Illustrator 24.2.1 Mac - spinning beach ball crash on export to DXF

Question

Using an iMac 2017, 32GB ram, Maxc OS 10.15.5, plenty of hard drive space on primary + scratch drives.

Illustrator 24.2.1

Importing a PS file into AI, tracing a few shapes, and exporting to dxf.

50% of the files I try this with crash Illustrator with a spinning beach ball. AI file is generally in the 150MB range.

Srishti Bali · Answer

Hi there,

Sorry to hear about this trouble. I would request if you could share a few more details like:

Is the issue related to a specific document? If yes, could you please share the document with us? You can upload it to the Creative Cloud (https://helpx.adobe.com/in/creative-cloud/help/share.html) and share the download link.
What is the file size of Illustrator file after you traced the image?
Where the exported files are being saved (Network Drive/ System HDD/ Shared Folder on System /External HDD)?

We're here to help, just need more info.

Regards,

Srishti

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