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Drawing Patterns -
There are numerous situations in technical illustration where you need to apply patterns or structures and simulate these. Some examples would be a grid as on a radiator grill, drill-holes on surfaces such as footboards, or thin slots as in ventilation slots.
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Hoses and Tubes -
Hoses and tubes have to be drawn rather frequently in Technical Illustration. What do you have to regard?
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Standard parts libraries -
Did you know that there are free standard parts libraries on the Internet?
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Success factors in phototracing -
As well as creating parallel perspectives, phototracing is an effective technique for achieving rapid results. However, it does require more experience than other techniques.
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Labeling in illustrations -
In technical illustrations, labeling is often needed to denominate specific parts. Here, it is important to remember certain details that can really make a difference. This is especially true if the file is to be converted at a later time.
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Accentuation in Technical Illustration -
There are various ways to accentuate a specific part in its installation position. However in order to keep the printing cost as low as possible, it is recommended to opt for stylistic devices that are all in black and white.
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Creation of polylines -
Sometimes it becomes necessary to create polylines that follow a certain path as a string of short segments. Here's a little trick that easily helps to solve this task.
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Distance Measurement in Perspective -
In isometric, it is possible to work directly with measurements only on the main axes. Here you can learn what you have to do if you need a measure beyond the main axes.
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Shadowing of lines -
In Technical Illustration, reference lines are often used to assign text or position numbers to specific parts of an illustration. It only takes a little refinement to polish the reference lines.
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Displaying nested views by coverage -
When creating graphics, you often have to arrange elements such that they overlay. There are two ways of masking the hidden elements.
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Filleted Corners -
The illustration of a cube with filleted corners follows specific rules. Therefore, you must account for certain considerations when you depict such a cube. Get to know more about these filleted corners and learn how to build such a cube correctly.
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Bounding Box -
After its creation, a graphic is often used in a DTP system. When the graphic needs to be positioned in a text, its dimension becomes important.
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Gearwheels -
Drawing gearwheels is a frequent task for a technical illustrator. This article shows you how to arrange the cogs on the diameter.
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O-Rings -
What can you do to illustrate O-rings? Just draw two concentric ellipses and fill them black? This cannot be all. It's the details that count...
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CAD Import -
The use of existing data is a very efficient and comfortable way of creating technical illustrations. Use construction data in order to avoid double work.
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Lord of the Rings -
Very often there is a need for filling a ring with color. The hole in the middle, however, must be transparent.
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