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MarkL
15th Mar 2006, 11:22 pm
No matter how I create "holes" in Illustrator CS (XP Pro, SP2) -- Compound Path, Subtract, Intersect, Exclude, etc -- then Export as AutoCAD .DWGs, they are always filled (that is, no longer transparent) when opened in ACAD.
This SHOULD be possible, shouldn't it?
Any Ideas?
[PS When I do the same thing from CorelDraw 12, all's well.]
Cheers,
MarkL
f700es
16th Mar 2006, 01:34 am
No matter how I create "holes" in Illustrator CS (XP Pro, SP2) -- Compound Path, Subtract, Intersect, Exclude, etc -- then Export as AutoCAD .DWGs, they are always filled (that is, no longer transparent) when opened in ACAD.
This SHOULD be possible, shouldn't it?
Any Ideas?
[PS When I do the same thing from CorelDraw 12, all's well.]
Cheers,
MarkL

Well, it worked for me. I made a circle in Illustrator 10 and then made a smaller one inside it and subtracted it from the larger one. Then exported to .dwg and opened in AutoCAD 2004 and it looks OK.