Corel Corel Designer Technical Suite - X5 Reviewer’s Guide

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 .......................................... 11

Publish to technical communication standards ......................................... 15

5 | Upgrade comparisons ....................................................17

6 | Glossary ..........................................................................21

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.

Connect to technical design assets

With Corel DESIGNER Technical Suite X5, users can start projects quickly from virtually any source material. The new Corel search for and access content from disparate sources, such as their computer, an external memory card, a local network, and even online.

The suite also provides industry-leading file format compatibility, 3D visualization options, an add-on for increased 3D CAD capabilities, and many more new and enhanced tools that dramatically speed the technical illustration process. Enhanced support for industry-standard AutoCAD ensures that users won’t have to spend precious time dealing with file-conversion errors.

DWG™ and AutoCAD® DXF™ formats

CONNECT™ lets users

Create technical illustrations with confidence

Corel DESIGNER Technical Suite X5 lets users create illustrations, diagrams, and technical documentation with confidence using specialized technical drawing tools and intuitive features. The inclusion of both CorelDRAW

X5 and

PHOTO-PAINT™ X5 gives users additional

Corel options when outputting illustrations for use in creative projects, such as marketing, sales, or other promotional materials.

An array of dedicated and specialized technicalillustration features helps users work quickly without compromising precision. By using the tools for creating halos and connector lines, users can add an unprecedented level of clarity to their drawings. In addition, dimension, arrowhead, and line tools let users easily and intuitively create and fine-tune technical illustrations and diagrams. What’s more, the projected drawing modes dramatically increase productivity by letting users actively draw on the projected plane, which eliminates the need to draw the object first and then project it in a second step.

Publish to technical communication standards

Technical illustrations appear in documents that vary widely in scale and complexity — for example, furniture construction manuals, parts catalogs, machine assembly instructions, and interactive electronic training manuals (IETM). The media used for output are also diverse, ranging from printed materials to interactive screen illustrations.

To that end, Corel DESIGNER Technical Suite X5 simplifies the workflow of technical illustrators. Users can easily share their work online or in print, thanks to support for a wide range of industry standards, including WebCGM, S1000D, and PDF/A.

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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. These documents are output to

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Photos

Blueprints

various media, such as print, the Web, and interactive electronic technical manuals (IETMs).

The files that a technical illustrator receives from colleagues and clients are created with various industry-standard applications. As a result, a wide range of file formats must be easily integrated into the technical illustrator’s workflow. With tight deadlines, technical illustrators also need to streamline their processes, especially within a collaborative environment. Therefore, they greatly value the ability to save time by basing new projects on legacy documents.

IETMs

PDF

WebCGM

SVG

HTM

EPS

WMF

TIFF

JPG

PNG

PSD

DXF

Parts Catalogs

Technical Manuals

Marketing Materials

DIP-6

Diagrams

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Corel DESIGNER Technical Suite X5 lets users leverage data from a variety of sources.

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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 Exploration

™

6 CCE, users can directly import 3D

Deep

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. Corel DESIGNER X5 also lets technical illustrators easily access legacy documents, whether in digital format or on hard copy, by providing enhanced support for older Corel DESIGNER files. What’s more, technical illustrators can now convert scanned drawings and blueprints to vector graphics by using

Corel

PowerTRACE®, a dedicated bitmap-to-vector conversion application that is integrated into Corel DESIGNER X5.

Technical graphics users

Technical graphics users work in large-enterprise environments. Among their many tasks and responsibilities is the need to create a variety of graphics, including diagrams used in presentation material, floor plans, and schematics. These users may create graphics from scratch or base them on legacy files. They often work collaboratively, and the graphics they create may later be imported for reuse with office-productivity, diagramming, and desktop-publishing software.

Self-taught in graphic design, these users can confidently turn to the enhanced diagramming tools in Corel DESIGNER X5 to modify existing graphics. Corel PHOTO-PAINT X5, a professionalcaliber image editor, allows them to work with photos in a wide variety of formats — including raw files from more than 360 camera models — to create presentations and marketing collateral.

