[Dave Macfarlane]

Once again thanks for your posts. However i think i’ve just found the solution to my long-standing mystery. It seems that there must be some sort of tolerance aspect to paths and anchor points. If i add more anchor points to the path of a shape, instead of appearing as just a ‘line’ it creates the shape when extruded in c4d.

I have been working with fairly small files in AI, i don’t know why as they’re vectors! And i presume that not enough anchor points have been getting added for the path to be recognised in c4d.

Thanks again.

[Dave Macfarlane]

Hi Adam
Thanks so much for taking the time to respond to my post. However i’ve tried what you’ve suggested, ‘multi selecting’ and then connecting the splines, but this doesn’t seem to have any effect. I also select ‘connect splines’ when i import the file in to C4D.

Is there something that i could be doing wrong in Illustrator which would cause the file to import incorrectly in the first place?

With this file i’ve traced it from a low res jpeg, in AI, then deleted background and surrounding boxes etc. The paths are present in AI, but as mentioned it isn’t extruding ‘the centre’ in the letters. It is saved as an AI file in the AI 8 format. Plus i can’t type the text as it’s designed and not standard font.