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Better Spline Import from CAD

Better Spline Import from CAD

When importing artwork from Illustrator or Autocad, the resulting spline is horrible to work with owing to the number of vertices. None of the import options fix this problem. Personally i use a commercial script to improve the spline, but this doesnt make sense. Autocad & 3dsmax come from the same company - so they should be able to get this connection working better. A simple shape requiring no more than 20 vertices can import with 300,000 vertices. The import process needs to recognise the arcs/curves and translate them into beziers or whatever else makes for a more efficient translation of a non-linear piece of linework.

4 Comments
leochester
Advocate

admittedly, you can use the normalize spline modifier to do some pretty good clean-up on splines ...... but still.........would be good if we could import curved splines more efficiently

tricotalazan
Contributor

Autocad Spline is Nurbs Curve, thats why have some troubles to import it, and create thousands vertex to recreate it.

 

Agree, they should be a better or optimized solution than creating thousands of vertex to recreate it.

Kelly_Michels
Autodesk
Status changed to: Future Consideration
 
rode3d
Participant

Here's a great script for cleaning and managing multiple splines. It's ideal to reduce the number of vertices and optimize vector curves imported from CAD or vector software.

 

Spline Cleaner: http://www.splinedynamics.com/spline-cleaner/

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