Importing Silhouette projects into Mocha

#1

Hi Mary!

Having an issue here importing .sfx files into Mocha.

When using “Import Shapes…” with an .sfx file I am getting the layer names without any spline data.

I have tried “baking” the shapes in Silhouette first by exporting them as as .ssf and then re-importing them into Silhouette. This gets the splines into Mocha, but they seem to be corrupted.

Any ideas on what else I can try?

Thanks,

Dave

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#2

Oh, weird, you’re going to have to send me that SFX file to test because I am unsure of why this is becoming corrupted. Email me at maryp at borisfx dot com.

Cheers,
Mary

#3

Was this ever resolved? I’m trying to import from Silhouette 2020.5.2 into Mocha 2020.5.2 and I just see the empty folders for each layer and no splines. In Silhouette the project starts at frame 1001 and I matched the same start frame in Mocha but no luck.

#4

I am going to tag @Martinb and see.

#5

Wow thank you for the quick reply. I will email you the file now.

#6

The Silhouette file you sent me is empty, so that might be the problem.

#7

Hi Danny, there are a few limitations for the SFX import into Mocha:

  • B-splines are not supported. Only X-Splines and Beziers can be used
  • Nested layers beyond a single level are not supported

In your screengrab, it looks like you are solely using B-Splines, which is why it is probably not working.
We have a feature request to add B-spline support in a later version but don’t support it yet.

Looking at the documentation it appears we don’t mention this, which is an error on my part. I’ll make sure it’s documented next time.