Adobe Illustrator and SolidWorks
Adobe Illustrator and SolidWorks
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I have been tyring to get files from SolidWorks into Adobe Illy for a while now and am having issues with it. Everything I try is either not full scale, all messed up, or comes into Illy as nothing. Does anyone use this feature or have any input for me? SolidWorks has a function under edit to "copy to Adobe illustrator". And as far as I can tell it does absolutely nothing. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am using SolidWorks 2009 sp5.1 and Illy CS4
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RE: Adobe Illustrator and SolidWorks
Is this for line-work (2D drawings)? If so, did you know you can save a drawing view from your model/assembly in perspective? And that the drawing will show the same view in perspective, as long as it's a "saved view" within your part/assembly (nice to have for patent drawing output instead of mere isometric). Anyway, I think line drawings are the only thing that will convert to a useful format within Illustrator.
I don't use Illustrator, since "illustrating" is quite difficult when one cannot even specify a dimension for a radius without an expensive-for-no-reason add-on to the program.
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thread559-103208: importing Adobe Illustrator Drawing to trace over
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Chris
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I have not tried it that way but I definitely am going to. And yes it is for line-work. It is very frustrating that the two programs act like they would work great together when nothing actually works out. Thanks again for the input guys
RE: Adobe Illustrator and SolidWorks
I actually know and have discussed this situation with the author of that article you posted. And I dont have any issues bringing an ai into solidworks... I can't export from SolidWorks into Illy.
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Chris
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Chris
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ctopher's home
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Did "File/ Save As/.ai".
Double-click on file, it opened in CS4.
Chris
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Maybe it's your graphic settings?
I did nothing special on mine.
Chris
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The parts are going to be made from my .ai file. Saving as a pdf gives a raster image. I need vectors.
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I've gone SW to AI via PDF and gotten vector. Specifically, a SW drawing with no shaded views to PDF then to AI.
RE: Adobe Illustrator and SolidWorks
Rob Rodriguez CSWP
www.axiscadsolutions.com
www.robrodriguez.com
http://www.robrodriguezblog.com
Eastern Region SWUGN Representative www.swugn.org www.nvtswug.com
SW 2007 SP 2.0
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