Michael,

I was doodling around tonight in MoI and suddenly thought how an illustrator could probably really make good use of MoI. So I checked the export options and sure enough, Illustrator .ai was already in the list. So I exported my model as .ai and loaded it into Illustrator CS4. It worked great except for three things:

- every line was a separate Illustrator path.
- all "hidden" lines were present.
- Around curved edges, it sometimes does not generate the "silhouette" line

It turns out that with the "Live Paint" feature of recent Illustrator versions, the first item is not really a problem. However, the second one was fairly painful. I've attached a few screen shots, one from MoI, one from Illustrator after using Live Paint, and one from Photoshop after I painstakingly "painted out" all of the hidden lines after saving out the finished Illustrator image.

The third issue is somewhat minor, but would be better if it could be fixed.

So I was wondering if it would be possible to add an "Eliminate hidden lines" option in the Illustrator export dialog? Or maybe even better would be to allow selecting a line style for hidden lines (e.g. dashed, none, ...). Just a thought...