Trouble Importing .ai file

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hello all

i recently… (just a minute ago) tried importing an illustrator ai file. i have done this before with blender 2.45 and it works fine… however now i’m getting a console error… which to me is fairly greek. i looked over the forum and cant find anyone with the same problem

  1. could anyone tell me what this means?
    and 2. how to fix my issue if possible. :wink:

it must be something ive done to mess it up… however i don’t recall changing anything.

im using blender 2.48a.

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Try exporting an SVG file from Illustrator and then import into Blender. The .ai import script is buggy.

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the SVG import has a similar console error… actually all the path imports have a similar error.

looks like blender doesn’t want to be bothered with paths today

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Check your .blender\scripts\bpymodules folder and make sure the scripts it’s looking for (in your case gimp2obj.py and ai2obj.py) are there.

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ok… i uninstalled blender and re-downloaded the installer… i noticed a few things

  1. the import works again after the re-install
  2. after install there are no subfolders in the blender directory
    the full regular install just leaves me with this C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender

i manually added a scripts folder last time and added a bunch of script .py files from blender.org. and to get the geodesic script to work i had to manualy add a bpymodules folder within the scripts folder. which is what i assume may have messed up the import ai script.

so how is it that i can import an .ai file when there is NO scripts folder and no scripts???
but when there IS a folder with a bunch of .py scripts it messes up the import,

yes obviously i messed it up when i added all the scripts… somehow… <shoots self up nostrils>… <both barrels>

now i have to figure a way of putting back all those scripts without messing up the .ai import again.

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OMG… lol… i think i figured it out… its 50% me being an idiot and 50% the wording of the installer…

i was using the application data directory for my blender data… meaning users/ app data… etc… but what i want is to use the install directory. c:/program files/blender foundation/blender

i just reinstalled using that option and it wrote a bunch of subfolders where they should be.

LOL… im glad im not 100% an idiot… or i would never have figured that out… maybe someone should write a little more info as to what it means when you choose your blender data location. something like ( “this is the folder that blender will place all of your SCRIPTS etc” and if you manually create these folders elsewhere prepare for grief! )

seeing as a lot of people refer to those folder locations in their replies… might make some sense

<rolls eyes>

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but thanks Skwerm. your reply set me on the road to recovery :wink: