Better eps exports?
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I'm trying to export a sketchup 2d view which has only human figures in it taken from the library
The problem is when I export the eps file in illustrator, it behaves strangely. Even after ungrouping if I delete a line in a say, a lady standing on the left, some portion of a person standing at somewhere else gets deleted.
What is the best way to export a 2d image from sketchup as an eps file?
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Just jimming in that I'd love to know a way around this too. I think the way that SU builds the .eps goes a bit awry when working with say Illustrator,
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What is the best way then to do a Sketchup to illustrator work flow? Via layout, some 3rd party plugin or something?
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Not sure... I've never needed to. What do you do with the stuff in Illustrator? certainly you're not working with vector data for planning in it? If you're doing graphic work I understand. I'm not too familiar with the .eps... is it vector with color and fills? and is that the type of export you're trying to get?
I'd say that inserting your Sketchup model into Layout and then making sure all your models are vector or hybrid, then you could export .PDF and it just might open up with vector/color info in Illustrator.
If you just want vector you could export .dwg from Sketchup and import to Illustrator. I Not too sure about fills though.
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@krisidious said:
Not sure... I've never needed to. What do you do with the stuff in Illustrator? certainly you're not working with vector data for planning in it? If you're doing graphic work I understand. I'm not too familiar with the .eps... is it vector with color and fills? and is that the type of export you're trying to get?
Precisely, that's what eps is. It is a vector linework with fills.
A proper vectoris a say rectangle with pink fill.
Improper vector generated via sketchup is a rectangle with say 0.5 mm line weight. It has no fill, just blank. Within it, there is another rectangle with a pink fill with no lineweight. And they are grouped.
And when there are lot of rectangles, squares and triangles in a sketchup export, there is a disorganized grouping. Say, my fills in a triangle are grouped with the lines of some rectangle located many centimetres away. That's what I am facing.
The reason for not using layout is, I just want a short way from Sketchup to illustrator. Point A to Point B, that's it.
Layout is getting in between
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Have you tried just exporting dwg from Sketchup and working with the fills yourself? I know it's a pain...
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@krisidious said:
Have you tried just exporting dwg from Sketchup and working with the fills yourself? I know it's a pain...
Yes bro. I have done it a lot, opening directly my autocad files that I made on autocad and filling them, same with sketchup dwg exports. But, then this question of mine becomes some paradox, I don't know, can't find the right word to describe this situation 
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Have you tried pdf? Not using illustrator but assumed it might explode pdfs.
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