Hi Phil, I would say Illustrator would be the way to go. I have used this plugin before: https://www.hotdoor.com This would be good for low level exploded view drawings. If you are going to do more precise drawings then you should do that in a CAD program. Cheers, Carey On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Philip Havens Technology Consulting < phil at philiphavens.com> wrote: > ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area. > ** If you did, we all thank you. > > > > Greetings HT'ers, > I'm always impressed by great feedback for software suggestions, so I'm > going to throw a request out to y'all. I'm interested in hearing your > suggestions for technical drawing or illustration software. A couple things > to qualify my request: > 1) The software must run on Apple OS X 10.x and Intel processor. > 2) I doubt that I'm going to use this software on a regular basis, so ease > of use and somewhat short learning curve would be advantageous (though not > required) > 3) The project that I'm considering using this for involves recreating some > exploded machine parts diagrams from a very poor quality scanned image > 4) The end purpose is to include the diagrams in a printed catalog (using > Adobe InDesign - I already have CS5 Design Premium) > 5) Would Adobe Illustrator be an appropriate tool for this? If so, do you > have any recommended sources for symbol libraries. I did google search and > found some, but not sure of the quality of the search results. > www.codezebra.com popped up a few times. > 6) I don't need drawing precision that would be required for a blueprint, > architectural drawing or engineering diagram. > > Hopefully this is enough info to generate some feedback, but if I can > clarify anything, I'd be happy to. > Thanks for any suggestions and feedback. Phil..... > > > > email: phil at philiphavens.com > phone: 860 485 2145 > mail: PO Box 591, New Hartford, CT 06057 > website: http://www.philiphavens.com > _______________________________________________ > Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net > Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net > > You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion list. > If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members > page on the Hidden Tech Web site. > http://www.hidden-tech.net/members > -- Carey Baker Northampton, MA 413-265-7116 Twitter: @MSonDesign www.midnightsondesigns.com www.linkedin.com/in/careybaker www.neabundance.com/blog_ne -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.hidden-tech.net/pipermail/hidden-discuss/attachments/20110429/0a34318b/attachment.html