Out-of-the-Box Solution for Service Manuals

By DE Editors

September 18, 2007 -- PTC (Needham, MA) announced an out-of-the-box solution for creating, publishing, and delivering technical service manuals. Built on Arbortext dynamic publishing software, this solution enables customers to publish high-quality service manuals with embedded interactive illustrations quickly with minimal configuration.

The service manual application is enabled by the latest release of the following Arbortext dynamic publishing software: Arbortext Editor, which combines the ability to create text in reusable components that are automatically configured and formatted, as well as lets the user insert 2D and 3D technical illustrations and animations created with Arbortext IsoDraw.

Arbortext IsoDraw lets the user create technical illustrations from scratch or by reusing 3D Pro/Engineer or other CAD design models. Arbortext IsoDraw 7.0 maintains the link to the original CAD file to ensure the illustration or animation is automatically updated if the design changes. Arbortext IsoDraw 7.0 now supports ProductView formats as a basis for illustration creation. Arbortext IsoView enables viewing of interactive 2D and 3D technical illustrations and animations. This optional software is delivered as an ActiveX plug-in to document viewers and provides viewing, interaction, and redlining capabilities to illustrations and animations created with Arbortext IsoDraw and all common vector and raster image formats.

Windchill is an optional component that offers advanced content management and configuration management capabilities required for full automation of the authoring and publishing process.

For more information about Arbortext products and applications, please visit the Arbortext product pages at PTC.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company's website.