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Illustrator CS2 to Cinema4D
I’ve read similar posts about importing paths from illustrator to cinema4D, but for the life of me, I can not get it to work. I create a vector shape in Illustrator. I try to save as an Illustrator 8 file because thats what someone here said was the compatible format. There is no option to save as an illustrator 8 file in my menu. In fact, there is no way to save as any other version then a standard .ai file. (CS2) I also tried exporting but there was no option for Illustrator 8.
I’ve tried importing .ai files in general in C4D and it usually says “can not read file”. I guess I am totally lost and a google search doesnt produce a good answer. Any help?
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5 Replies
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Hey,
1. Make file in Illustrator
2. Go to file>export, select illustrator legacy as the file type
3. choose illustrator 8 as the version.Take care,
Nick
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I went to the Export menu (as well as the Save As menu) and there is definitely not a “illustrator legacy” option. You can save as photoshop, tiff, AutoCAD, swf, targa, etc. but nothing even related to illustrator at all. Am I smoking crack?? Or is my Illustrator messed up?
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Hi there,
I was having the exact problem, and Google searches turned up nothing for me too. I am using Illustrator CS2 and Cinema 4D 9. I have just tried to take Nick’s advice and export as Illustrator Legacy, and save as Illustrator 8… My CS2 does not offer any of these options, either as a ‘save as’ or an ‘export’… What’s the deal here? I really need to find out!
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Nevermind! As soon as I posted I figured it out!
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Feel free to share this information with me…. =P
Just kidding, I figured it out too. You just do a regular “Save As”, (saving as an .ai file) and click OK, and then a SECOND menu (a menu I never pay attention to) comes up talking about preserving paths, being PDF compatible, saving outlines, etc. there is also a window at the very top that defaults to Version CS2, but u can switch the dropdown menu to choose a different version. Click Version 8 and save.
Then you can do a File> Open in Cinema 4D and open up that .ai file. Voila.
Wow…its rare that I end up answering my own post. =)
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