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Technical Illustration
Interactive Technical Solutions have a team of Technical Illustrators who produce illustrations for our in-house publications, or can produce an illustration to insert within your own documentation.
Our illustrators can produce line and colour illustrations from any source information, by viewing the actual equipment to working from engineering drawings. Most commonly now, we work from many electronic formats, but mainly STEP or IGES. Whilst CAD has opened the door to the creation of an illustration at the click of button, in reality, it is not always as simple as that. Quite often an assembly can have more than one CAD file, from different sources with little or no interface detail between them, this is where the skill of a technical Illustrator can bridge the gap.
Our illustrations can be produced to any specification required. JSP186, JSP(D)543, ATA iSpec 2200, S1000D. Our software of choice is Isodraw, though we also utilise Solidworks 3dVIA for colour work and animations.
Scalable Vector Graphics
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an XML-based vector image format for two-dimensional graphics with support for interactivity and animation. The SVG specification is an open standard developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) since 1999.
SVG images and their behaviours are defined in XML text files. This means that they can be searched, indexed, scripted, and compressed. As XML files, SVG images can be created and edited with any text editor, as well as with drawing software.
All major modern web browsers—including Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari, and Microsoft Edge—have SVG rendering support.
- Interactivity
SVG images can interact with users in many ways. In addition to hyperlinks as mentioned below, any part of an SVG image can be made receptive to user interface events such as changes in focus, mouse clicks, scrolling or zooming the image and other pointer, keyboard and document events. Event handlers may start, stop or alter animations as well as trigger scripts in response to such events. - Linking
SVG images can contain hyperlinks to other documents or references for variables for interrogating databases. ITS produce illustrations using Isodraw, these are vector illustrations and can have hyperlink information embedded, these illustrations can then be exported to the SVG format whilst retaining all the metadata.
