Error occurred while processing the appearance of an object (using new 3D effects)

[adrianas64497248]

So I'm trying out the new 3D options in Illustrator (Tech. preview) and all I am getting is the error:

"An error occurred while processing the appearance of an object"

As you can see the object is just a rectangle.

Is there something I'm not doing correctly?

Dave

[adrianas64497248]

It looks like I found a solve for this in the feedback section of the Tech Preview.

It seems that I needed to change my Colour Settings (Edit > Colour Settings) to anything else - it was set as Emulate Illustrator 6

[peters81142104]

I was going crazy trying to figure why AI was having this issue...thanks for figuring ot a fix!!

[wuxiangwei]

I still have this problem after changing color setting, please help

[NestorKRS]

Hi There,
I'm not sure if it's still helpful for someone, but it looks like the problem is  if your shape is Compound path.
I suppose, it's hard to calculate 3D with this. (if not impossible 🙂
I had the same problem, and it's gone when I just grouped shapes instead of merging with Path-Finder.
Hope it helps