Exporting Clone Objects to Illustrator

[Jordan Quackenbush]

Export to DXF, polyline. It takes whatever is in your TOP viewport window. I made a cube, put it in a cloner, lined it up so I liked what was in the Top viewport. Saved as DXF polyline, and opened that in Illustrator, and had all 3 cubes as square lines, as expected.

Jordan Q
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[Sara Orfali]

Nay…doesn’t work with this one! 8911_bal.c4d.zip

[Jordan Quackenbush]

Are you wanting the sketch/toon outlines to be the lines? I don’t know if that can be done. I’m on Broadcast so no S/T for me to test. I think it only works with what your wireframe is, so you’ll see back ends of boxes, etc.

Anyhow, you’ll want to uncheck “render instances” on your cloner. Apparently, the random effector’s work doesn’t translate over to the DXF file, at least, not for lines in Illustrator. So make your cloner editable (get it how you like it first), and delete the sphere. This worked for me to get the lines into illustrator.

But as said, you get the wireframes of all the boxes; not the S/T lines. I don’t know how to get that over.

Jordan Q
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[Sara Orfali]

Thanks Jordan! I can work with that!

[Jordan Quackenbush]

Glad to help.

To reiterate for perhaps someone else finding this, normally you don’t have to make your clone editable (or at least, I didn’t in my initial test), but the use of the effector (in this case, a random effector) doesn’t carry the effect over to Illustrator – so you have to make the Cloner editable to “bake in” the effector.

Jordan Q
If I’m posting a question, it means I’ve Googled it for far too long and couldn’t find a solution/answer.