Re: Need help importing a logo from Adobe Illustrator (.eps or .ai file)

Brain wrote:
I need to import a client's logo (.ai or .eps file) into autocad 04 or 05, arrange the different pieces intto a circle pattern and scale them. I can import the file but acad quits if I try to manipulate the geometry in any way. I have tried importing to existing layers and a layer of it's own. We have also tried different things in illustrator. It always seems to crash it, no matter how I do it. Anyone have experience with this?



I just exported a .dwg from Illustrator CS into 2006 and 2005 and didn't have any troubles scaling or modifying the resulting objects. Unfilled circles became ellipses, filled objects become regions or 2d solids, etc. I don't know how you were importing an .ai or .eps directly, but the DWG export from Illustrator seems to work well.

If all else fails, try exploding anything you import first and join polylines or make new regions as necessary.
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