topic Re: Export City Engine Model as SVG to Illustrator in ArcGIS CityEngine Questions

Export City Engine Model as SVG to Illustrator

JugalPatel — Mon, 19 Sep 2016 18:19:10 GMT

Has anyone been able to accomplish this? I'm working on exporting a snapshot of a cityengine model, so that it can be annotated in Adobe Illustrator.

Re: Export City Engine Model as SVG to Illustrator

CherylLau — Thu, 10 Nov 2016 09:22:46 GMT

No, there is no export to SVG available. You can take a screenshot of the viewport and save it in a raster graphics format (like png, jpg, tif) but not in a vector graphics format like svg. You can import the raster graphics format into Illustrator too. Click on the arrow next to the icon with the star in the Viewport's toolbar -> Save Snapshot.

Re: Export City Engine Model as SVG to Illustrator

LR — Thu, 10 Nov 2016 15:54:09 GMT

If your scene is pretty simple you can save a high res screenshot (quadruple you view resolution in the snapshot window or go even higher if you can) and live trace it in illustrator to get vectors.

Re: Export City Engine Model as SVG to Illustrator

DevinLavigne — Sat, 12 Nov 2016 21:59:47 GMT

What kind of annotations are you looking to add? I do this all the time - and CLau-esristaff is right - either use a snapshot from CityEngine, or an export to a rendering program - either way place your raster image and label on top of it in Illustrator. You shouldn't need a vector image. You just need to make sure the resolution of your export is high enough to give you a nice image in illustrator - shoot for a minimum of 300dpi.