About QY CAD Illustrations

Technical illustrations communicate information about products and services. Illustrators often do not have access to 3D data, so they draw products from scratch using general purpose drawing applications. QY CAD Illustrations is an easy-to-use technical illustration program that leverages existing 3D data to publish a wide range of standard graphic, animation, and document formats. However, a 3D model is not required as a starting point; you also can start from a blank canvas to create illustrations.

QY CAD Illustrations is specifically focused on the creation of a storyboard of illustrations. Once a storyboard is complete, these illustrations are then published to your selected format. Some formats, like raster images, create a single image file for each illustration in the storyboard. Other formats, like interactive 3D PDF, allow you to choose a template and embed the illustrations in the PDF document as an interactive 3D animation.

Here are some scenarios when you should use QY CAD Illustrations:

• You want to batch-create images for insertion into Word, PowerPoint, Illustrator, or another software package.

• You want to quickly create a single-page interactive 3D PDF or HTML5 document using a template from the QY CAD Illustrations library.

Use QY CAD Illustrations to:

• Create illustrations by capturing views, and then use the 3D tools to explode views, add balloons and overlays, add 3D markups, and apply materials and custom rendering styles.

• Publish images, vectors or animations.

• Publish interactive 3D PDF through templates.

• Publish interactive 3D HTML5 through templates.

• Update illustrations quickly with 3D CAD designs change.

• Organize illustrations into a storyboard for animations.

• Manage large 3D models with configurations.

For more information, start with the QY CAD Illustrations workflow.