(AD - Mac) Need to make stroke width of 0.001pt. How?

[hannah]

Dear Affinity-Community, hopefully one of you knows something :

My client needs a file (pdf) that requires some lines (strokes) to be RGB-red and have a width of exactly 0.001pt. This hairlines will later define the cutting lines for caoutchouc, so I guess some kind of laser cutting. When i set the stroke width to 0.001point it jumps to zero!?!

What do I do? Any work-arounds or solutions? Thank you so much.

 

[John Rostron]

In this case, What You See is not What You get! The value entered is remembered, but the value you see depends on the Display Property for entered widths. Go to Edit > Properties and you should find the facility to display widths with different numbers of decimal places. I am not at my desktop PC at present so I cannot be too precise.

John

[hannah]

yes yes yes!!!! Found it, preferences : user interface.

Thank you John, indeed what we see is rarely what we get...

 

[colmMcG]

Hi

Via the above solution provided by hannah

I slowly figured out that the box for one pixel could be directly edited to save 0.001 pt

This is something that i need so as to use Afinity Designer with our laser cutter, the connection is fine and I can engrave with weights of 0.01 or above

but setting the weight of the stroke to 0.001,  this edit does not remain on display once the mouse moves away, only the first 0 shows.

Going to be a   mistake by my work place if Affinity designer can not be used as a ector drawing package with our laser cutter, hope it not true

 

thanks Colm

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Komatös]

On 3/13/2024 at 4:01 PM, colmMcG said:

hope it not true

Have you set the value for the number of decimal places for the points under Edit > Settings > User interface to 3 or higher?