Now I'm looking at how feasible it is to do a 3D animation with Flash! Reason? I have all the vectors built so I have lot of the legwork done. Should I learn/switch to a 3D platform? Probably yes. But at the moment I still see it as chasing another rabbit hole.

@mattyr64 Thanks for pointing out about the settings in Word. Even though my PNGs were 300dpi, whenever I PDF'd my Word document my images looked less than sharp. And I used the highest quality PDF authoring setting. I looked under Word Options > Advanced > Image Size and Quality and found the defau...

I noticed you had used Swiffy for the flexible solar panel animations. I hadn't heard of Swiffy before, the internet will tell you all...
Good to know it works well. I love that sample btw. It's not just animation for the sake of it, but contains information.

I'm working for a client creating line-art illustrations for assembly manuals. Eventually their website will also need work and I'm keeping that in mind as I build my files. There may be need to have some of the working parts illustrated for viewing on the web. Is Flash still the way to go for anima...

The more I'm punting this idea around, the more I'm inclined to produce the technical manuals in Adobe Indesign.
I realize it's not the standard program for this sort of thing, but if there's no collaborative writing, and reviews will be PDF based, then I don't see why I need to stick with Word.

Seems to work pretty well. Again, the preview on screen can look choppy, but then looks fine in printout and as a PDF. Does depend on what PDF writer you use...

Is it okay to use EPS in a Word doc? The images look really weird on screen, but perhaps they print out better.

Thanks for the reply. Yup, I'm using Adobe Illustrator for now. Is it ideal? I'm currently using a Creo viewer to get the isometric projection that works for me, then I make a PDF, bring it into Illustrator, then redraw. It's not perfect, but a vast improvement from what they have been doing to date...

FYI....James gives me kick-backs for each thread I start on here. Here is my newest. I'm trying to find best-practices for reusing content in Illustrator. Originally I thought I would create multiple layers for each "step" I'm illustrating. This has worked for the most part, but I'm running issues w...

Thanks for the responses. Yeah I found it interesting that the Latice3D people had little or now information as to product cost. I don't like when the only way you can find out what a piece of software costs is by having them contact you. Anyway, the company I'm with uses PTC Crea for some of their ...