Comments on: How To: Explaining the Illustrator 3D Filter

By: kat

kat — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:12:34 +0000

Thanks so much! I had never made a sphere before. Your tutorial worked like a charm!

By: Danielle

Danielle — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:02:54 +0000

Hi, I am trying to rotate a medical symbol within a circle. I want to rotate it slightly then save then rotate slightly more and save, then combine all the motions in image ready to make it an animated gif.

I am having trouble rotating it with the correct axis.
Ho do I do this any ideas?

The logo is on the homepage, http://www.planetvet.com I want it to look like the medical symbol is rotating in circles.
That make sense.?
PLEASE HELP!!

By: Creative World

Creative World — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 04:58:29 +0000

Kyle - Try going Object > Expand to convert the rendered graphic to editable paths.

By: Lilli

Lilli — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 11:34:20 +0000

I have text, that I want to transfor into a 3d shape. Converted the text to paths and did the effect. I was wondering why Illustrator (CS) makes ugly lines to some corners on the shape, for example the inside corner of a capital A.

And how will these effects work on a pdf and print?

By: Herschel

Herschel — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 19:01:10 +0000

THANKS!! I’m new to the tool and not a graphic person.. was trying to do something I thought was simple.. this was a great help!

By: Sara Froehlich

Sara Froehlich — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 16:01:46 +0000

I am really glad to hear you figured it out…I tried last night to duplicate the problem and so far was having no luck! Have you tired with nothing but Illustrator open, and a huge swap file (set you swap disk to a drive with loads of space)? Go to the preferences and choose Plug-ins and Scratch Disk and change teh scratch disk settings. You might be able to skate by that way.

Sara

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 04:59:33 +0000

I think I figured it out. I only have 248MB RAM, so Illustrator can’t render a sphere. Time to upgrade!

By: Robert

Robert — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 19:29:45 +0000

Sara,

Thanks for writing the tutorial - very helpful.

I followed all of the steps you described, then clicked on OK in the 3D Revolve Options window, and … nothing happened. For some reason Illustrator isn’t rotating the semicircle into a sphere. What am I doing wrong?

Robert

By: Kyle

Kyle — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 14:47:52 +0000

Just curious if there is a way to then turn the rotated object into an editable thing. Since I use Photoshop a lot I’ll draw from that as an example.

If I create layer styles, I can then turn the layer into the actual style that I made so that it is no longer the base graphic with the styles on top of it.

In my illustrator case, I used the filter to make a perspective wall out of a group of objects. I now want the objects to take on the visual shape they have so I can copy and mirror them to the other side of the graphic.