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Im not to sure on the specifics with macs, but if the plugin comes with mac specific instructions follow those.

Dear Dave,

Sounds like an interesting method. Would you like to do a brief tut as I'm not sure I understand the technique.

Thanks,
Bob

John, NO. You should not pay extra for the exporters - practically they are the only difference between Free and Pro.

Unfortunately I'm on a PC (Windows) so I'm a bit stumped here but if you have installed the Pro version onto your computer (and again - install the Pro version!), there should be a place to enter your license info. That's it and no other problems.

Eport a PDF or EPS file from File>Export>2D Graphic. Illustrator can open a PDF file, and the EPS file is identical in content. When you open a SU-generated PDF or EPS in Illustrator, the image is combined into a single entity. I have found that right-clicking on it and selecting "release compound path" will let the individual objects to be edited. I am not an Illustrator expert, so the exact terminology escapes me. Note that the PDF or EPS export has no textures or shadows.

Printing a SU model to PDF with a PDF printer driver like Adobe Acrobat generally produces a raster image file.

Anssi

The image I provided here is very simple. The one's I am really interested in are of French chairs. The Thonet rocker is a classic, but I was working on a simpler "cafe" chair. It has curved braces and other things that join immediately below the seat.

So, somewhere in the process of making the parts, I got something out of line by a fraction of a degree.

I tried: Looking at the whole thing from the front view in parallel projection.

Creating a huge rectangular block that aligned with the center and "pushing" it through the contents I had already made.

I then used "intersect with model to create edges. After erasing all of the excess, I mirrored the "half chair" and "moved" everything back together.

I am getting better at this, but the parts are so close I would think they would snap together.

Thanks,

John D

If you orbit so that you are 'facing' the red-blue plane i.e. looking along the green axis, then it's more likely that the inference engine will pick up the red-blue plane to draw on.

Bob

Thanks. Screen grabs and callouts with SnagIt; you have to use screen grabs or if you want to show any of the SU controls. Edited the final image in Xara because it make sit easy to re-size and shuffle on the page.

Bob