® Reviewer’s Guide
Contents 1 | Introducing Corel DESIGNER Technical Suite X5 ........... 1 2 | Customer profiles ............................................................3 3 | What’s included? ..............................................................5 4 | Key features .....................................................................7 Connect to technical design assets............................................................... 7 Create technical illustrations with confidence ...................................
1 Introducing Corel DESIGNER® Technical Suite X5 Corel DESIGNER® Technical Suite X5 is the most complete and cost-effective solution for visual technical communications. It provides a bevy of applications designed to complement a technical illustration workflow. It also offers smooth network deployment with multilingual options for IT adminstrators, making the suite ideal for businesses of any size.
2 Customer profiles Technical illustrators Technical Illustrators have formal training in a technical or graphics field. They work for small to medium-sized technical-illustration service providers and for large companies within technical documentation departments. Some technical illustrators are self-employed. The graphics created by technical illustrators are used in assembly instructions, user guides, parts catalogs, maintenance manuals, schematics, or wiring diagrams.
Corel DESIGNER® X5 addresses these needs by allowing technical illustrators to import and visualize 3D design files and by providing enhanced support for AutoCAD formats. With the optional add-on, Right Hemisphere® Deep Exploration™ 6 CCE, users can directly import 3D CAD files received from engineering and manufacturing departments. Technical illustrators can get right to work without having to spend time correcting errors that occur during format conversion.
3 What’s included? Corel DESIGNER® Technical Suite X5 includes many new and enhanced applications that help streamline the technical illustration workflow. Main applications • Enhanced! Corel DESIGNER® X5: 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.
Documentation • A comprehensive PDF User Guide is included. • Users can find answers to common questions, detailed reference information, and step-by-step procedural information in the online Help by clicking Help menu ` Help Topics. • Available in PDF format, the Corel DESIGNER® Technical Suite X5 Programming Guide for VBA helps users automate tasks and create custom solutions.
4 Key features Corel DESIGNER® Technical Suite X5 is the most complete and cost-effective solution for visual technical communications. Connect to technical design assets Most technical illustrations originate from data created by CAD engineers in 2D or 3D files. 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.
Enhanced! 3D visualization options: Corel DESIGNER Technical Suite X5 includes Right Hemisphere Deep Exploration 6 CSE, a 3D visualization application. This lets users import, view, modify, and output 3D models, such as AutoCAD, Google® SketchUp™ (SKP), 3D Studio (3DS), and Virtual Reality Modelling Language (VRML). With Deep Exploration 6 CSE, users can output 3D files as high-quality vector graphics for further editing and refinement with Corel DESIGNER X5.
Optional Add-On! 3D CAD import: For organizations that require additional 3D editing options, Corel DESIGNER Technical Suite X5 offers an upgrade to Right Hemisphere Deep Exploration 6 CCE. By providing native support for 3D CAD systems used in discrete manufacturing, such as automative, aerospace, and machinery, Deep Exploration 6 CCE lets users do more with CAD files without the steep learning curve or licensing costs.
Enhanced! 2D CAD support: Corel DESIGNER X5 Enhanced! VSTA integration: For increased ensures that users never have to worry about file format compatibility when working with customers or project partners. Improved support for AutoCAD DXF and AutoCAD DWG (R2.5 to 2010) ensures easy, error-free data conversion when these files are imported into Corel DESIGNER X5. automation flexibility, users can now take advantage of Microsoft® Visual Studio® Tools for Applications for creating macros and add-ins.
Create technical illustrations with confidence Technical illustrators require tools designed for very specific tasks. For instance, they need to be able to work quickly and intuitively when adding or fine-tuning dimension lines and text, twopoint lines, detailed annotations, callouts, and measurements. The ability to call attention to an element in an illustration by providing a magnified view is also critical.
Connector lines: Corel DESIGNER X5 offers Dimension tools: Corel DESIGNER X5 lets users advanced connector lines, so users can create flowcharts and business diagrams quickly and easily. With Smart Drawing technology, the paths of connector lines are automatically adjusted to circumvent other objects, and freehand strokes are converted to basic shapes and smoothed curves.
New & Enhanced! Use color with certainty: Enhanced! Professional image editing: With Corel DESIGNER Technical Suite X5, the color management engine has been completely redesigned. The new Default Color Management Settings dialog box lets users set default color profiles, policies, and rendering intents for each application. In addition, a new Document Color Settings dialog box lets users adjust color settings that apply only to the current document.
New! Multi-core support: With support for New! CorelDRAW® X5: For the first time ever, multi-core processing technologies, users can expect Corel DESIGNER Technical Suite X5 to perform faster than ever. Now, when performing processor-heavy tasks, the suite’s applications will display an icon indicating that intensive activities are happening in the background while users can continue their work. Corel DESIGNER Technical Suite X5 now includes CorelDRAW X5.
Publish to technical communication standards The diagrams, graphics, and illustrations that are created by technical graphics professionals are viewed on a number of platforms — print, the web, online Help systems, and IETMs. Therefore, users require output options that ensure they are compliant with these and other standards-based systems, such as CMS, PDM, and PLM.
5 Upgrade comparisons Upgrading from previous versions of Corel DESIGNER® Technical Suite This table lists the new, enhanced, and existing features of Corel DESIGNER Technical Suite X5 for users who are upgrading from a previous version of Corel DESIGNER. A blue check mark (9) indicates full support, a grey check mark (9) indicates limited support.
Technical illustration feature File format support Corel DESIGNER® Technical Suite X5 100+ Enhanced! Corel DESIGNER® Technical Suite X4 Corel DESIGNER® Technical Suite 12 100+ 75+ 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 Corel DESIGNER® 10 60+ Create technical illustrations with confidence Object Origin Control 9 New! Multi-core support 9 New! Projected drawing modes Scalable round corners Enhanced! Hatch fills Callout tool 9 Enhanced! Custom arrowheads 9 9 Optimize geometric objects (Curve-to
Technical illustration feature Corel DESIGNER® Technical Suite X5 Corel DESIGNER® Technical Suite X4 Corel DESIGNER® Technical Suite 12 Corel DESIGNER® 10 9 Web animation tools New! (SWiSH miniMax) 9 Review and collaboration tools 9 Migrating from CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite X5 This table lists the unique technical illustration features of Corel DESIGNER Technical Suite X5 for users who are working with CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5.
Technical illustration feature Callouts Corel DESIGNER® Technical Suite X5 9 CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite X5 9 Advanced! (with presets and callout text sources) Dimension tools 9 9 Advanced! (with presets, and both radial and diametric options) Reverse dimension line arrowheads Gravity snapping 9 9 9 Advanced! (with keyboard shortcuts) Connector line tools 9 9 Halos on curves and connector lines 9 Photo editing 9 9 Review and collaboration tools 9 9 Publish to technical illustration stand
6 Glossary • Bounding box: The invisible box indicated by the eight selection handles surrounding a selected object. • Encoding: Determines the character set of text, letting users correctly display text in the appropriate language. • Color palette: A collection of solid colors from which users can choose colors for fills and outlines. • Fill: A color, bitmap, fountain, hatch, or pattern applied to an area of an image.
• Outline: The line that defines the shape of an object. • Rendering: To capture a two-dimensional image from a three-dimensional model. • Rotate: To reposition and reorient an object by turning it around its center of rotation. • S1000D: S1000D is an international specification for the procurement and production of technical publications. • Segment: The line or curve between nodes in a curve object. • Skew: To slant an object vertically, horizontally, or both.
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