Affinity Designer Basics with Glowforge

[markwal]

This search might be interesting:

https://community.glowforge.com/search?q=affinity

Some particular results that I pulled out:

Custom Inkscape, Illustrator, CorelDraw and Affinity Designer Color Palettes for ordering operations in GFUI

Continuing the discussion from Space Invaders or Mitral Valve Leaflets, you decide: I have always been curious about how the Glowforge defaults the order of operations. I have tested it in terms of position in the workspace and order of creation in the design. Nothings seemed to click right, but I had a sneaking suspicion that it was dermined by color. The Glowforge catalog designs always load in the same order, though you can drag and change them in the workspace, so I figured there must be so…

Glowforge Interface - Correctly Save a File as an SVG for the GFUI

For All Programs: If you want to engrave a bitmap (raster) style image and include it inside a vector SVG file, you need to Embed the image in the file if you want it to stay aligned inside the SVG file. Otherwise you will need to re-load the raster file and use the camera to align it visually. (That’s fine, but you will completely lose the benefit of more accurate alignment that you get from the design software.) There are instructions for how to Embed raster images for some of the main 2D…

Affinity design settings

This is the only thing I use AD for, so once I set these up the first time, it automagically loads them every time. I’m sure there’s a better way, but this was my “good enuf” answer… [22%20PM] I know common wisdom says set the DPI to 96, but this preserves the resolution of any embedded bitmaps to be engraved.

edit: fixed the third link after figuring out how to use the clipboard properly