I'm both an engineer with a lot of experience, and a designer (sort of like a duck-billed platypus), but have zero experience with Solidworks.
I saw some info on the internet from a company called 3DVision (I believe they are a SolidWorks reseller) and they confirmed that AI and other exports from SW convert to bitmap before putting it into the desired file format.The only thing that has come close to working is DXF format. I'll see if they can save a view of the 3D model as an EPS. I was quite surprised at that when I received their filesI have asked them to look for export options under each export model, but so far no luck.
The same thing happens with AI, PS and PDF export. Solidworks appears to have taken a snapshot and made it into bitmap before creating the EPS. We tried a straight export to EPS, but crazy as it sounds, I received a rasterized file. That won't work.ĭoes anyone know how to export a full color vector based image from solidworks, and them import it into Illustrator so I can retain shading, etc, and just change the colors? Though Solidworks has a PDF, EPS and AI export feature, it rasterizes it first before converting, so it comes over like a digital camera image as one big bitmap blob. I found I can convert it to a smart paint object, but that is not really ideal and will take a lot of time to redo. They can send me a DXF format, which comes over as vector data, but it loses all color, shading, and each little line segment and curve is a discreet object. I need to get this image into Illustrator CS4 (Mac platform) in vector format so I can change the colors. Solidworks creates color, shading and does a nice job, but the colors are ugly and apparently cannot be changed inside Solidworks. A customer has Solidworks 2010 (3-D CAD program) and created a complicated 3D model that he wants to use in a brochure.
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