From the course: Rhino: File Management and Prototyping
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Export from Rhino to Illustrator - Rhino Tutorial
From the course: Rhino: File Management and Prototyping
Export from Rhino to Illustrator
- [Narrator] Next up, we focus on exporting from Rhino to Illustrator. The most common reason would be for marketing or presentation graphics. Now before you ask, we can only export curves. No surfaces or solids exist in Illustrator. Ideally, we want to keep all of our curves on one flat plane. And we'll be doing this in the top view when we get ready to export. I also just personally like to avoid any groups or blocks to be safe. And if there's stuff that doesn't show up in this next operation, I'm going to turn certain layers off. For example, right here, we've got some internal stuff inside there, and I'm just going to turn off the interior layer. Now a really popular way to export from Rhino into Illustrator is with the make 2D command. We're going to access this from the dimension menu. And here is the command called make 2D drawing. Now it's asking us which objects that are going to be analyzed for this export.…
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