I have noticed that when exporting perfectly constructed 2 dimensional shapes in illustrator format that shapes tend to diviate from the original rhino 5 file. By importing and overlaying the exported file in Rhino this is absolutely visible. Any suggestion for imroving this problem? Compared to …

Hi Dragan - can you post a simple example? I suspect the scale is very small- is that correct? -Pascal

Yes it is but very visible. It gets a little better when I converted the curved polylines in curves, but even then when enlarging one can see the difference in curves. Pretty strange as Rhino will import any vectors absolutely 100% but only providing the vectors for export it makes some really unpre…

If you compare the points and degree of the original Rhino curves to the AI curves you exported and imported, they are not identical, because AI doesn’t support NURBS curves like Rhino does. The approximations are very close and well within file tolerance, but not perfectly identical. I’m finding t…

What do you mean by enlarging? Do you mean zooming in? I guess Pascal is referring to the overall size of the object in document units in relation to the document tolerances.

export improt difference.3dm (48.3 KB) ok heres is a basic sample i just made for reference. (i thought an original file is better then a screenshot) John I agree with you totally your description is perfect way better then mine. Still vectors are vectors and should be both im und exportet without…

correct I should have used the word ZOOM …that way one can see the differences made very clear

For best result: Close all visible panels and toolbars on viewport. You can not close top, bottom, left, right docks. Select objects and use "ZOOM S" Export to AI

Tatar…sorry but you are missing the point!

Not quite. Tatar’s workflow will improve accuracy if you export to AI with the “snapshot” option. PDF and probably Illustrator files are made for print and require only resolution up to a certain point. If you try to print a circle with a visible line thickness, it just makes no sense to sample the …

thanks for your explenation…I seem to understand the problem almost, however is there any vector format that can be exported from Rhino that will be as accurate as in Rhino itself? And if yes what would it be? As far as experienced importing a drawing made in Corel or Illustrator is absolutely 1:1 i…

Inaccuracy in exporting of adobe illustrator files

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brian (Brian Gillespie) January 12, 2022, 4:13pm 17

RH-59999 is fixed in the latest WIP

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