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This is closer to what I had in mind when I mentioned photographs. Unless you
have the time, skill and resources for special lighting and background set-ups,
photos usually require so much post-processing to remove superfluous and
distracting items that it is often easier and faster to create line art of the
components you need to illustrate, especially if you have access to 3D CAD
models of products under development. Line art is also easier to update if
designs change before development is complete. But taking photos during dry
runs helps the process of deciding which steps need illustrations and what those
illustrations should show.
Gene Kim-Eng
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From: "Jon Leer" <jleer -at- leertech -dot- net>
When there's limited access time to a product, I found an integrated
solution useful.
Knowing what we had to capture and show in the equipment we needed to
document, we took digital photographs of the views we wanted to describe.
Then we handed them over to our graphics guy, who more easily/quickly
created line drawings with his graphics software. The diagrams simplified
the actual publishing process, were easier to read in the published
document, and easier to edit/update.
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