Creating a 3D Wireframe Design In Illustrator

[kimp1023428]

I keep getting directed to Corel Draw for this. I don't have that and don't want it.  I need to make these geometric vector  figures to us one the laser cutter for making custom  3-D lamps. I just need to know if anyone knows the steps to doing this wire frame look that I need. The red is where the laser will cut out the shape.  I can do that part.

Thank you.

[Mylenium]

There are no specific steps. AI has no automated functions for creating such stuff. At best you can exploit the 3D Lathe and Bevel functions and mimic meshes by interpolating paths with blends and custom spines, but other than that this is going to be a lot of hard work to draw from scratch using conventional tools. It's in the nature of the thing - camera projection matrices produce complex curvatures and AI simply has no native 3D features.

Mylenium

[MBorowiec]

I do not know if You have aready those 3d objects or You just to need to create one, but many of 3d software (like open source Blender) have possibility to export SVG file, which automates averything a lot.

In case of blender it will be looks like so: https://docs.blender.org/manual/de/dev/render/freestyle/export_svg.html

[Jongware]

I don't understand what your question is.

Do you need to draw these objects in Illustrator? They are (inherently) vector images, so yes, it is possible. However, it's not easy to draw them from scratch.

Are they originally real 3D models, created with some dedicated 3D design software? In that case, what part are you using Illustrator for? I'm assuming you would somehow export the 3D view from that software as ... well, as something Illustrator can import. (It goes without saying – hopefully – that at that point you'd lose all 3D information, as it would be a flat vector image at that point. Illustrator is not a native 3D application.)

[Ray Yorkshire]

kimp is trying to make one of these to go into a  3d led lamp

   

basically  colured led lights shines up on the laser engraved acrylic/ glass.

and hopefully makes it look 3d in the dark

The image definitively made a 3d program, Blender, Rhino,etc

not illustrator or corel draw

Guess you could cut a corner and use free models provided by manufacturers  etc

Though not sure how they get the wireframe view to show just on the outer  facing surface, and then export just  that as maybe a   2d DFX file

Perhaps the sites that sell these kind of images provide them in Corel draw format for people who want to send it to their cutter from there ?

 

[Monika Gause]

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Ray+Yorkshire  schrieb

The image definitively made a 3d program, Blender, Rhino,etc

not illustrator or corel draw

You couls just take a photo as a reference and then draw the lines. People have been doing it like this for ... ages?

[muds77710463]

Id like to know how to do this in corel draw, do you have any sources for how to do that in corel?

[Monika Gause]

  schrieb

Id like to know how to do this in corel draw, do you have any sources for how to do that in corel?

Get a decent photo and then use the pen tool and draw it.