Specialized drawing tools help technical illustrators quickly improve the clarity of their work. With the collaborate tool, CorelDRAW ConceptShare, technical illustrators can share and review files within Corel DESIGNER X5, CorelDRAW X5, and Corel PHOTO-PAINT X5. In addition, technical illustrators can customize the workspace to best suit their working style and can save valuable time by automating tasks.

With its extensive collection of learning tools, Corel DESIGNER Technical Suite X5 makes it easy to create impressive images — even for users without a technical design background. Furthermore, technical graphics users can work seamlessly with clients and colleagues in other departments, thanks to the enhanced compatibility with industry-standard file formats, including Microsoft

Visio®, Microsoft Office®,

Microsoft Publisher, and PDF 1.7.

Corel DESIGNER X5 is the ultimate software solution for a technical graphics workflow.

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What’s included?

Corel DESIGNER® Technical Suite X5 includes many new and enhanced applications that help streamline the technical illustration workflow.

Main applications

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Enhanced! Corel DESIGNER® X5:

specialized application streamlines the technical graphics workflow by offering precision vector drawing, page layout, and diagramming tools that meet the demands of technical illustrators.

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New! CorelDRAW® X5:

intuitive vector- illustration and page-layout application gives technical graphics professionals an additional creative tool without requiring a separate license.

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Enhanced! Corel® PHOTO-PAINT™ X5:

professional image-editing application lets users quickly and easily retouch and enhance photos.

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Enhanced! Corel® PowerTRACE® X5:

utility lets users quickly and accurately convert bitmaps, such as scanned blueprints, into editable vector graphics.

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Corel CAPTURE™ X5:

capture utility lets users capture images from their computer screen.

This renowned and

This one-click screen

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Enhanced!

Exploration

quickly transform 3D designs into accurate 2D graphics, export directly to Corel DESIGNER X5 or create bitmap renderings for retouching with Corel PHOTO-PAINT X5, and leverage existing CAD assets without expensive CAD software or engineering.

Right Hemisphere® Deep

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6 CSE:

This application lets users

Supporting applications

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New! Microsoft® Visual Studio® Tools for

Applications:

automate tasks and extend functionality within Corel DESIGNER Technical Suite X5. Microsoft included and the application programming interface (API) has been enhanced.

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New! SWiSH miniMax™2:

quickly and easily create stunning interactive animations for use in training materials and other projects.

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New! PhotoZoom Pro 2:

enlarge digital images and export them from Corel PHOTO-PAINT X5.

Users can create macros to

Visual Basic® for Applications is also

This utility lets users

This plug-in lets users

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New! Corel® CONNECT™:

browser lets users peruse the suite’s digital content and search their computer, local network, or online sources to quickly find the perfect complement for a design. Fully integrated, it is also available as a docker in Corel DESIGNER X5, CorelDRAW X5, and Corel PHOTO-PAINT X5.

This full-screen

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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 clicking Help menu

Help Topics.

• Available in PDF format, the

online Help

Corel DESIGNER® Technical Suite X5 Programming Guide for VBA

helps users automate tasks and create

custom solutions.

• Available in PDF format, the

Technical Suite X5 Deployment Guide

Corel DESIGNER®

provides detailed installation and deployment information (volume licensed customers only).

Training

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Enhanced! CorelTUTOR™:

online, project-based tutorials that help users learn Corel DESIGNER X5, CorelDRAW X5, and Corel PHOTO-PAINT X5. In addition to providing tours of each workspace, CorelTUTOR helps users learn to work with dimension lines and callouts, create projected drawings, draw a wiring diagram, and much more.

The suite provides

Minimum system requirements

• Microsoft® Windows® 7, Windows Vista®, or Windows (32-bit or 64-bit editions)

•Intel Opteron

•1 GB RAM

• 1.4 GB hard disk space (1.6 GB for typical installation without content; up to 6.7 GB needed to install extra content)

• 1024 × 768 or better monitor resolution (768 × 1024 on a Tablet PC)

• Mouse or tablet

• DVD drive

• Microsoft

XP, with latest service packs installed

Pentium® 4, AMD Athlon™ 64 or AMD™

Internet Explorer® 7 or higher

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