: Smart Object Illustrator-Photoshop doesn't work I am importing a DWG into Adobe Illustrator, saving it there as a .AI, copying by Ctrl + C to Photoshop, inserting it by selecting Smart Object

@Caterina889

Your clipboard preferences in Illustrator need to be set accordingly so that vector data is retained.



Ensure Both PDF and AICB are checked. You may also want to relaunch the apps and possibly reboot the system if you haven't done that. THis is more of a tech support issue because by default you can copy/paste objects from Illustrator as a vector smart object in Photoshop and double-clicking a vector smart object in Photoshop should open the embedded file in Illustrator.

There doesn't appear to be anything wrong with your workflow, but it does sound like things are not operating as they should.

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@Kevin459

Don't use Copy/Paste to insert the file. That just uses the data from the system's clipboard.

Instead, go to Edit > Place to get the file you want.

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