Comments on: Rendering a 2D Spark Plug Diagram from 3D Components in Illustrator

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:39:50 +0000

Under 3D more options > Set Blend Steps to 1 and Dont check “Render hidden surfaces” – that give much less cleaning up afterwards…

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:56:57 +0000

Additional generic comment

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41 Excellent 3D Adobe Illustrator Tutorials - 68Design — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:43:56 +0000

[...] Rendering a 2-D Spark Plug Diagram from 3D Components in Illustrator This tutorial takes you through building a 3D spark plug from multiple components and then expanding the image into a 2-D vector diagram. [...]

By: Gary Lattke

Gary Lattke — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:34:46 +0000

I’m totally going to implement this on my next design. I have a client that needs mutliple diagrams about Alcohol distillation.

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:46:01 +0000

I do a lot of work similar to this. Frankly I find the process tedious. I wish Adobe would add a cartoon render mode which only draws edges and intersections.

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By: Aamir

Aamir — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:45:23 +0000

hye!

nice tutorial dude!

By: Roy

Roy — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 07:21:08 +0000

very cool..

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40 Useful Adobe Illustrator 3D Tutorials and Techniques — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 02:38:21 +0000

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By: Nacho Cuevas

Nacho Cuevas — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 10:04:09 +0000

wow!