The very same goes for the inverse situation: Illustrator can 'open' a CorelDraw file. But that doesn't make it appropriate for use as a round-trip editor in a workflow that requires starting and ending with a native Illustrator file. Moreover, if I were the customer, I would utterly disallow it.įor example: CorelDraw can Save As…. I would not do that with any drawing program other than Illustrator, regardless of whether the other program can Save As…. It's a good thing those occasions are rare. On rare occasions, we need to modify and AI file provided by a customer, and send it back to them for verification. Claiming that Affinity is 'un-usable' is just as silly in this context as it is in any of the threads demanding far more broadly-desired features. Meanwhile, there are multiple online and open-source DXF converters. And yes, I say this as a technical illustrator.Īffinity is still very much a work-in-progress, and there is still much work of a more foundational nature that needs to be done or tuned. It's not even at the top of the wish lists of most users. Like many other desired things, DXF is simply not, at present, at the top of the development priority list, nor should it be. Importing DXF format exported from CAD programs in order to create visually appealing commercial artwork suitable for product marketing is squarely within the purview of general-purpose vector-based mainstream 2D illustration and design programs.Īnd that's why most competing programs provide for it.Īnd that's why I fully expect that Affinity will also provide for it- when the time is right from a development standpoint-which is entirely and appropriately at the discretion of the company which owns and develops the program. However, I feel that if Designer supported export plugins, the community is big enough that there would be 3rd party solutions to this problem, that Serif would not be responsible to. I understand that Adobe owns the rights to that file format, and thusly, Serif would be intruding on patent rights to include such capability in their software. Not having this ability would be a nuisance, but workable. An absolute must have feature in this industry. We often convert sketches or images to lineart, and convert it to DXF for running CNC machines. However, there's two points holding us back:ĭXF import/export is absolutely mandatory. My company is looking at purchasing a new photo/vector suite for all our locations, and Affinity is a major contender, largely due to their pricing structure (buy to own, not "subscribe") and their modern, easy to learn UI.
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