Corel Corel Designer Technical Suite - X6 Reviewer's Guide
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.............................................. 11
Illustrate with style and consistency ......................................................... 13
Publish to technical communication standards......................................... 16
Increase performance, speed, and efficiency ............................................ 17
5 | Optional Add-On: XVL Studio 3D CAD Corel Edition .........21
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. You can
take advantage of XVL Studio 3D Corel Edition to
open, edit, modify, and import 3D models into your
technical illustrations. And with XVL Player, you can
interactively insert 3D views and specify various
projections, angles, and basic cross-sections.
CorelDRAW Technical Suite X6 also provides industryleading file format compatibility, which ensures
smooth collaboration with colleagues and clients
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alike. Whether it’s AutoCAD
Illustrator
Publisher, or Adobe
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CS6, Adobe® Photoshop® CS6, Microsoft®
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Acrobat® X, you can access and
DWG and DXF, Adobe®
repurpose data from a wide range of formats. Plus,
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Corel
CONNECT™ X6 offers an easy and efficient way
to organize and find project assets.
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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.
Illustrate with style and consistency
With Corel DESIGNER X6, you’ll find many
convenient features that help you implement and
maintain a consistent style. A new styles engine
and Object Styles docker make it easy to ensure
consistency of all illustration elements, such as
lines, callouts, colors, dimensions, halos, and text.
A new Color Styles docker lets you use styles and
color harmonies to manage colors and quickly
implement project-wide color changes, which is
especially useful for producing iterative designs and
varying graphic outputs. In addition, new support
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for advanced OpenType
and Middle Eastern languages help you output
multi-lingual publications with confidence.
CorelDRAW Technical Suite X6 also provides creative
design applications, such as CorelDRAW
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PHOTO-PAINT™ X6, which are ideal for
Corel
producing downstream outputs from a technical
illustration, such as marketing collateral, graphics,
and presentation materials.
and typesettings for Asian
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X6 and
With it’s industry-leading file format compatibility,
online and mobile 3D publishing options, support
for WebCGM and S1000D, CorelDRAW Technical
Suite X6 ensures that you can output for print
publication, the web, online Help systems, and
IETMs. You can also rely on compliance with various
standards-based systems, including Content
Management Systems (CMS), Product Data
Management (PDM), Product Lifecycle Management
(PLM), and Translation Memory Systems (TMS).
Increase performance, speed, and efficiency
The integrated, native 64-bit applications included
with CorelDRAW Technical Suite X6 are optimized
for multi-core processors, which is ideal for
working with large files and complex 3D data. The
new Property Manager docker presents only
selection-dependent options so you can apply
object formatting faster than ever before.
The suite also offers enhancements that help you
increase workflow efficiency, such as new support
for Symbol transparency, dynamic callout creation
based on object data, quicker and more agile
object selection, and the ability to interactively
place 3D-sourced illustrations as high-quality 2D
vector graphics.
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Customer profiles
Technical communication professionals
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.
The graphics created by technical illustrators are
used in assembly instructions, user guides,
illustrated parts catalogs (IPCs), maintenance
manuals, schematics, or wiring diagrams. These
documents are output to various media, such as
print, the web, and interactive electronic technical
manuals (IETMs).
Technical communication professionals receive files
from colleagues and clients that were created with
various industry-standard applications. Within a
collaborative environment, the ability to repurpose
3D CAD and legacy files for multiple outputs is
critical to streamline processes.
Technical graphics users
These users are often self-taught in graphic design
and work in large enterprise environments, such as
manufacturing, automotive, telecommunication,
pharmaceuticals, chemicals, and energy industries.
Among their many tasks and responsibilities is the
need to create a variety of graphics, including
diagrams used in presentation materials, floor
plans, schematics, and marketing materials.
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.
In a typical organization, there may be many
technical graphics users spread across several
departments. They are not generally required to use
the software daily, and as such, they do not often
get opportunities for extensive training.
In addition, many small to medium-sized
organizations rely on content authoring and
management systems, so they seek solutions that
can be easily integrated.
They require cost-effective and easy-to-use
solutions that enable them to repurpose legacy files
and 2D CAD data, create basic technical diagrams,
and publish standardized outputs.
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What’s included?
Applications
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Corel DESIGNER® X6:
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.
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CorelDRAW® X6:
and page-layout application is the perfect
partner for Corel DESIGNER. It offers technical
communication professionals additional creative
graphics and design tools that are ideal for more
artful endeavors, such as marketing collateral
outputs.
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Corel® PHOTO-PAINT™ X6:
image-editing application lets you quickly and
easily retouch and enhance photos for both
technical communication and creative graphics
projects.
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Corel® PowerTRACE® X6:
utility lets you quickly and accurately convert
bitmaps, such as scanned blueprints, into
editable vector graphics.
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Corel CAPTURE™ X6:
you capture images from your computer screen,
which is especially useful for creating illustrated
software documentation, such as user guides.
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Corel® CONNECT™ X6:
connects you to the suite’s digital content library,
and lets you search your computer, local
network, and online sources to quickly find the
perfect complement for an illustration. Fully
integrated, it is also available as a docker in Corel
DESIGNER, CorelDRAW, and Corel PHOTO-PAINT.
This specialized
This intuitive vector-illustration
This professional
This convenient
This one-click utility lets
This full-screen browser
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Corel® Website Creator™ X6:
This application
offers a fast and easy way to design, build, and
manage websites.
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XVL Studio 3D Corel Edition:
This 3D
authoring application lets you create vector
illustrations and photo-realistic renderings from
3D views, including cross sections and 3D
element modifications.
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XVL Player:
This 3D viewer is integrated with
Corel DESIGNER X6 for the insertion of 3D data
assets in technical illustrations. It provides the
ability to modify 3D views and display modes.
Supporting applications
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Microsoft® Visual Basic® for Applications 7.1:
This integrated development environment
includes 64-bit support and helps you streamline
your workflow by automating tasks.
Microsoft® Visual Studio® Tools for Applications 2.0:
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This toolset includes the power of the .NET
framework, so you can create time-saving macros
to automate tasks and extend functionality.
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Duplexing wizard:
optimize your work for two-sided printing.
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Barcode wizard:
bar codes in a wide range of industry-standard
formats.
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Bitstream® Font Navigator®:
winning font manager for the Windows
operating system helps you manage, find, install,
and preview fonts.
This wizard helps you
This wizard lets you generate
This award-
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Content
Minimum system requirements
• More than 4,000 industry-standard
Architectural, Electrical, General, Mechanical,
and Tools symbols
• More than 350 templates, including more than
40 technical ANSI, DIN, and ISO standard
templates
• 10,000 high-quality clipart and images
• 1,000 all new professional, high-resolution
digital photos
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• 1,000 OpenType
fonts, such as Helvetica
fonts, including premium
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• 800 frames and patterns
Documentation
• Online Help files
•User Guide (PDF)
• Macro Programming Guide (PDF)
• Video tutorials
•Microsoft® Windows® 8, Microsoft® Windows® 7
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(32-bit or 64-bit editions), or Windows
XP (32-bit
edition), all with latest service packs installed
•Intel® Pentium® 4, AMD Athlon™ 64 or AMD™
Opteron
•1 GB RAM
• 1.5 GB hard disk space (for typical installation
without content, additional disk space is
required during installation)
• 1024 × 768 or better monitor resolution
• Mouse or tablet
•DVD drive
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• Microsoft
Internet Explorer® 7 or higher
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