Can someone tell me what the best way is to import AutoCAD drawings into Photoshop or Illustrator? It's pretty confusing, cause one instructor tells you to make bitmaps or jpegs and import it to Photoshop, others tell you to make an eps file and import it into Photoshop.
Also everyone has a different approach towards making (single) presentation sheets. Do you make it in Photoshop, Illustrator or Indesign. As what I have seen, you can do it in all three programs.
all you have to do is highlight all your lines in autoCAD, copy from the pulldown and go to illustrator and use paste from the pull down. the lines go into illustrator as lines still and can be edited, you do all your line weights in here. i make my sheets in illustrator if they have text or vector based info, photshop for images, and in design for multiple pages or more layout-ish type stuff
you really want to avoid importing vector based work into photoshop. i find that printing to file in AutoCAD, then opening that file in illustrator works best for me. by using this method you retain the line weights established in autoCAD. you can also scale without losing quality while retaining proportional line weights
install a postscript level 2 printer in autocad and print to a file, but first configure the printer to output at 5080 x 5080 dpi so the postscript file is at a high resolution. trust me the lines turn out soooo smooth it's like buttah! then open with photoshop. voila!
i guess you want something to jpeg...if that's what you want..
plot it 'as file' as *.eps. from cad
open the eps with photoshop (usually in grey scale, size to be decided by you)
add another white color layer then use it as the background of the line drawing
then do whatever u want to it w/ photoshop. enjoy...
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How do you import Autocad files into Photshop or Illustrator?
Can someone tell me what the best way is to import AutoCAD drawings into Photoshop or Illustrator? It's pretty confusing, cause one instructor tells you to make bitmaps or jpegs and import it to Photoshop, others tell you to make an eps file and import it into Photoshop.
Also everyone has a different approach towards making (single) presentation sheets. Do you make it in Photoshop, Illustrator or Indesign. As what I have seen, you can do it in all three programs.
all you have to do is highlight all your lines in autoCAD, copy from the pulldown and go to illustrator and use paste from the pull down. the lines go into illustrator as lines still and can be edited, you do all your line weights in here. i make my sheets in illustrator if they have text or vector based info, photshop for images, and in design for multiple pages or more layout-ish type stuff
you really want to avoid importing vector based work into photoshop. i find that printing to file in AutoCAD, then opening that file in illustrator works best for me. by using this method you retain the line weights established in autoCAD. you can also scale without losing quality while retaining proportional line weights
try this thread:
export
just make sure that when you raster your drawing that you do it at 300dpi
or higher, depending on how large you'll be printing.
You should also be able to open the dwg file in Illustrator and you can copy and paste between them.
export as .wmf (windows meta-file) to freehand!!!!
install a postscript level 2 printer in autocad and print to a file, but first configure the printer to output at 5080 x 5080 dpi so the postscript file is at a high resolution. trust me the lines turn out soooo smooth it's like buttah! then open with photoshop. voila!
it isn't difficult. save them as a .dxf and then open them in autocad
i mean open them in illustrator
i guess you want something to jpeg...if that's what you want..
plot it 'as file' as *.eps. from cad
open the eps with photoshop (usually in grey scale, size to be decided by you)
add another white color layer then use it as the background of the line drawing
then do whatever u want to it w/ photoshop. enjoy...
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