How can I make my CADdrawing workable in graphic programs?

[shmoon64]

Hi. I'm using Autocad 2000. I'm doing 3D work and trying to export it to photoshop or illustrator and have a few questions in regarding to that.

1.How can I make it easier to draw 3D from 2D? Right now, I do 2D,copy them to "Z" direction and build elevation.And use 3DFACE commmand. Make it solid and Hide command, move them around to get a right view for me.

2.I was able to open .wmf in Illustrator 8.0. (unable to open bmp.)Can I open Cad drawing in Photoshop or is there any other better program for me to render with CAD drawing? I'm planning to scan my painting to paste them on 3D drawing.

3.Is Vectorwork better program for me or any suggestion?


Thanks in advance.

[YosSa]

there are special add-ons for 3D drawing work ...
But the way you do it is just fine.

You can give a face an material and then you can render it to a wmf file or jpg and open it in photoshop.
If you export it to wmf, you can insert it to coreldraw and edit it ...

[architech]

Dude,
YosSa is right. :wink:
Here are my 2 cents ...

1.
3D face is fine or extrude from 2D polygons.
By the way, look into "solprof".

2.
No, you can't open DWGs in Photoshop. But after mapping materials and texture to your DWG model, you can export the rendering to a JPEG. And then open that in Photoshop and touch it up.

3.
Vectorworks is a great program and more user friendly than AutoCAD. If you look up articles on which is the better software ... vectorworks seems to be favored more. I'm still an AutoCAD fan & remember AutoCAD tends to be an industry standard.

later guy. 8)