Illustrator CS4 makes invisible open paths with the 3D tools. We need a close paths feature.

Illustrator CS4 (mine is for Windows) is faulty in the 3D effect tools because of the invisible open paths it creates upon saving as EPS (or expanding the appearance). This is very dissapointing.  My only hope of correcting this that is a free plugin and script that may or not be created by Graffix. Adobe probably can do this. : (
I also had this problem in CS.

Illustrator CS4 (mine is for Windows) is faulty in the 3D effect tools because of the invisible open paths it creates upon saving as EPS (or expanding the appearance). This is very dissapointing.  My only hope of correcting this that is a free plugin and script that may or not be created by Graffix. Adobe probably can do this. : (
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