Best Way To Include Adobe Illustrator .AI File

DIY_Guy
DIY_Guy
in Importing and exporting files

I've obtained the original Adobe Illustrator file for some custom vinyl wallcovering that will be used in a commercial remodel project.

I'd like to include the graphics from this .AI file on the proposed elevation view of the wall where it will be installed.

Unfortunately, I don't have Adobe Illustrator, otherwise it seems like it would be easy to export it directly from Illustrator to a .DWG format.

I do have a program called Canvas X, that can open the .AI file just fine and it looks exactly as it should when viewed in Canvas X.

Canvas X can also export the file into a .DWG format, but when I open up that exported file in BricsCAD it doesn't look the same. It seems as if all the details are there, but it seems many of the details in the .AI file have for some reason been converted to hatches.


I'm wondering if there is another way to convert this .AI file that may work better. I've tried converting it to an .SVG file using Canvas X and that worked much better, but a lot of the curves got kind of squared off.

Any thoughts on my dilemma here would be appreciated.

Comments

  • David Waight
    David Waight

    @DIY_Guy Does the conversion come out any better if you export the file from Canvas X as a PDF?

    If you are still getting the hatches, have you tried HATCHGENERATEBOUNDARY to rebuild the shapes?

    Could you post the Illustrator file? I'll happily have a look at it for you.