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Extrude creates a block, ignoring the empty areas within a spline
Hello and apologies first off because this is probably a very newbish question (I only recently started learning Cinema 4D in fact).
I created a path in Photoshop, exported the paths to an .ai file, and merged it into a Cinema 4D project, then used Extrude on the splines, but it hasn’t turned out the way I wanted.
As you can see, Extrude has created a completely filled in block, whereas the splines have an empty section in between. I’m sure it’s an easy fix but I honestly didn’t even know how to word a Google search for this, so my question is, why is it doing this (i.e. what am I doing wrong), and how do I get the result I desire?
Thank you in advance!
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How did you merge them in Illustrator? Wait, are you sure both splines are closed?
Regardless, you can split them apart in C4D and then use a Spline Mask to make it do what you want or just run the Connect and Delete command. Either way, my test splines are behaving the way you want, so I don’t know what’s up.
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I decided to start from scratch and trace them in Illustrator… but when they get imported into Cinema 4D, the spines aren’t closed… I don’t understand why.
Illustrator:
Cinema 4D:
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cleck and check the “Close Spline ” option in every spline to se if that helps.
Good luck
Imagination is the best tool…
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If I check “Close Spine” it just turns it into a block again…
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If you could share your file, we can take a look
Imagination is the best tool…
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I decided to just retrace it with the pen tool in Cinema 4D itself, rather than wasting time with import issues. It works the way I intended it to now.
Thanks for your help though. 🙂
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