Well Danny and Michael:

Very thank you for your explanation and the great video.
Finally, I have learned the sense of the Flat option.
Thank you again. :-)

Hi Michael,

first - excellent work -

I encountered a small Problem when exporting to ai.
MoI is messing up the scaling: draw a line in MoI (10mm) -> export to ai. and now it´s 70,556mm long?

hope you can fix this, since I need do this a lot of times in the next two weeks, and don´t want to rescale it each time in AI.

Hello Thiloo,

In the AI Export dialog, uncheck the "Fit to page" option.

yes, I know and did this and the scaling is wrong.
when exporting to other formats (skp, obj) everything is fine, but to ai...

Hi Thiloo,

Before exporting, try setting your units to millimeters in the option panel.

Marc

Hi tfb,

> I encountered a small Problem when exporting to ai.
> MoI is messing up the scaling: draw a line in MoI (10mm)
> -> export to ai. and now it´s 70,556mm long?

I'll need a bit more information to really understand - into which program are you importing the AI file where you see it as 70.556mm long?

Like others mentioned, make sure you have set your units to mm in MoI, and uncheck the "Fit to page" option at export time.

You also may need to make sure your receiving application is set to have units = mm before importing the AI file - coordinates are actually stored in an AI file in "points" units where 1 point = 1/72 of an inch. The receiving application needs to be told to convert from points into some other units - there may be some specific option for this or you may need to make sure to set your unit system in the other application to mm before the import in order for it to match.

I just tested the export with a few different 3D and 2D programs and could not reproduce any problem, as long as the appropriate unit scaling mechanism was used on the receiving program - going into Rhino, ViaCAD, Mayura Draw, and Expression all preserved scale correctly, as long as "Fit to page" was turned off at export time from MoI.

I'll need to know more details about your receiving application and what options you have set in it.

- Michael

hi Michael,

I´m realy confused now - problem disappeared!
I cant even reproduce it anymore??

So: I´m working in MoI (units meter)
before export to ai, I changed units to mm - now I have a line lenght 10mm
export to ai (uncheck fit to page)
open in Illustrator CS3 (units mm)
-> wrong length! (line lenght: 70,556mm or 200pt) open in InDesgin all the same
so in MoI I found the decimal display is set to maximum - not much sense with mm, so I changed to 0,0!
export again: and everything is fine now! even when I change back, it´s stil working like expected now.
but changing the decimal display can´t have an permanent effect on export to ai, right?

anyway, all fine now - I´m happy
thanks for the concern and help
sorry for the trouble

thilo

Hi thilo, no problem, I'm glad it is working for you now anyway!

Yeah, changing the decimal display should not have any effect on AI export, it only controls how numbers are displayed in MoI's UI.

- Michael