Boa Technology is looking for a Technical Illustrator for the Design & Illustration team in our Denver Rino office. This position supports all of our product categories. We need someone to create usable and easily understood 2D and 3D technical illustrations and documentation. Contact Jeanne at jea...

I'd love to see them offer single plug-ins available for purchase, broken out separately from the complete CADtools package. This way, users could purchase only the specific plug-ins they need, to fit their workflow. Similar to Astute Graphic's model. And $350 is a chunk of change to plunk down for...

This sounds pretty useful, Greg. Would it be accurate to describe it as "lite" version of Hot Door CADtools Axonometric Drawing tools? At $349 CADtools is pretty steep if you're only using a few of the tools, and adds a lot of bloat. Your next question is probably what people are willing to pay for ...

Great stuff, thanks Greg!

Your Ai Brushes collection looks useful too!

Amazing as always, abrown... I'd love to see some process shots!

Hey gang, I received a question through the suggest@technicalillustrators.org mailbox that I can't answer. I want to create a 3D interactive PDF of Spare parts in which i can link part list, callouts and exploded views of 3D model with each others ( for eg. if we take mouse point on 3D model, its ca...

Looking good, very detailed! Check out this script called Vary Hues . It allows you to vary or randomize the fill color, stroke color or opacity of the selected objects. In the case of the roof, what you could do is make a copy of the roof object with the shingle-pattern fill to a new layer. Then Ex...

Really great stuff! Well done guys!

I think Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator and fundamental.

I'm not a big fan of Adobe—I wish there was an alternative—but I think they're still the most fully-featured and widely-used pixel and vector editors respectively.

I've had a couple of projects where clients supplied vector output from CAD (probably SolidWorks). So far I've always redrawn/traced it with the Pen in Illustrator. It just makes for a cleaner basis for whatever I'm doing from there. A quick and dirty method I've used is selecting everything and mak...