Contents 1 | Introducing CorelDRAW Technical Suite X6 ..................... 1 2 | Customer profiles .............................................................. 3 3 | What’s included?................................................................ 5 4 | Key features........................................................................ 7 Access and repurpose technical design assets ............................................ 7 Create technical illustrations with precision................................
Introducing CorelDRAW® Technical Suite X6 CorelDRAW® Technical Suite X6 is a complete and cost-effective solution for both print and online visual communications. It offers an array of applications with new features and enhancements that streamline the workflow of today’s technical communication professionals and technical graphics users. Access and repurpose technical design assets With Corel DESIGNER® X6, you can confidently work with data created by CAD engineers.
Create technical illustrations with precision Publish to technical communication standards Corel DESIGNER X6 provides new and enhanced specialized design tools for the specific tasks required of technical illustrators. From dimension lines, callouts, and annotations to threads and wells, magnified views, projected measurements, and precise alignment aids, Corel DESIGNER X6 offers everything you need to create clear and accurate technical illustrations.
Customer profiles Technical communication professionals Technical graphics users These users often have formal training in a technical or graphics field, such as technical illustration or technical writing. They work in discrete manufacturing, automotive, aerospace, telecommunications, architectural engineering and construction (AEC), and apparel industries.
What’s included? Applications • Corel DESIGNER® X6: This specialized application streamlines the technical graphics workflow by offering precision vector drawing, page layout, and diagramming tools that meet the demands of technical illustrators and technical graphics users. • CorelDRAW® X6: This intuitive vector-illustration and page-layout application is the perfect partner for Corel DESIGNER.
Content Minimum system requirements • More than 4,000 industry-standard Architectural, Electrical, General, Mechanical, and Tools symbols • Microsoft® Windows® 8, Microsoft® Windows® 7 (32-bit or 64-bit editions), or Windows® XP (32-bit edition), all with latest service packs installed • More than 350 templates, including more than 40 technical ANSI, DIN, and ISO standard templates • Intel® Pentium® 4, AMD Athlon™ 64 or AMD™ Opteron • 10,000 high-quality clipart and images • 1,000 all new professional
Key features CorelDRAW Technical Suite X6 is a complete and cost-effective solution for both print and online visual communications. Access and repurpose technical design assets Most technical illustrations, in 2D or 3D formats, originate from data created by CAD engineers. A technical illustrator will often use multiple applications before finishing a design. The ability to exchange this information between applications without losing data is critical to a technical illustrator’s workflow.
XVL Studio 3D offers support for 3D file formats, such as AutoCAD (DWG and DXF), 3D Studio Max (3DS), Virtual Reality Modelling Language (VRML2), and Universal 3D (U3D). Give it a try Importing a 3D model 1 In Corel DESIGNER X6, click File 3D Import. This will launch XVL Studio Corel Edition. 2 In XVL Studio Corel Edition, click File Open, navigate to the folder containing a supported model that you want to use, and click Open. 3 On the View toolbar, click the ISO and choose a preset ISO view.
With the embedded interface of XVL Player, you can insert and modify 3D models in Corel DESIGNER illustrations. Enhanced! Support for Adobe® CS6 and Microsoft® Publisher: The enhanced import support for Adobe® Illustrator® CS6, Adobe® Photoshop® CS6, Microsoft® Publisher 2010, and Adobe® Acrobat® X files, as well as enhanced export support for Adobe® Illustrator® CS5 and Microsoft® Publisher 2010 files, ensures that you can easily exchange files with colleagues and clients.
Give it a try 4 In the Folders pane, enable the Computer check box, type a word or multiple words in the Search and Address box, and then press Enter. For example, to search for a specific 3D file, type *.3ds (or any of the supported 3D file format extensions). 5 Click the 3D files tab and then drag any file to the tray. You can now drag content from either tray and drop it directly into a Corel DESIGNER project file.
