[Hidden-tech] Technical Drawings Software for Mac

Carey Baker midnight451 at gmail.com
Fri Apr 29 12:10:55 EDT 2011


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:

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> 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.....
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