Editing an Imported Illustrator file

[mrumaner]

Hope someone may be able to help me.

I've uploaded and opened a simple line drawing done in Illustrator (Mac) to Fusion 360. I can see the artwork as a blue outlined piece of art in the Fusion window. I can click on it and rotate and move it. I want to extrude it but it will not let me. I thought that maybe it needed it to be a solid shape so I saved the file as a solid filled shape and it imported in as an outline as well. I am fairly new to Fusion 360 so I am not sure if it is possible to extrude an Illustrator file or if there is something simple I am not doing when saving or something I need to do once I open the file in 360.

Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

[LMD001 · Accepted solution]

Hello mrumaner,

Welcome to the community.

You can try this:

Make your line drawing in ILL.

Export as SVG from ILL.

Then Insert this SVG in Fusion 360 as shown above.

You should be able to extrude these profiles.

If the profile is not closed (not amber shaded) then some cleanup may be necessary.

A very complicated SVG will cause some significant lag while manipulating.

Here is a little Screencast: http://autode.sk/1M3ZmfI

Hope is of any help and please let me know if you have additional questions.

Best regards,

Ludo

[PhilProcarioJr]

Any chance you could share the file or take a screen cap?

[mrumaner]

Ludo,

Thank you kindly for the reply and istructions, I greatly appreciate it. That has gotten me one step closer as I was able to insert the .svg file and extrude it. Now the issue is the file is coming in much larger than the original illustrator file. I have searched for how to solve for this so that the .svg file inserts at a 1:1 ratio but have not found the proper answer yet. I will keep looking and playing with settings later today (ned to go to work). I am really enjoying learning this software but it is confusing at times for a beginner. So thank you again for your help.

[mrumaner]

Hi Phil, thank you for responding. I just replied to Ludo (comment before yours) that I am now able to get the file to insert and extrude but it is inserting at a larger size than the original. Later today I will search the forums and other sources for how to solve for this. However, I would be thrilled it you have a quick solution for solving this so the file inserts at 100% of size. It probably is something very simple that I am missing or missed when I was looking at some of the online tutorials. Thank you again for responding. 

[mrumaner]

Hi Phil, thank you for responding. I just replied to Ludo (comment before yours) that I am now able to get the file to insert and extrude but it is inserting at a larger size than the original. Later today I will search the forums and other sources for how to solve for this. However, I would be thrilled it you have a quick solution for solving this so the file inserts at 100% of size. It probably is something very simple that I am missing or missed when I was looking at some of the online tutorials. Thank you again for responding.

[HughesTooling · Accepted solution]

The second post on this page might help with your scale problem.

SVG Scale.

Mark

Edit also post 3 in this thread. #3

[mrumaner]

Mark, thank you kindly. I will try this later today and reply back. Much appreciated.

[mrumaner]

Mark,
Thank you, #3 link worked perfectly. I was able to import and scale and extrude the artwork. Very excited that this worked and was such a simple solution. You rock!!

Marc