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jasonlocher
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The way I did it was to open the .eps in illustrator, then use the magic wand tool to delete as much of the background as I could and saved it as a .ai document
Then I used External Referencing to place it in the drawing (learned you can xref a .ai into powercadd 7) to see where the background parts were that I had missed or any other cling-ons. As I changed the drawing in Illustrator, I'd just update the xref's in powercadd to view the changes until it was just right. At that point, I got rid of the xref and placed the .ai directly in the drawing.
Attached is the .ai of a Live Oak - feel free to use it.
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pbacot
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Thanks Jason that's very nice. Now can we get about 10 more of those in different shapes?
I thought this process might end up with polygons. It's still a pdf image in PowerCADD. So there's no way to manipulate or edit in PowerCADD. Can you who have translucency (v. 7) apply that to this object?
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How Goes It
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Here's the PowerCADD 6 file for the car.
You'll have to fix the headlight area.
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pbacot
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Thanks, that is very cool!
So you DO get polygons in PowerCADD and I guess the way to do that is to paste from Illustrator, if you have that.
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How Goes It
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| Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 4:22 pm Post subject: |
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| The PowerCADD car file above, is now scaled properly.
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jasonlocher
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| well that just sucks!
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