The Ai files I export from Rhino 7 will not open in Inkscape and Adobe Illustrator.
They do however, open fine in my laser cutting software, Lightburn.
While I do not own Illustrator, this has been reported by numerous customers of mine who purchase laser cutting files from me.
I do own Inkscape however and when I try to load the .Ai files in there, I get a “failed to load requested file” error.
I’ve included an example file as an attachment:
Ai Export.ai (2.2 KB)
Can we get the original 3DM file this came from to test?
I guess running Systeminfo in Rhino would be good to see the results.
Is this a saveAs command or export?
I also see the same thing. Rhino will read it, but Illustrator will not.
Hi, it’s an export as… It’s the same for every file, not just this one. See attached .3dm and System Info results.
Ai Export.txt (2.6 KB)
Ai Export.3dm (19.2 KB)
the geometry in the file is quite far from the origin. illustrator has a “pasteboard” which is analogous to the c-plane of rhino, but far smaller, ~220" x 220".
i exported the geometry from rhino (r7 sr37) to ai (1mm = 1mm) and opened the ai file in notepad. the bounding box is:
-15672 -340 1 1
which is much larger than the allowable pasteboard of illustrator in metric
exported it again, this time from the plan view, not perspective and the bounding box is:
575 767 5318 3381
which should fit on the pasteboard.
fwiw, the illustrator file opens on my computer no problem. running illustrator 28.2
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I can open it with Vectorpea,
Just as @BTH reminded you before, this object is too far away from the origin and completely exceeds illustrator’s drawing area. You need to move the object to the origin and try to export the .ai file again.
Here is the 3dm file with the drawing moved to 0,0,0
Also, the Ai file thtat I then went and exported.
Still won’t load in Inskcape for me, not sure about Illustrator as I don’t own it.
Ai Export.3dm (19.5 KB)
Ai 0 0 0.ai (2.1 KB)
Interesting that it opens on a later version of Illustrator…
After moving it to 0,0,0, it still won’t open in Inkscape
Please via Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V to achieve it,
Thank Jesse,
But unfortunately, coppying to clipboard and pasting doen’t solve my issue as I sell Ai files for people on Etsy.
I have to find out why the Ai files I’m exporting aren’t able to open in Illustrator.
I’ve already been given a 1 star review by a Karen for this.
Have you tried to export the .svg file before?
Doesn’t work, dimensions aren’t preserved 
See CopyPaste problem, from Rhino to AffinityDesigner or Inkscape - Rhino - McNeel Forum
I’d like to know which version of Rhino 8 are you using now? I tested it with Rhino 8.13 and Inkscape 1.3.2.
Could you run SystemInfo in the command line of Rhino, and post the popup content here? Thanks.
Thanks for your information, please run the command PluginMangaer in the command line of Rhino, and search export_SVG.rph plugin, then check it out and try it again. Thanks.
Dimensions are not preserved.
See the topic I sent. No changes afer many updates of Rhino
Hi Jacek -
I don’t have Illustrator to test with, but this seems to come in fine in both Inkscape and roundtripping back into Rhino.
→ ai curves to svg.svg
-wim
Hi friend,
Opens easily and fast in my Illustrator - on the lower left edge of an A4 sheet artboard.
My Illustrator version is probably the very latest version 29.1 updated four days ago.
Sorry if I missed that this was already solved, so many technical answers above 
Edit: And this was for your .ai file Ai “0 0 0.ai”
Hi, yes, I export SVG and PDF files without issue. It’s only yht Ai files that are unreadable in Illustrator and Inkscape.
Thank you friend, that’s reassuring to know it works on the latest version of Ai when I have everything moved to 0,0,0.