Give it a try 2 On the property bar, click the Top button (Ctrl+Alt+T), and then hold down Ctrl and drag in the drawing window to create a square. This square will be the top of a box. 3 On the property bar, click the Front button (Ctrl+Alt+F), and then hold down Ctrl and drag in the drawing window to create another square. This square will be the front of the box. 4 On the property bar, click the Right button (Ctrl+Alt+R), and then hold down Ctrl and drag in the drawing window to create another square.
New! Identify and set the drawing scale: When the Pick tool is active and no objects are selected, Corel DESIGNER X6 displays the drawing scale on the property bar. This prevents you from having to dig through menus, making it easy to instantly identify and adjust the drawing scale to achieve properly proportionate distances. With Corel DESIGNER X6, you can immediately identify and change the drawing scale.
Illustrate with style and consistency The primary goal of a technical illustration is to be clearly perceived. For a technical illustrator, working on multiple illustrations for a complex project, the ability to maintain consistency is imperative. And this is especially so in a collaborative workflow, with multiple colleagues contributing pieces to a project.
Give it a try 6 In the Object Styles docker, click the new Style button, which is adjacent to the Style Set Sets folder. 7 Click the Parallel Dimension tool, and drag to add dimensions to each of the objects on the drawing page. 8 Right-click Style Set 1, choose Add or Remove Style, and then choose Dimension. New! Color harmonies: The new color harmony functionality lets you group a document’s color styles so that you can quickly and easily produce iterative illustrations with varying color schemes.
Give it a try Working with Halo styles 1 In Corel DESIGNER X6, open or create a wiring diagram containing several connector lines that cross over each other. 2 Right-click a connector line, and then choose Object Styles New Style From Halo. 3 In the New Style From dialog box, type a name in the New Style Name area, and then click OK. 4 Apply the style to other connector lines in the diagram by double-clicking the Halo style in the Object Styles docker.
For convenience and flexibility, you can also use custom placeholder text in any language supported by Corel DESIGNER X6. You simply create an RTF file containing the text you want to use, save it to the default placeholder text folder, and Corel DESIGNER will use that text whenever you invoke the Insert placeholder text command.
Increase performance, speed, and efficiency CorelDRAW Technical Suite X6 provides integrated, native 64-bit applications that take full advantage of multi-core processing power. This dramatically minimizes wait times when working with large files in Corel DESIGNER and CorelDRAW, and with images in Corel PHOTO-PAINT. You’ll also enjoy increased efficiency when accessing data, exporting files, and printing documents.
Give it a try Working with callouts 1 In Corel DESIGNER X6, click the 2-point tool, and drag in the drawing window to create a rectangle object. Rectangle 2 Click the 1-Leg Callout tool (Shift+A), click to place the arrowhead within the rectangle, drag to complete the callout line outside the rectangle, and then type some callout text. The callout is now anchored to the rectangle. 3 Click the Pick tool, select the rectangle, and then drag to move it.
manuals, it’s now easy to incorporate page-specific headers, footers, and page numbers. For example, you might want a different header design to appear on even pages than the one that appears on odd pages. New! Microsoft® Visual Basic® for Applications 7.1: Microsoft® Visual Basic® for Applications 7.1 provides 64-bit support for developing high-performance custom solutions and automations.
Optional Add-On: XVL Studio 3D CAD Corel® Edition For organizations that require additional 3D editing capabilities, CorelDRAW Technical Suite X6 offers an upgrade to XVL Studio 3D CAD Corel Edition. This upgrade provides native support for 3D CAD systems used in discrete manufacturing, such as the automotive, aerospace, and machinery industries. XVL Studio 3D CAD Corel Edition lets users do more with CAD files without the steep learning curve.
Animation tool set: XVL Studio 3D CAD provides a full set of animation tools, including a dedicated editing console as well as a method for automated creation of disassembly animations. The hierarchical structure of the Assembly Tree view gives you full control over the creation of assembly, sub-assembly, and part structures for use in illustrated assembly and maintenence instructions. Online and mobile outputs: XVL Studio 3D CAD supports output of 3D models to HTML and for mobile devices.
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