Technical illustration software
The ideal tool for creating technical illustrations and documentation, Corel DESIGNER® Technical Suite 12 is a comprehensive technical graphics suite offering one of the most competitive price/performance ratios in the industry today.
Also available: Corel DESIGNER Professional 12
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$699.00 USD
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Designed for the technical illustration workflow
Corel DESIGNER Technical Suite 12 was conceived with a specific focus on the technical illustrator's needs for design precision, collaboration efficiency and flexibility, and the ability to re-purpose old data and drawings.
The creation of technical illustrations can be a complex process, especially when designs are intended to serve multiple departments within an organization. The diagram for a single part may need to be used in product documentation and re-purposed for use in marketing materials. In such cases, it is critical that users are able to collaborate with internal and external department resources, and work seamlessly with external data in various file formats.
Customize your workspace to increase productivity
Corel DESIGNER Technical Suite 12 was designed to integrate seamlessly into the technical illustration workflow. It offers a customizable user interface, enabling you to streamline the available tools to match your workflow and quickly tailor the interface menus, commands, shortcut keys and toolbars. For network deployments, Dynamic Language Switching makes it easy to deploy and use the application in any of its supported languages.
The Workspace Selector offers the choice of additional workspaces. It includes pre-configured workspaces that resemble the look and feel of Adobe® Illustrator®, Micrografx Designer® 9 and Microsoft® Visio®, allowing you to work in a familiar environment. You can also create, save and share your own custom workspaces. For example, create different workspaces that are specific to the review and design processes.
Convert legacy designs to save time and resources
Before the days of CAD and other illustration software, technical illustrators relied on old-fashioned India ink to put their designs on paper. To use many of these older designs today, they must be scanned to create a bitmap image. The bitmaps are then traced to form editable vector images. To save time and effort, Corel DESIGNER Technical Suite 12 includes CorelTRACE® 12, a bitmap-to-vector tracing utility. CorelTRACE automatically converts scanned or manually created bitmaps into vector images and seamlessly imports them into Corel DESIGNER.
Minimize data loss through AutoCAD® compatibility
Today, most technical illustrations start with data created by CAD engineers. Typically, this data details the technical component of a product and can range from legacy designs to new perspective views. Often, a technical illustrator employs 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.
Corel DESIGNER Technical Suite 12 perfectly complements AutoCAD by providing tools and features that support the workflow of technical illustrators. It supports more than 75 file formats, including DXF, DWG, SVG, CGM, CDR, PDF, PSD, TIFF, AI, EPS, DOC and XLS. In addition, the suite lets you import Corel DESIGNER 9 and Micrografx DESIGNER files (DSF), including versions 3.1 through 9.
Ensure precision while completing work quickly
To a technical illustrator, precision is everything. Whether a design is intended for the aerospace, automotive, apparel or telecommunications industry, approximation is not an option. All objects must be perfectly aligned with each other. With a hectic workflow, you cannot afford to waste time by zooming in and out to double-check object positioning.
Corel DESIGNER Technical Suite 12 provides exceptional tools for ensuring the accuracy of your technical illustrations. Gravity Snapping lets you snap the pointer to various points in objects, making it easy to create and position objects precisely. You can now snap the pointer to perpendicular and text baseline points as well.
Dynamic Guides are temporary guidelines that you can pull from the following snap points in objects: center, node, quadrant and text baseline. You can also display Dynamic Guides that are tangent, perpendicular or parallel to objects. In addition, parallel Dynamic Guides help you easily draw parallel lines or objects.
Use the right tools for the job
Technical illustrations also require detailed annotations, callouts and measurements. These items may include information about product part numbers, links to other drawings, and descriptions of functionality. Corel DESIGNER Technical Suite 12 provides enhanced tools for creating and modifying callouts and dimension lines, with simple or advanced options. For example, adding a halo to a callout creates a mask behind the leader line, which makes it easier to see callouts on top of other objects.
The new projected drawing modes, which use predefined drawing profiles to represent 3D objects in 2D, dramatically increase productivity for technical illustrators. Now you can actively draw on the projected plane, eliminating the need to draw the object first and then project it in a second step. The new enhanced line styles, which allow you to create lines of a specific width and pattern, are particularly useful for drawing stitching patterns. They were developed as a direct result of user feedback in the apparel industry. In addition, Hatch fills provide an easy method of differentiating between material types, such as flooring.
Frequently, an illustration may be localized in several languages or contain information in multiple languages. Corel DESIGNER Technical Suite 12 supports Unicode text, which allows you to easily work with multilingual documents.
Automate repetitive tasks to save time and effort
Many technical illustrators spend countless hours on repetitive tasks, such as hotspotting, changing part numbers, and creating lists of parts. With Microsoft® Visual Basic® for Applications (VBA) and an array of industry-standard symbols included, Corel DESIGNER Technical Suite 12 streamlines the technical illustration workflow.
VBA lets you automate repetitive tasks and enables easy interaction between data and objects for creating hotspots and parts lists. VBA can also be used to create add-ons and extensions for Corel DESIGNER Technical Suite 12 to suit your workflow.
To allow easy placement of screws, nuts, bolts and threading, Corel DESIGNER Technical Suite 12 includes more than 4,000 industry-standard symbols. You can also create and share your own reusable symbols that can be linked to over a corporate network. The ability to link to the symbols over a network enables dynamic updates, so when a linked symbol is modified by another illustrator, designs using that symbol can be easily updated to reflect the change.
Export your work to any format or medium
Whether you're importing a file or exporting a finished design, data loss is not an option. Industry-standard file formats are mandatory to ensure easy deployment and sharing of files. Included in the more than 75 industry-standard import/export filters, Corel DESIGNER Technical Suite 12 supports WebCGM, ActiveCGM, GREX-CGM (ATA), and SVG filters. You can also import and export to a variety of bitmap formats, including TIFF, GIF, JPEG, PNG, CDR, CPT and RIF.
Without the need for additional software, you can easily create a PDF of a design, which is viewable using Adobe® Acrobat® Reader® software on any computer. To ensure perfect printing results, Corel DESIGNER Technical Suite 12 also features a color management system and advanced preflight capabilities.
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