conversion from Rhino & making 3d into vectorial 2d using Blender

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Hello everyone,

I’ve just dropped Windoze for good and I need to reproduce a task I used to do using Rhino and Illustrator.

I have a 3D model of a “telescreen” which I include in 2d into a hand drawn comic I make (http://1984comic.com).

Now I need to convert the rhino format into something Blender can use, and I need to know if Blender can export a 2d vectorial drawing once I’ve placed it in the appropriate perspective so I can include it in the comic.

Any help, clue as what can and can’t be done would be very much appreciated.

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Blender imports .obj format well, so you can export your model from Rhino as a wavefron obj,

As for ilustrator… Blender can import paths in numerous formats (.svg) It works preety ok with Inkscape but I didn’t test it too hard.
I don’t know if ilustrator savers as .svg, or anything that Blender supports. But it’s quite possible it will.

You can look for scripts too. Maybe there is something you would use.

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Thanks for the lead, I’ve passed on the info to a friend so he can make the conversion (I’ve gotten rid of windows now).

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I’ve got the file in .obj but Blender gives me an error message when I try to load it, it tells me it’s not a Blender file.

I simply opened the file from within Blender running on Ubuntu… are you sure about the .obj file type?

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Try to import .obj instead of using open.