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• IETM / IETP Development
Interactive technical manuals
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International content standards
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Convert and create structured content
• Technical Writing
Authoring of operator, repair and maintenance manuals
• Parts Catalogs / Provisioning
Complete parts management
• File Conversions
Update and use old data and images
• Graphics, Technical Illustration
Original drawings, legacy conversion
See 'Smart Graphics' Animation
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Technical course development
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Logistics management and support
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Complete support of technical projects
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Drawing • Conversion • Animation • Intelligent Graphics

Technical Illustration Services

New technical drawings or converting legacy formats — no limits...

Our technical illustrators prepare supporting graphics for all authored technical material.

The illustrators develop artwork electronically on a wide variety of native systems using the most recent releases of software.

In addition to providing most native file formats, we can provide a variety of vector and raster formats according to customer need.

Our illustrators can render the most complex exploded views and functionalized wiring diagrams. Our staff of technical illustrators produces graphics from the simplest block diagrams and line conversions to the most complex.



Intelligent Graphics

We are expert in technical illustrating, graphic conversions, and software engineering to create intelligent graphics, illustrations which respond to actions applied to them when viewed electronically.

Our illustrators apply unique coding to vector graphics which then enables selected portions of the graphic to be highlighted in a variety of ways.

We have successfully deployed this technology for an award-winning major U.S. Army initiative to extend the useful life of materiel cargo assets currently employed throughout the world.


Our technical illustration experts regularly prepare all kinds of drawings,
intelligent graphics, diagrams, charts, exploded part views and more
in all types of graphical file formats.





   



For example, components highlight in a schematic or wiring diagram when the user brings their mouse over or clicks on the illustrations.

Links continue across pages - multi-page drawings link, continuing to highlight a selected circuit from one page to the next, providing a coherent path to the solution. Moreover, these highlights can activate from external programs like IETMs or web pages so that hypertext links in those documents activate features on the intelligent graphic.

Conversion Services

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DTB's graphic conversion capabilities:

DTB-Graphics-Conversion.pdf - 296 Kb

Our technical illustrators use COTS and specialized software to develop final illustrations by extracting and repurposing data from engineering files for use in prepared documentation.
Graphic libraries are developed which result in schedule efficiencies and cost reduction.

Conversions of graphics from native authoring and publishing systems are performed for inclusion into documents and databases.
Our technical illustrators specialize in developing true, mathematically-based, vector formats from scanned or existing raster graphics. This guarantees full vector compliance and re-usability for future modifications and intelligent graphic applications.

We have successfully completed this process for tens-of-thousands of raster and composite illustrations for both the U.S. Government and major DoD prime contractors.




Our mainstay technical illustration applications:

- AutoTrol (Technical Illustrating) (Sun UNIX) - AutoCad - Adobe Acrobat 3D -
- Adobe Illustrator - Adobe Photoshop - Corel Designer Technical -
- Corel Active CGM Author - Isodraw - Enovia (Navigator) -
- Microstation - Product View - Quark Express - Right Hemisphere - Visio 2000 -