Software for illustration of technical manuals

Could someone point me to a software that can input SW assemblies, explode
and/or move and hide components, and output a drawing view to be used in a
maintenance manual?

TIA

JM

 

Sounds like SolidWorks is what you are looking for....

John Harland

 

We use SolidWorks for that.

 

For simple assemblies you can use eDrawings, with this program you can open
Solidworks assemblies. Hide, make transparant and move components.
Output can be done by save-as JPG (or print to pdf).
eDrawings can be downloaded for free from solidworks.com website.
\/\/im

 

I'd be surprised if that gave him what he needs, though I'm on SW2004, so
maybe eDrawings has been enhanced since then.

Yes, you can move parts around to "explode" the assembly, but this is only a
temporary dragging (i.e. no real control) out of their normal position and
cannot be saved - the components will be back in their original positions
when you reopen the file.

Regards,
John Harland

 

Thanks for the answers.
So far I have found 2 apps that can do that:
Autovue pro 3D
Spinfire pro V2006 (the one available for trial dwnld is V2004)

Both for less than 1000 Eu, while SW is 8100 Eu here. And easier to use than
SW for this very purpose.

Another soft that may be of interest, but not for creating paper docs, is
Subdo
http://www.subdo.fr/

 

Try this site.

http://www.immdesign.com/

The product is IPA Professional

They are one of SolidWorks partners.

Speaking if which, you might want to check out the SoildWorks web site
for more partners.

 

Another company is Quadrispace
www.quadrispace.com

Len