joining splines

[jonpdrew]

Hi All,

I have brought in a 2D profile of a 3D drawing from AutoCAD by way of copy and paste. Most of my curves in AutoCAD ended up being splines and they are the same in illustrator. I can't seem to join the splines like I would a normal line that resides in illustrator and I need to put fills in. Is there another technique I can use to fill? Any help is appreciated, and I'm running Illustrator 10 on Win XP

Jon

 

[jmgalvin]

You might try saving the Autocad drawing in DXF format and then using the Ill Place or Open command.

 

[jonpdrew]

Thanks, I think that may have done the trick. I created a 3d torus in CAD for a test, turned it into a 2d isometric and saved it out as a dxf. I used the place command in illustrator and things were quite a bit more complete. I's say it cut down on individual segments by 90% and it's about as close to perfect as I will get. Thanks again, you probably helped to shave a a few hours off of my illustration time.

Jon

 

[yoderman94]

you can use the lasso tools to select points and then ctrl+j to join them.