CAD. The idea would be to have some simple scale conversion in order to make the DWG import useful Diller and bgspa 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lukepighetti Posted May 14, 2019 Share Posted May 14, 2019 This is clearly very popular. What's the hold up? I also need this. Diller 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted May 14, 2019 Share Posted May 14, 2019 37 minutes ago, lukepighetti said: This is clearly very popular. What's the hold up? I also need this. Programming resources. Affinity Publisher being readied and the others being made compatible, perhaps? And there are other much longer request threads than this one as well. And they too are clearly very popular. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lukepighetti Posted May 14, 2019 Share Posted May 14, 2019 Off topic but I wish Designer were like $3 a month and they dedicated more resources towards features. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron Martin Posted May 15, 2019 Share Posted May 15, 2019 22 hours ago, lukepighetti said: Off topic but I wish Designer were like $3 a month and they dedicated more resources towards features. Couldn’t disagree more. I understand the frustrations with late feature updates but I believe this way of pricing is one of their selling points. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milere Posted July 23, 2019 Share Posted July 23, 2019 +1 to DWG support. I would like to edit 2D floor plans. Thank you. bgspa 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddy-2 Posted July 23, 2019 Share Posted July 23, 2019 Serif's DrawPlus does open DXF and DWG files and they seem to copy and paste well into Designer. Assuming there are no unforeseen snags (Serif could advise if there are) and given that DrawPlus does other things as well, would it be worthwhile paying the £19.99 for a copy to supplement Designer? Link: https://www.serif.com/en-gb/ Diller 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamesarm97 Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 I would love DXF import support also. I am mainly using it to import files from fusion and laser cut, currently I still need to use Inkscape as part of the flow to convert DXF to SVG then import with Designer. Diller and ReinhardK 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamesarm97 Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 On 7/23/2019 at 7:45 AM, Eddy-2 said: Serif's DrawPlus does open DXF and DWG files and they seem to copy and paste well into Designer. Assuming there are no unforeseen snags (Serif could advise if there are) and given that DrawPlus does other things as well, would it be worthwhile paying the £19.99 for a copy to supplement Designer? Link: https://www.serif.com/en-gb/ You would think that if they could import DXF into DrawPlus, then the transition into Designer wouldn't be all that hard since they have done it before and have the code / specs. I mean, if they can do EPS / PDF it can't be that hard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arch_dan Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 I am curious what everyone in this forum does as a work around. It is very clear that this is a much needed feature. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron Martin Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 1 hour ago, dan325013 said: I am curious what everyone in this forum does as a work around. Affinity, export to pdf/svg, open in ai, export to dwg, use in cad. Open for a better workaround suggestion Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arch_dan Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 18 minutes ago, Aaron Martin said: Affinity, export to pdf/svg, open in ai, export to dwg, use in cad. Open for a better workaround suggestion The whole reason why i bought Affinity Designer was so that I didn't have to pay $60 / month for Adobe CC lol. I suppose I can just export out of AutoCAD as PDF and just open it in Affinity Designer as PDF, but I would prefer to import it directly from AutoCAD to save some time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron Martin Posted August 24, 2019 Share Posted August 24, 2019 13 hours ago, dan325013 said: The whole reason why i bought Affinity Designer was so that I didn't have to pay $60 / month for Adobe CC lol. Don't get me wrong. Since i’ve been using affinity, my life has gone so much easier. I believe they’ve pretty much did what they aimed for, which is very good imho. The thing is i’ve kinda got spoiled and that has risen my expectation from the affinity team to deliver perfection to my workflow. I believe at some point, they will also add this feature. Since its pretty obvious from the demands. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac2474 Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 On 3/23/2015 at 5:54 PM, MEB said: We are considering adding support for these kind of files in the future. Does it really take 4 and a half years to decide or at least give a time-line if these formats will be supported or not? Diller 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiB Posted September 5, 2019 Share Posted September 5, 2019 Just wanted to import DXF from SolidWorks... Wow! I can not believe this isn't supported. SolidWorks can export ai files, but in Designer circles are not circles any more. Just clouds of dots, connected with straight lines. Not usable! ReinhardK and Diller 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schack Posted November 4, 2019 Share Posted November 4, 2019 On 3/23/2015 at 6:54 PM, MEB said: Hi redline.wolfgang, Welcome to Affinity Forums Some users already requested support for DXF and/or DWG files. We are considering adding support for these kind of files in the future. You have been "considering this" since the first requests from users began back in 2015, maybe even earlier. Its been an export option in Illustrator and CorelDraw for ages, even Inkscape does it. I would just like Affinity to come clean about it. Is it even on the roadmap? Do they acknowledge that any modern vector application should be able to export to the most broadly adopted file format across digital production machines? Why has something that seems simple, an export option, taken so long to implement? Is it a royalty issue? I just want some answers since I've been awaiting this since I first bought Designer back in 2015. PrinceCorwin, Recalde, bgspa and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrinceCorwin Posted November 12, 2019 Share Posted November 12, 2019 Come on Affinity. Moment of truth. AD is a vector software. DXF / DWG is the most used, recognized, and shared vector file format across the globe. No excuses at this point. I work on CAD at work and Affinity at home (only because I can't afford an AutoCAD license for home use). I'm about to jump ship, although you probably don't care now that you've gotten my money. It's been "considered" for years. At least tell us why it hasn't been implemented. Recalde and ReinhardK 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joachim_L Posted November 12, 2019 Share Posted November 12, 2019 3 hours ago, PrinceCorwin said: DXF / DWG is the most used, recognized, and shared vector file format across the globe. ? Doubt this. Working with media for 30 years, DWG or DXF were nearly non-existent for my daily routine. Freehand files, EPS, AI were the file types I had to use. 2ct Quote ------ Windows 10 | i5-8500 CPU | Intel UHD 630 Graphics | 32 GB RAM | Latest Retail and Beta versions of complete Affinity range installed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fixx Posted November 12, 2019 Share Posted November 12, 2019 1 hour ago, Joachim_L said: ? Doubt this. Depends.. I think there is no reliable statistics about that. The field has too much variation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RPC Posted December 25, 2019 Share Posted December 25, 2019 +1 here too, and gotta say I have not been impressed with feature updates for AD since I bought it. Publisher has some okay things going for it, but in the end I don't think it was worth pulling the resources away from AD and AP at least from an outside point of view who is not impressed enough with publisher to bother buying it. Would be cool to see sales number comparison of it vs AD and AP to see the real facts. For all I know it was a major success, but from all the people I know it was a major flop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VAd Posted February 13, 2020 Share Posted February 13, 2020 Dwg /dxf Please!! ReinhardK and bgspa 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schnoepp Posted February 15, 2020 Share Posted February 15, 2020 I'am Jörg, lightingdesigner from Artemide, i like to change this year to a new mac. If AD has the DWG ex- Import I will change at once to AD. Please add this plugIn. Thanx ReinhardK 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edward Goodwin Posted February 18, 2020 Share Posted February 18, 2020 +1 please... Particularly for SolidWorks... ReinhardK 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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