Technical Illustration

As the preferred choice of technical illustrators in precision industries, Canvas 14 comes with all the powerful vector object illustration and advanced raster image editing tools you need, in one integrated, flexible design environment.

Technical Illustration and Enhancement with Greater Control

Work with vector and raster images

Canvas’ integrated design environment lets you work with both vector graphics and raster images in the same document, with the same powerful enhancement tools.

Draw and Edit with Precision

Resize and scale objects, add fill and stroke inks, widths and other attributes, and draw shapes – all with measured precision and placement. Take advantage of specialized tools to draw complex shapes including rounded rectangles, complex polygons, cubes, spirals, grids and rectangular boxes in isometric views. Draw and edit paths and curve segments using the control points that define them.

Add on-the-fly illustration objects

Instantly add re-usable dynamic objects to drawings. Access thousands of commonly used and specialized technical symbols from Canvas 14's pre-loaded Symbol Library collection, or create your own custom symbols using any vector, text or composite object.

Symbol categories include:

Work flexibly with vector objects

Illustrate, edit and augment all forms of complex visual objects with Canvas 14's wide variety of professional tools and powerful Sprite technology. Canvas’ proprietary SpriteLayers™ and SpriteEffects™ can be used to apply image and transparency effects without rendering; all your graphics remain completely editable. Specialized technologies such as channel masks, vector masks, gradient transparency tools and opacity effects are also available for advanced techniques.

ANNOTATE, ENHANCE and DIMENSION

Enhance your technical vision with Canvas 14. Add clarity to your illustration with labels or text, add format dimensions, create dynamic charts, or use Canvas’ unique lens for a more detailed view.

Add format dimensions

Canvas 14's Linear, Chain and Baseline Dimensioning tools precisely control horizontal, vertical, oblique and perpendicular distances; measure diameter, radius, angle, area and perimeter; and mark the centers of arcs and ovals.

Add comments and mark-up

Use Canvas 14's annotation tools to add labels or callouts to your diagrams and illustrations, complete with custom and automated options such as single and multiple diagram line connections. And if you re-position the annotation label object, the SmartLines(tm) connecting it to the illustration move right along with it.

Ensure the highest levels of precision

Work with very small units of measure with engineered accuracy and control. Canvas 14’s drawing engine fully supports the IEEE floating point standard used throughout the scientific, engineering, medical and biotechnology industries. Canvas is indispensable to professionals who work with images that contain up to 32 bits of floating point data per channel.

Work within industry standards

Create dimension objects that fully conform to existing industry and government standards, including:

• IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineer's) floating point standard;
• ANSI (American National Standards Institute) U.S. Product and industry standards;
• DIN (Deutsches Institut für Normung/German Institute for Standardization) internationally adopted standards;
• JIS (Japanese Industrial Standard) standards.

Customize these standard settings by editing the size of lines, gaps, text and tolerances, modifying them for new and unique workflows, and saving them for ongoing use in similar work contexts.

Do more with text

Add professionally formatted and fully editable text to vector objects and raster images. Create multi-page text documents and technical publications using a full range of traditional text formatting, proofing, annotation and style tools.

SHARE

Canvas 14 makes it quick and easy to share your vision with professional publications and presentations, and to work collaboratively with colleagues.

Access professional publishing tools

There's no need to use a separate word processor or layout program when you have Canvas 14. A full range of traditional text formatting and style tools are on hand to help you format pages, create columns, layout text, wrap and bind. Tap into editing, proofing and annotation tools to perfect your copy.

Create documents for every purpose

Canvas 14 offers time-saving templates to make it easy to get a head start on any project:

Collaborate with ease

Share, discuss and develop projects with colleagues in a free-flowing document exchange. Canvas 14's advanced import and export capabilities allow for the return of annotated illustrations to the high-end specialized formats where they originated, without data loss.

Share with confidence

Apply secure encryption and password protection whenever you save your Canvas document or export to Adobe®PDF. You have full control over who can open, edit and print your designs, and your rich Canvas data. Canvas editing ability can be preserved, even through the PDF conversion process.

Preserve Canvas data in a PDF files - NEW

Convert your Canvas 14 document to a PDF file for sharing or storage and the native Canvas data will remain imbedded in the file. Re-open your file in Canvas for further editing, with no loss of your data or formatting