Will saving as .obj be available in Illustrator?

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Hi everyone.

As Photoshop announced that they will gradually discontinue 3D after the 22.5 update, I want to know if it will be made available to us to save 3D objects from Illustrator with the same ending, that is .obj or even .stl

I am not willing to pay extra $39 a month to use Substance 3D just to create simple shapes to add into Dimension. If maybe someone knows of another way to create custom 3D shapes to add into Dimension that wouldn't cost extra, would be greatly appreciated. Or maybe if there is a way to save it already from Illustrator to use directly in Dimension that I'm missing...?

Thank you very much for your time.

Doug A Roberts · Accepted Answer

If you apply the new 3D settings to an object, you can export it as OBJ via the asset export panel:

Test Screen Name · Answer

I have no inside knowledge, so I'm free to speculate. This seems vanishingly unlikely. It seems to me that 3D was removed from Photoshop to encourage people to migrate to Substance 3D. So, the last thing that would serve that plan is to put 3D features into Illustrator. (Planning conference... "What's the business justification for OBJ export in Illustrator?", "It saves people from needing to subscribe to Substance 3D", "So our the aim of this feature is to reduce revenue to Adobe?", [long silence])

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