Knowing this, the only way to achieve a 100% data exchange is to use the same program in the same revision on the same platform. formattings/styles of text/dims/hatches or worse proprietary element types as e.g. Geometry typically work fine whereas e.g.
for macOS too (DXF/DWG toolkit is used by Shark/VC)īe aware, that the DXF/DWG format, as the industry standard for 2D CAD data exchange, is covering an intersection of element types only if exchanging data between different CAx systems. alternatively: OpenDesign Teigha Viewer avail.the reference: Autodesk DWG TrueView (a stripped down AC).Hopefully someone who actually uses AI can comment and make better recommendations on the best workflow.In general, don't evaluate DXF/DWGs by reimporting to Shark/VC or other CAD systems for avoiding errors created by their import filters, use a dedicated DXF/DWG viewer instead: Duplicate the Viewport, Convert to Polygons, and then export that to DWG for import to AI. If you are going to be doing isometric views, I would probably adopt a 3D workflow and then use a Viewport to display exactly the view I wanted. So what I think is happening is that the solid is getting exported as just the lines with no faces between. My (probably incorrect) understanding is that originally Autocad (the base program where DWG was developed) did not support surfaces. I think the DWG export setting for Export Solids as ACIS Solids, and Triangulate to Preserve Fills will help get you surfaces instead of just lines, but may not work especially well for reworking them in AI. You really need to pick either a complete 2D or complete 3D workflow. The "roof" objects are just polygons which are 2D objects. If you view it in OpenGL (the normal viewing mode for 3D views) it will show as a filled object. The "base" of the building (the part you push/pulled) is actually a true 3D solid. I think you need to read up on the difference between 2D and 3D objects. I have tried playing around with basically every export to DWG setting there is to no avail. As I'm having concurrent issues in AutoCad as well, I'm pretty sure it's something I've done wrong wither in my VW drawing, or when exporting. I should also note that I'm exporting as a 2010 DWG, and my online research told me anything newer and Illustrator would not read it. There is nothing here to fill, and each line would have to be manually connected in Illustrator, which again isn't feasble on a larger drawing. The lower section imported as a grouped selection of single lines. These imported as surfaces, albeit in the wrong order front-back (I would have to use the 'arrange front/back' tool to correct this, which isn't feasible on a more complex drawing, this is just a test).
Here in Illustrator to demonstrate what I mean, I've 'exploded' out the roof sections and given them a fill (they imported with no fill). Once opened in Illustrator, and AutoCAD, I get the attached. The whole time it's a 'filled' shape, which I take to mean a conection of surfaces. The lower section was made by drawing a rectangle from the basic tools palette, and using 'push/pull' to extrude this. I used Polylines to create the 'roof' sections, and once the shape was completed in VW it filled and became (what I'd call) a surface. When using Rhino previously to achieve this, I used 'Make2D', which although a little glitchy at times got me a reliable drawing that worked.Īny advice? Apologies if this has come up before, I tried searching as best possible.Īpologies, I should have been clearer. I need something I can select all and change the line weight/colour, and then something I'm about to dynamic fill into to choose colours. The drawing is going to be reasonably complex in the end, so adjusting this all manually in Illustrator isn't an option. The upper section consists of polygons (one filled white no lineweight, one no fill with a lineweight, grouped together) but as you can see it's been mixed up. Essentially the lower section is just a group of single lines, with no fill/nothing to fill. Whilst I have no intention of opening these drawings in AutoCAD, I wanted to check i was getting the same issue as when I open in. The lower section was made by drawing a rectangle and extruding, and the top (roof) section was made in four parts from polylines. It all renders as a having white/default fill. I plan to use Vectorworks to produce basic 3D models and then do my final annotation and tweaking in Illustrator. DWG is the best way to retain vectorised artwork. I've created a basic model I want to export to Illustrator, and reading online/on here exporting as a. Hello - hoping someone can help someone very (very) new to Vectorworks.
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