Imported circular .SVGs are not round

[stainlessdmc12]

I created an elipse in Affinity. Imported into layerling. Its not circular. I cant see where I can the quality. When I import the same .SVG into TC it defaults with a quality value of 8 ( I increase this to 24 ) which makes it very much more circular.
So ( I can`t find it ) is there any way to do the same in Layerling?

gary lineker.football.svg.zip
I added the file if you need to check.. :)
Thanks

[henmedia]

@stainlessdmc12, welcome, and thank you for the picture and the file, it showed it exactly. layerling has no quality setting for an imported SVG: every curve was cut into the same small number of pieces, so a large circle like yours came out with visible corners. I changed it: the pieces now follow the length of the curve, so a large circle is round and small curves stay as light as before. It is built and comes with the next release; your football then imports round.

If you'd like to support the project, you can do that at https://layerling.com/support.html - it is very welcome.

[henmedia]

@stainlessdmc12, the round circles are in 1.81.0: the pieces of a curve now follow its length, so a large circle is round. Reload the page to get it; the installed app needs a restart. Please import your football again and tell me if it looks right.

[stainlessdmc12]

Restarted and didn`t even have to import the file again.. thank you :) oh and I supported a couple days ago :) thanks for the update and work with this... Liking it more and more..

[henmedia]

@stainlessdmc12, glad the football is round now, and thank you for the support, it is very welcome.

[stainlessdmc12]

ok another issue :) Thats inconsistant with TC. Its to do with making an imported .SVG a hole and combining that hole with an imported .SVG (solid) It's not getting cut out. Let me try and explain with some pics.
I have this .SVG

I made two circles that will cover that I want to combine with the fooltball .SVG ( they are purple to show them )
I combined them. I would assume when you combine two solids ( same height ) you won`t see the individual parts ( shown here )

Anyway... so I want to make that combined part a hole ( which shows the two combined parts even more )

So I bring back the yellow part ( because I want to use the combined hole to cut out from the yellow part ) This is where is breaks.
I choose the hole ( two football image ) and the yellow part and combine.. nothing happens.

In TC when you do this you will end up with a two football hole in the yellow part.
Hope this helps.

[henmedia]

@stainlessdmc12, thank you for the pictures, they show the steps well. I tried the same with your football: I put a circle over it, grouped them, made the group a hole and grouped it with a plate of the same height, and the hole was cut out. So it works in that order here, and something in your design is different.

In your last picture the Group button in the Combine section is greyed out, so layerling is not even trying to group. That happens when a selected part is locked (a small padlock beside its name in the properties), or when only one part is selected. Could you check whether the yellow part, or the hole, is locked? If it is not, please post the design as a .lyl file here (Export window → LYL), and I will see what is different.

[stainlessdmc12]

Thanks for checking.. neither the yellow part or the football part is locked. So I made gthe football part a solid and combined it with the yellow part ( also a solid ) and it combined them..

It shows the football part outline.. but when I move the yellow part the outline disappears. But if I make the football part a hole and combine it with the yellow part ( solid ) nothing happens... I can`t do or move anything for about 10 seconds after that combine operation.

[stainlessdmc12]

Here we go
Gary Lineker Footballer.zip

[henmedia]

@stainlessdmc12, thank you for the file, it showed it exactly. The cause is the football outline in your design: when layerling built it from the SVG, its top and bottom faces overlap in places, so it is not a clean solid. A solid made of it can be shown, but it cannot be cut with. That is why grouping it as a hole does nothing, and why it takes about ten seconds before layerling gives up. It happens with your football here too, so it is not something you did.

I will change how an SVG like this is built, so that touching and overlapping outlines come out as one clean body. I will write here when it is done.

[stainlessdmc12]

I hope you don`t mind me referring to tinkercad all the time. This is the app I use, hence why I refer to how that works. I would like to move to layerlin because it seems much more advanced.

[henmedia]

@stainlessdmc12, no need to mind, it helps me to know how Tinkercad does it, and I am glad you want to move over. The football outline that would not cut is fixed in 1.84.0: a drawing made of areas that share edges, like the faces of a football, now comes in as a body that cuts cleanly. Reload the page to get it; the installed app needs a restart. Please try your two-football hole in the yellow part again and tell me how it goes.