.AI import fails

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Hi,

I made this profile in AI CS4 and saved that as Illustrator 3 in order to import the path in Blender.

I get the dialog about dimensions and then have to choose between some profiles (i think) and then get this error on the console

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Frank\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\.blender\scrip
ts\bpymodules\paths_ai2obj.py", line 499, in fonctionSELECT
    scan_FILE(nom)
  File "C:\Users\Frank\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\.blender\scrip
ts\bpymodules\paths_ai2obj.py", line 482, in scan_FILE
    Open_GEOfile(dir,name[0])
  File "C:\Users\Frank\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\.blender\scrip
ts\bpymodules\paths_ai2obj.py", line 216, in Open_GEOfile
    Blender.Load(dir+nom+'OOO.obj', 1)
RuntimeError: there are other scripts running at the Scripts win, close them first!

This happened while I tried to import when the scripts window was active (which showed the LuxRender export script). But if i open the scripts window in another view I get the same error.

I tried both Illustrator 3 and 8.

Any clues?

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As Homer Simpson says “Yeah, it’ll do that.”

Forget .AI import, it does not work, never has for me. Save yourself some time and just use SVG. There are a few illustrator work-flow posts floating around the board, so I won’t re-create it again here. Do some searching.

In illustrator, save your file as a SVG file then use the import SVG portion of Blender to bring your vector work in to Blender.

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Yeah, I just found out SVG did the trick :slight_smile: