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MUNICH, Germany, June 8, 2009 - German CAD/CAM developer Schott Systeme GmbH, is dramatically reducing the time required to generate professional technical illustrations through the use of their CAD and technical documentation suite, Pictures by PC 3.4. 

Being one of the industry's few solutions to seamlessly combine 2D and 3D CAD with technical illustration and desktop publishing, Pictures by PC is already proving an essential tool in the creation of documentation such as product manuals, catalogues and sales/marketing brochures. To further compliment these tools, a new release of the software now sees the company streamlining the most time consuming part of the technical documentation process, that of generating legible and professional illustrations.

Direct Model Simplification

The current trend of including the minutest of details on a CAD model is one that will frustrate many illustrators, as generally only a simplified diagram of the product is required. To help overcome this, Schott Systeme have included a new suite of 'defeaturing' tools. Based on their direct 'non feature' based 3D modeller, designs from almost any CAD system can be imported and subsequently simplified in preparation for illustration, without requiring the original CAD software. This process includes the location and automatic removal of overcomplicated 3D detail such as ribs, embossed text and logos, as well as unwanted fillets and chamfers. The result is a simplified version of the design generated in a matter of clicks, in preparation for further illustration.

Technical Outline Defeaturing

Providing an alternate approach to that of actually modifying the 3D product data, Schott Systeme have in addition supplied the user with the ability to defeature the illustration during the actual rendering process. Moreover, this approach enables the simplification of illustrations on poor quality CAD models that cannot easily be modified in 3D, in addition to instantly reducing the detail level of complex features such as screw threads and gear wheels. Simplification of these illustrations is undertaken during the rendering of an image, and by using a dedicated ‘thick and thin’ outline shader, differing line weights automatically help depict and illustrate the product in its simplest form.

About Schott Systeme GmbH 

Celebrating over 25 years of CAD/CAM excellence, Schott Systeme continues to develop the software solution originally launched back in 1983. Starting out as one of the very first vector based graphics packages for the PC, their product 'Pictures by PC' as the name suggests, has evolved into one of the most mature CAD/CAM and technical documentation products available today. Being a fully integrated 2D/3D CAD, CAM and graphics package, Pictures by PC caters for all aspects of workshop machining, through to product design and documentation.