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Error importing Adobe Illustrator file into H14

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Grayson Mendenhall
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Hey all. I'm new to Houdini and I'm trying to import an Illustrator file to extrude in Houdini.

All of my paths are closed. I don't have any fonts, pixels, or gradients.

I still can't get the FileSOP to import my splines. I've tried a number of different solutions that I've found here on the forums, but it still won't show up in H14.

Check my .ai file below and if you have any advice for me, I'd appreciate it.

Thanks!

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H14_splines.ai (1.6 MB)

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I can't get this to load in 14 or 15…

can you make a very simple example ai file and try again - or attach it here?
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Grayson Mendenhall
Hey all. I'm new to Houdini and I'm trying to import an Illustrator file to extrude in Houdini.

All of my paths are closed. I don't have any fonts, pixels, or gradients.

I still can't get the FileSOP to import my splines. I've tried a number of different solutions that I've found here on the forums, but it still won't show up in H14.

Check my .ai file below and if you have any advice for me, I'd appreciate it.
Have you tried exporting it as an .eps file from Illustrator? Houdini can read EPS files, but not Illustrator files directly.
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Like Halfdan said, save as Illustrator EPS. See attached screen shots.

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I'll try it again as an Illustrator 8 .eps and let you all know what happens.

Thanks a lot for your quick feedback!!!
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Grayson Mendenhall
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Hmmm…

I tried importing it as an Illustrator 8 .eps file as just like in the above examples. It still won't show up. In fact, I just get the error message on the FILE node.

Hey Andy 58, did you do anything else to get it to import? I'm using H14, BTW.
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Grayson Mendenhall
…Hey Andy 58, did you do anything else to get it to import? I'm using H14, BTW.
Nope. Just tried it with 14.0.444. Simply dropped down a geo node and pointed the file SOP to the illustrator EPS. Btw, if your viewport background is set to ‘Dark’ try to change it to something else. FWIW, with this file only some primitives show as selected, others display black.

Good luck,
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