Better Spline Import from CAD

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

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.

[rode3d]

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/