[resolved] Help With Adobe Illustrator Paths In 3dsmax

[chrisparton1991]

Hi everyone, this is my first post on this forum. I just joined up about 2 minutes ago and as you'll shortly see I have essentially no experience with 3ds max.

I've made a few paths in Photoshop and exported them to Illustrator format to be brought into 3DSMax and turned into a 3d model. I've imported them in and I have enough basic knowledge to extrude a path using the extrude modifier. What I want to know is if there is some way I can delete part of the model or mesh or NURBS or whatever lol (see, noob) using another path (I have one ready) or otherwise. The image below might give you a better idea. Image 1 is the base path extruded. Image 2 is my desired result (crudely photoshopped). Basically I want that crest surface to be an outline.

Is this possible?

Thanks in advance,
Chris

[joojaa]

Expand the path in illustrator, this makes it the outline shape you see on the screen

[chrisparton1991]

QUOTE(Joojaa @ 05/22/09, 10:16 PM) [snapback]308176[/snapback]
Expand the path in illustrator, this makes it the outline shape you see on the screen

Hey, thanks but it still didn't allow me to extrude it into an outline... Maybe i'm just not getting it though.

[chrisparton1991]

I just figured out how to do it. I had to make a subpath of the inside of the crest that I wanted to cut out, then import the path and subpath as a single object.

Thanks for the help though