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[grunt58]

Can SW2010 or will SW 2011 be able to output vector art ? Our graphics people are asking for renderings in vector form.

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[MadMango]

Yes, you can export out a screen image as an Adobe Illustrator file (filename.ai), via Save As.

"Art without engineering is dreaming; Engineering without art is calculating."

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[KENAT]

Or, my friends in tech pubs can open dxf files with Adobe Illustrator as I recall.

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http://eng-tips.com/market.cfm?

(probably not aimed specifically at you)
What is Engineering anyway: faq1088-1484​

 

[MadMango]

Oh, and PDF can be vectorized as well.

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[grunt58]

MM thanks. Our graphics person told me saving as an AI just makes it a raster image saved as a vector so it's not editable.

Kenat thanks, dfx's do work but any color is lost. They want nice pretty pictures.

Unless 2011 has something up it's sleeve guess all we can offer are .tiffs.

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[grunt58]

what do you mean vectorized?

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[ctopher]

What file extension can your graphics person use?

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[TheTick]

Artists asking engineers for pretty pictures? Tell them to do their own jobs. Engineers have enough work to do already, and artists are lucky to be working at all.

Anyhoo, PDF can make vector art that goes into AI.

 

[MikeHalloran]

When CAD was new, to me anyway, I expended substantial project resources to provide 3D DXFs of our new product for the publications department.

Total waste of time. They waited until the prototypes existed, then sent over an illustrator with a ruler, a sketchbook and a pencil.



Mike Halloran
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[grunt58]

They use Adobe products like InDesign so whatever they can except. We gave them a list of what SW and PhotoView 360 can save as, none were what they wanted.

It's a dead issue now. They settled on tiffs again for now.

Thanks all.

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[EEnd]

Line drawings can be saved as vector images.

Rendered / shaded images are bitmaps. Asking for vector forms of those images is like asking for vector forms of your vacation photos.

Eric

 

[MadMango]

I've had to use vectorized photos in the past. I can't find the site I had used, but this one seems very reasonably priced.

http://vectormagic.com/home

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