leaf Posted July 11, 2013 Posted July 11, 2013 I have many line drawings done on auto cad but need to transfer them and edit (colour fill) these in illustrator. have exported, saved in eps pdf you name it i,ve done it......has anyone or is anyone doing this often? help! why didn't I just do all the drawings in illustrator first ?.......autocad trained for years........illustrator very new to me:oops: Quote
SLW210 Posted July 11, 2013 Posted July 11, 2013 Illustrator should open your drawing file. What version of Illustrator? Quote
leaf Posted July 11, 2013 Author Posted July 11, 2013 thankyou for the quick reply.......i,ve got a trial version so its version 6........ 3 days left! Quote
SLW210 Posted July 11, 2013 Posted July 11, 2013 I have Illustrator CS2 and you have to save the drawing to vers R14 to get them in Illustrator CS2. You might look at Inkscape, it will open a R13 dxf from Autocad and is FREE open source. Quote
f700es Posted July 15, 2013 Posted July 15, 2013 Yeah, I've done this before from time to time. Quote
bbankston Posted September 30, 2013 Posted September 30, 2013 I've done this many times before. I knew Illustrator way before I learned AutoCAD. Quote
Cad64 Posted September 30, 2013 Posted September 30, 2013 i,ve got a trial version so its version 6........ 3 days left! I assume you mean Illustrator CS6? Illustrator 6 was released in 1996. I have Illustrator CS5 and I can open 2007 format dwg's, although I do get a warning about object attributes not being preserved. I can still open the dwg though. 2004 format opens just fine, with no warning messages. Quote
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