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Re: Importing Illustrator 3 files doesn 't retain proper scale in SM

Re: Importing Illustrator 3 files doesn 't retain proper scale in SM

2003-12-06       - By pmiinalainen

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Too close to be coincidence? Maybe it's metric to inch conversion
combined with a rounding error...

petteri

--- In Carrara@(protected), "eric3ddd" <eric3ddd@(protected)> wrote:
> I don't think it's a metric to inch conversion, because the
scaling is exactly 250% (2.5)
> instead of 254% (2.54).
>
> My workaround is to do all my illustrator work at actual size in
Illustrator 10. Then I
> copy the paths I need in a new document and scale them 40%
(1/2.5=0.4) and save
> the new doc in Illustrator 5 format. Then I import that new
document in the Spline
> modeler.
>
> Eric D
>
> --- In Carrara@(protected), Thomas Stump <thomas.stump@(protected)>
wrote:
> > hee hee...just kidding, but I've noticed that my conversions are
also
> > dangerously close to a factor of 2.54 something...as in 2.54
> > something centimeters being equal to one inch.


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