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Import to Rhino from Illustrator

Import to Rhino from Illustrator - Rhino Tutorial

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Import to Rhino from Illustrator

- [Instructor] Do not adjust your viewing screen! We are in Adobe Illustrator. Since we're going to import curves to Rhino from Illustrator, let's take a look at the originating file. And, we have a couple different kinds of entities here, we're looking at. Notice we have a graphic image or bitmap. That will not make it. Instead, the focus will be primarily on curves. We've got a little wiggle curve here, and another curve there. So, it'll be interesting to note how those arrive inside Rhino, 'cause we have different colors and strokes. Also, we have text. Now, this text here is editable, which means I can click on it and start typing in different letters. So, that can be very handy. However, these curves will not arrive inside Rhino. Instead, we need to convert every character to a path. We do that by the Type, Create Outlines command. That is up here on the top. So, you'll select an editable font and it gets…

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