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I have Cinema 4D, Photoshop and Inkscape. I have a bunch of vector graphics stuff in Inkscape that I would like to bring in as vectors into Cinema 4D to make 3D objects. I have found tutorials that talk about using Photoshop to create an Adobe Illustrator *.ai file. If I make a path in Photoshop and save as an ai file I can import into Cinema 4D and it works. My problem is that if I import the Inkscape SVG file it comes in as a bitmap and I have retrace the image to create the path. That would be a lot of retracing.

I got uniconvertor and installed it via the "sudo python setup.py install". If I use the command line to attempt to convert nothing happens. If I look for help "uniconvertor --help" nothing happens. No error no output. Inkscape seems to use it because now I do not get errors when I did before it was installed. But it really doesn't seem to be working.

So, my ultimate question is how can I take my Inkscape vector drawings and get them into Cinema 4D as a vector to make 3D objects of them (suspect being able to somehow convert to Adobe Illustrator ai file in the middle but don't know)?

Vertexwahn
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I use a tool called VectorMagic (http://vectormagic.com/home) it will take any image and convert it to EPS, SVG, PDF, AI, DXF and EMF. Works seamlessly with Illustrator, Corel, and others.

Johnny
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You can convert your SVG file from SVG to AI using Convertio

Inkscape to C4D

In the above example, the captions (length and wingWid) were lost, but it is still acceptable for me. I am not sure why the text is lost.

Ross
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