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AutoCAD to PhotoShop


Jeff Mottle
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Hi Guys,

 

Thanks for the excellent tut. dl you know of any way to get CAd to illustrator or Freehand?

Between myself, and a couple of other guys, we have not been able to acheive this, other than this convoluted technique:

1. Clean up CAD and W Block out for import to Viz

2. extrude the imported Block(be sure to clean cleaned up a bit mind you - no hatch, etc.)a small amount.

4. Render TOP (or side) view with Illustrate with .ai output designated. This has proven somewhat unreliable for anything beyond the most simplisting lineart.

 

There has got to be a simpler way!!

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in the past i often used eps, but now i work completely different. the best, easiest and fastest way is to "plot" your drawings in a pdf-file. the "pdf-virtual-plotter" reacts as a normal plotter concerning the plot settings etc. after that you can easily open the file in photoshop and dsign your drawings. for me it works great !!

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Originally posted by kunstraum.tv:

in the past i often used eps, but now i work completely different. the best, easiest and fastest way is to "plot" your drawings in a pdf-file. the "pdf-virtual-plotter" reacts as a normal plotter concerning the plot settings etc. after that you can easily open the file in photoshop and dsign your drawings. for me it works great !!

You know, we had a number of cad drawings (elevations, sections, floor plans, etc) that we wanted to inlcude in our new publication, and I had a hell of a time plotting them to a pdf file....for some reason, all the lines came out very faint in photoshop and I had to go in and tweak them (which wasn't a huge deal, but at about 80 figures, it took a while :mad:

 

 

just my 2 cents :)

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