Problem with autocad PDF in Illustrator

[BenGoble]

Hello!
I'm very new to Ai but I'm a super experienced in AutoCAD. I've produced an image and since the colours seem awful in AutoCAD I've decided to have a go in AI but when I'm selecting the red area, which I'd like to recolour, it appears to be triangulated sections, which would be fine but after recolouring there are red edges left over which I'm finding difficult to remove as it isn't a stroke, and I'm lost as to what to do about them!

Any help would be much appreciated.

 

[eugenetyson]

Going by the Red and Green box on the top right, it looks like the Red is beneath the green boxes. But instead putting in a green rectangle they used green triangles.

I believe you're looking at the Red beneath where the edges of the Green triangles don't marry up.

http://www.doozler.blogspot.com/

 

[apepp]

...it;s possible that what your seeing is really so small and fine that it would never be visible on printed output, your screen view indicates 2400%...

...the only sure way is to dig into the layers palette and inspect elements below the red sections you are trying to color...

...also, illustrator can sometimes deceive the eye due to anti-aliasing, if you turn off anti-aliasing off in the preferences (under the general section), click ok...

...if the artwork renders without these fine lines, then chances are they aren't really there...

...anyway, determining that your view is at 2400%, i very much doubt your printer will output what you are seeing...

andrew

 

[apepp]

...also to add, if you are really concerned by it then to be ultra perfect you can select the green or red triangles, then try using the pathfinder palette "unite function", if they don't join together as one shape then they aren't close enough and there really is a very fine gap...

...but i believe this is more a screen render issue, as at certain magnifications you can see what appear to be gaps on objects that are actually perfectly side-by-side...

andrew

 

[apepp]

...another thing to add, is you can quickly select same color objects under the select menu, then recolor...

...or you can use the edit > edit colors > recolor artwork and target colors that aren't "global" colors and change them, even make them into pantone spot colors...

andrew

 

[apepp]

...for further info...

...global colors in the swatches palette have a white triangle in the bottom right hand corner. When a color is "global" and applied to an object, you double click the global color in the swatches palette and change the values, any objects that use that "global" color change on-the-fly...

andrew