Hi Steve - MoI currently exports as AI version 8 files, which is kind of a more simple structure before it switched to the PDF structure that is used in newer releases of Illustrator.
The last time I looked, it seemed that the Inkscape importer only supported the new PDF type structure and not the older method, which is kind of too bad since the older method has a rather broader support among various different programs since it is a lot more simple than PDF. For example most 3D modeling programs that support AI format for reading in drawings only support the old pre-PDF AI version.
> also, any chance of pdf export from MoI?
Yeah, I would like to have this eventually, but it is not a particularly easy format to work with, it is going to be a fairly substantial undertaking to make that happen.
Probably I'll be able to do an SVG export before that point, which would likely be the best way to get things into Inkscape. But that will still take enough work for even that part, that I think that is not going to be able to fit into the v2 timeframe though.
One other method you could try right now is to save your curves in a 3DM file, and use this utility:
http://moi3d.com/download/3dmCurves2DXF.zip
To convert it into a DXF file with spline entities in it.
Then there seems to be a dxf2svg converter for Inkscape which maybe would do the trick...
- Michael
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