I keep hitting the same workflow tax: Rhino Make2D gives clean linework, but it comes out flat and uniform, so I re-weight cut / profile / hidden by hand after every revision. I started a small, free, open-source tool to do it deterministically.
What it does
- Takes a Make2D export (.ai / PDF), buckets strokes by color, and assigns architectural line weights (cut / profile / hidden) from a preset - same result every run.
- Adds solid-black poché on cut layers.
Where it’s at (honest - early WIP, Day 1 of building this in public)
- Works on PDF-based .ai / PDF exports.
- Known limit I just found dogfooding: legacy PostScript .ai exports aren’t read yet - re-save them “PDF Compatible” in Illustrator (File → Save As) first. A clearer error for that case is my next fix.
- Not packaged on Food4Rhino yet; I’ll publish there once it’s past the rough edges.
If you produce drawing sets in Rhino (+ Illustrator), I’d really value feedback: which export paths and conventions should it handle, and what breaks on your files? I’ll add real cases to the test set.
