Create High-Quality Technical Illustrations Quickly and Cost-Effectively
Technical illustrations are an important means for companies to communicate information about their products and services. And, if a picture’s worth a thousand words, imagine the volume of information communicated by an online 2D or 3D animation. But all too often, technical illustrators only have access to general purpose illustration tools that force them to redraw graphics from scratch. Designed with the technical illustrator in mind, Arbortext IsoDraw is the industry’s only technical illustration software that enables companies to create both 2D and 3D technical illustrations and animations from scratch and more importantly, from existing rich CAD data. When illustrations and animations are created by reusing CAD data and then embedded in technical documents, they contribute to higher quality publications, lower costs, faster time to market, and happier customers.
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Arbortext IsoDraw Foundation
Technical illustrations are essential to technical publications; high-quality illustrations improve the readability of publications, reduce service and operating errors, and improve customer satisfaction. Arbortext IsoDraw Foundation is designed specifically for technical illustrators. It provides all the capabilities you need to create and deliver high-quality illustrations in all required formats and media.
Capabilities and Benefits
- Boost illustrator productivity by providing specialized tools to speed common technical illustrator tasks
- Minimize both training cost and ramp-up time through an intuitive user interface
- Automatically display illustrations with the thick/thin technique-standard for technical illustrations. This technique makes illustrations much easier to understand.
- Convert 2D CAD data to perspective illustrations with an extrusion tool to create a solid body from a flat 2D view, and a tool for creating rotational surfaces from planes
- Get access to over 2,200 views of standard parts. Selected parts are incorporated in the illustration in the correct orientation, perspective and size.
- Easily reuse legacy data using Arbortext IsoDraw Foundation's tools for tracing photos and videos, along with a comprehensive raster editor for processing scanned images
- Support all major graphic formats: WebCGM, CGM, SVG, PNG, JPEG, DWG, IGES, DXF, HPGL, Adobe Illustrator, WMF, EPS, TIFF, PICT, PCX, BMP, CALS Raster, Text excerpt, interleaf ASCII and FrameMaker MIF
- Prepare illustrations for publishing in multiple formats and for delivery in both print and electronic media
- Expand the software capabilities with the optional Arbortext IsoDraw 3D Extension, to create high-quality technical illustrations directly from Pro/ENGINEER and other CAD file formats. Maintain a link to the original 3D model and automatically update illustrations as designs change.
IsoDraw CADProcess
Arbortext IsoDraw CADprocess is a must-have complement to your CAD toolset. This powerful application reduces the CAD designer's workload by providing illustrators with an easy-to-use tool for processing the 3D model and creating high-quality technical illustrations directly from CAD models. Today, the illustration process often includes the time consuming activity of redrawing geometry that was originally captured in the design process using CAD. By maintaining a link to the original 3D model, and by automatically updating illustrations as designs change, Arbortext IsoDraw CADprocess enables companies to develop documentation faster, reduce risk, and shorten time-to-market.
Capabilities and Benefits
- Eliminates the need to create illustrations from scratch; create high-quality technical illustrations directly from CAD
- Manipulates 3D data with a highly intuitive user interface: explosion along any axes, cutaways, rotations, reflections, copying, scaling, etc. Newly trained illustrators can be fully productive within just a few days
- Empowers illustrators to manipulate 3D CAD data for the purpose of the illustration rather than relying on the CAD designer for all 3D data manipulation
- Enables concurrent development of technical publications and engineering designs; link technical illustrations to engineering designs and automatically recreate illustrations when CAD files change (link through IGES, DWG, VRML, or OBJ)
- Deletes hidden lines, sets line thickness as required, and optimizes the elements of the CAD model in order to both reduce file size (required for electronic delivery) and make elements more compact and easier to edit. Reduces further editing and cleanup of illustrations
- Seamlessly upgrade from Arbortext IsoDraw Foundation to the full set of Arbortext IsoDraw CADprocess capabilities using the Arbortext IsoDraw 3D Extension
- Contains the full set of Arbortext IsoDraw Foundation capabilities for creating and editing high-quality technical illustrations, including specialized tools for drawing in perspective, automatic thick/thin line technique application, standard parts library, and high-quality filters for all major graphic formats, among others
- Automatic callout function: using the object structure in the illustration, users can create callouts at the object or assembly level. Callouts are automatically converted into hotspots to aid graphic navigation
- Automatically prepares illustrations for publishing in multiple formats and for delivery in both print and electronic media
 
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