Export form Affinity Designer to Lightburn does not work correctly

[mmocz]

Hi! I have a really weird issue with getting my designs from Affinity Designer 2 into Lightburn 1.3.01.

I am unable to get my vector designs into Lightburn properly. My only workaround is to save my files as JPG in Affinity Designer, import them into Lightburn and trace them, and that is not ideal.

This is my Designer file (it is not dependant on this file, all my files do not work):

If I copy paste it into Lightburn, I get this:

I get the same result if I convert it into curves and copy paste.

If I save it as SVG and PDF and them import into Lightburn I still get the same issue.

Whenever I see a DPI setting I make sure its 72 - same in Designer as in Lightburn.

I have no idea, what is wrong… Would anyone please be able to help me?

Thanks!

[RalphU (RU)]

Can you upload the Affinity file?

[mmocz]

Sure!

It seems it does not allow me to upload it here directly, I saved it to my OneDrive:
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AnixDxYPqIyqg6AsSVDG_BiGsFBGzg?e=dyV9gf

[Marcus_Wakefield]

@mmocz

It seems it does not allow me to upload it here directly,

Yes, the forum is very restricted on the formats it allows you to upload. The trick is to append a .txt to the end of the file name (after the existing extension eg. filename.afdesign.txt). This will allow you to upload.

[mmocz]

Smart!
export_issue.afdesign.txt (99.1 KB)

[RalphU (RU)]

You are designing using stroke widths in Affinity. Lightburn does not consider stroke widths. You would have to expand the stroke for the “ray” lines, and also the diamond. When you do that, the file gets pretty messy.

[mmocz]

… I would have never thought about that. Thanks!

So if I oversimplify it, should be doing something like this instead:

Not using stroke widths and instead create each line from two smal lines?

[berainlb (PY)]

I would suggest using closed shapes only.

One single shape for the entire perimeter, then individual close shapes for each hole.

[RalphU (RU)]

Yes. And everything should be connected like below.

[Marcus_Wakefield]

Well, I found a way of doing it but I’d need to go back to retrace my steps before offering a stepwise solution for the file you provided.

EDIT:
Here’s the Affinity file with history enabled so at least you get an idea of how I got there:
export_issue - MRW.afdesign.txt (174.5 KB)

[mmocz]

Thank you all very much for your help! I appreciate it, have learned something new thanks to you!

[mmocz]

This was really helpful! Thanks!

Did not know the expand stroke feature, this seems like the easiest way to do, what I want.

https://affinity.help/designer/en-US.lproj/index.html?page=pages/CurvesShapes/expandStroke.html&title=Expand%20stroke

[Marcus_Wakefield]

@mmocz

Did not know the expand stroke feature, this seems like the easiest way to do, what I want.

Yes, that was part of my solution, along with duplication, intersection, adding, ungrouping, setting fill and stroke width… It was a fairly involved process but if you step back and forth through the history you should hopefully manage to replicate it with other designs if needed.