Though Solidworks has a PDF, EPS and AI export feature, it rasterizes it first before converting, so it comes over like a digital camera image as one big bitmap blob. I found I can convert it to a smart paint object, but that is not really ideal and will take a lot of time to redo. They can send me a DXF format, which comes over as vector data, but it loses all color, shading, and each little line segment and curve is a discreet object. I need to get this image into Illustrator CS4 (Mac platform) in vector format so I can change the colors. Solidworks creates color, shading and does a nice job, but the colors are ugly and apparently cannot be changed inside Solidworks. looking like a miniature version of them I know this answer was late in coming but may save some poor soul a long and frustrating search for a solution.A customer has Solidworks 2010 (3-D CAD program) and created a complicated 3D model that he wants to use in a brochure. If, rather that hitting D you prefer to click on an icon you can find it nested in the lower-left corner of your tool bar as part of the 'Fill' and 'Stroke' icons area.

Instead, if you have drawn something in 3D unless you hit 'D' (to change from 'Default Stroke and Fill' you are fated to remain (forever) in 3D mode until you start another file. You turn 'Perspective' off or on by Ctrl-Shift l not '3D mode'. And just to clarify, it has nothing to do with turning 'perspective' off or on - perspective is another function entirely, a distinction seemingly lost on a good many. The good news is it simply involves a 'toggle' action. I had the same problem and it certainly wasn't answered by reading any number of posts on Google (including those that followed your initial enquiry) but I finally stumbled on the answer through a lengthy process of personal trial and error.

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