zuken86 Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 Is there a way to increase the quality of a drawing in illustrator after it is copied and pasted from Vectorworks. It works well with straight lines but doesn't work with curves. Quote Link to comment
Monadnoc Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 I think you would be better off exporting your drawing as a .dwg and importing (opening) that into Illustrator. This way you would get true vector information. I don't believe copy/paste would transfer vector info (between VW and AI, it does for others), but I could be wrong. I haven't tried opening up a VW exported .dwg file in AI, but I have opened native .dwg files many times in AI. It works a treat. Layers even come over. I don't see why it wouldn't work with a VW generated .dwg. Sometimes AI balks at ACAD 2010 files (and above) due to 3D issues maybe? Secret formulas for translation? Who knows... so you may want to try exporting as a lower dwg version than 2010. ACAD 2000 is the best in my experience. But people have used 2004 with success too. Also, you could save/print to PDF and open that with AI, and that should maintain all the vector data too. At least if you use Acrobat to create it. I'm not sure how the built in PDF engine works in VW or Apple, in terms of what stays vector and what's turned to bitmap. But I've opened many PDF's in AI and had all the vector info there. Monadnoc Quote Link to comment
zuken86 Posted February 27, 2012 Author Share Posted February 27, 2012 Monadnoc, Thanks for the descriptive response. Typically for a more complicated drawing, I use the export and import method to bring drawing from VW to AI. I am just messing around to see if it works with copy/paste to boost up my workflow. Quote Link to comment
Monadnoc Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 So when you copy/paste from VW into AI, does it come in as vector data? I haven't tried it in a few years, but I thought it used to come in as bitmap. Maybe it has changed now ... That would speed up the work flow. Monadnoc Quote Link to comment
zuken86 Posted February 28, 2012 Author Share Posted February 28, 2012 It comes in as vector but the quality isn't great especially for curve lines. If you look at my screen capture, you will know what I mean. Quote Link to comment
Kizza Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 export to eps and open in illustrator. I've done it many times, comes in as vector art (any images in the VW won't, obviously) Quote Link to comment
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