Re: Managing and editing technical illustrations

[Jay Maechtlen <techwriter -at- covad -dot- net>]

Acrobat 8 3D or (some version of) Acrobat 9 lets you do some really cool 
things
In Acro 8 3D they include a toolkit-

Import a 3D model
create 2D renders
Create animated 3D exploded views that carry into a PDF that Reader can 
view and use!
Turn objects within the model on or off so you can see what you want to.
- I'm not sure about cutaways.
- and probably more.

Worth considering.
Jay


Yves Barbion wrote:
> Hi techwhirlers
>
> How do you manage and edit technical illustrations created with
> Pro/ENGINEER?
>
> The workflow goes like this:
>
>    1. The engineering dept uses Pro/ENGINEER to create all kinds of
>    technical illustrations.
>    2. The tech writers need to use some of these illustrations in their user
>    guides and service manuals. To this end, they need to be able to:
>
>
>    - Open 3D graphics and render them as 2D
>    - Highlight specific components, for example by adding a grey fill
>    - Do some basic editing, for example add/remove some lines, change some
>    text...
>    - Create detail views of some parts of the graphics
>
>
> How do you handle this? Any tools or graphic file formats you can recommend?
> My (wild) guess would be to export the graphics as PDF, CGM or U3D from
> Pro/ENGINEER and open these in Adobe Illustrator CS4 to edit them, but I
> don't know whether these programs feature these export/import filters and,
> if they do, how good they are.
>
> Thanks in advance for any tips or recommendations.
>
>   

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