Reply To: Technical manuals

I see your point, but I was hoping to hear from others who may have similar projects. I’ve been reading a lot of the articles, but some feedback from someone who has built a document like this would be helpful too.

Currently I PDF them, and usually this is a good solution since the PDFs in our document vault management system are revision controlled so I get a notification of a modified link if an engineer updates the drawing. There are quite a few that aren’t, or that I need to redraw to get the representation I need.

Solidworks will save to an AI or PSD file but I haven’t experimented with the things you can do there, and some of our models are HUGE.

Anyway, thank you for your suggestions, and I’ll keep reading, but the best way to make the interactive components is still my main focus.