Getting Started with Document3D

This page will help you get started with QuadriSpace Software. You'll be up and running in a jiffy!

Welcome to the Document3D Help Center and thank you for choosing QuadriSpace products for your technical publishing needs.

On this help site, you will find tutorials, links to reference help, helpful articles and a discussion area for seeking answers and asking questions.

What can I do with Technical Publishing Solutions?

QuadriSpace products empower companies to reuse their 3D CAD files for technical documentation needs. With our technical publishing solutions, users can import existing 3D, create professional documents or illustrations sets and then deliver these to standard formats.

Import

• SolidWorks, Creo, Inventor, Solid Edge, JT, Pro/E, STEP, IGES, and more

Create

• Work Instructions
• Illustrated Parts Catalogs
• User Manuals
• Service
• Technical Illustrations
• Training Materials
• Sales and Marketing Materials

Deliver

• Printed Materials or Standard PDF Files
• Standard Raster and Vector Graphics for use in Word, InDesign, Illustrator
• 3D PDF Files viewable in the Standard Adobe Reader without plugins
• Private Online Content based on HTML5 and WebGL, no plugins required
• Public Web Pages based on HTML5 and WebGL, no plugins required
• Native 3D Materials viewable with the free Reader3D software

What do the individual QuadriSpace Solutions do?

QuadriSpace provides a whole products solution for technical publishing. This solution includes a Illustration Environment for illustration creation, and a Document Environment for document authoring. This combination of products and cloud services makes it easy to create impressive documentation and deliver high-quality legacy printed materials or modern interactive web documentation.

Illustration Environment (Standard, Pro, Enterprise)

The illustration environment is used to create technical illustrations. Sets of illustrations can be:

• published to raster graphics such as PNG, JPG and TIF
• published as vector graphics such as SVG, EPS or PS
• published to standard outputs like PDF, 3D PDF and Word
• used in other programs like Word, InDesign or Illustrator

Document Environment (Pro, Enterprise)

The documentation environment is used to create final technical documents. Multiple-page documents can be:

• printed
• published as standard PDF files
• published as interactive 3D PDF files
• published as interactive 3D HTML web pages
• saved as single-file 3D HTML for easy sharing by email

Which Document 3D plan is right for me?

When deciding which product to purchase, it is often a matter of determining what primary outputs you are seeking from the software. The 3D tools are common between the products, making it easy to learn one and migrate between the products for different deliverable requirements.

Standard versus Pro

• Standard and Pro include the Illustration Environment for producing professional illustrations.
• Pro also includes the Documentation environment for creating multiple-page documents.
• Standard and Pro create raster images and vector graphics from existing 3D files.
• Pro creates final printed or interactive documents from existing 3D files.
• Pro includes page design tools for text, images, tables, buttons and more for creating full documents.
• Both plans include professional 3D features.
• Both plans can create 3D PDF files the difference is that Pro enables free-form page design and Standard only publishes into pre-defined templates.
• Pro includes all of the features of Standard.

Document3D Enterprise

Document3D Enterprise includes all the features of Pro but adds Creo and Pro/E support and XLIFF support for language translation of documents.

Highlighted Capabilities

Document3D includes the following time-saving capabilities suitable for manufacturing companies and others commercial projects.

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Smart Template Technology™

This lets you rapidly create a step-by-step process from an exploded view. This saves a significant amount of time since the viewpoints, visible parts and selected parts are all set up automatically based on the exploded view. You can also rapidly create a series of isolated part views from a parts list.

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Update Capabilities

With the update tools you can update entire sets of illustrations by re-importing the 3D model. This is especially useful because it allows users to get started on graphics before the design phase is complete and when 3D CAD designs change, little work is needed to update graphics.

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Configurations and Merge Models

Makes it easy to work with large models. Configurations allow you to define and work with subsets of parts. With merge models 3D CAD from various (and often different) CAD programs can be merge together. Users use this when the primary designs is better explain with props or tools in some graphics.

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Vector Graphic Publishing

This provides an additional publishing format. Vectors, or line drawings, can be published to a variety of common vector formats.