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Importing SolidWorks Model into Adobe Illustrator

Importing SolidWorks Model into Adobe Illustrator

Importing SolidWorks Model into Adobe Illustrator

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What is the procedure for importing a SolidWorks model into Adobe Illustrator?

Our product was designed using SW "08" and our instruction/user manuals are designed using Illustrator.

Any information would be appreciated.

RE: Importing SolidWorks Model into Adobe Illustrator

PDF goes nicely into Illustrator.

RE: Importing SolidWorks Model into Adobe Illustrator

SW can also save as Illustrator (.ai) files.
I believe parts and assembly files are saved as images, and drawings and sketches are saved as vectors.

cheers

RE: Importing SolidWorks Model into Adobe Illustrator

What we do for our catalog and trifolds depends on what we're giving our graphic designer.  If it's a dimensional drawing we'll either give him a dxf or AI file.  He usually has to work with the line thickness's to "crisp" them up a bit though.

If it's a nice pretty picture we'll give him a tiff image.

hope this helps....

Grant
Applications Engineer
SW2008 X64 SP 3.1
Dell Precision T5400
Nvidia Quadro FX 5600
Xeon 2.5GHz Quad Core, 4GB RAM
XP Pro X64 SP2.0
 

RE: Importing SolidWorks Model into Adobe Illustrator

TIFF - when colors and shades are needed.
DXF - when lineart only is needed.

SW2008 Office Pro SP4.0
Intel Core 2 Duo CPU
2.2GHz, 2.00GB RAM
QuadroFX 3700
SpacePilot

RE: Importing SolidWorks Model into Adobe Illustrator

FYI we dont use photoworks we save a drawing as a tiff.

our settings for saving as a tiff

rgb full color
uncompressed
print capture
300 dpi

results in a nice picture.   

Grant
Applications Engineer
SW2008 X64 SP 3.1
Dell Precision T5400
Nvidia Quadro FX 5600
Xeon 2.5GHz Quad Core, 4GB RAM
XP Pro X64 SP2.0
 

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