Export to over 100 file formats, including 3D PDF, to easily exchange files with colleagues and clients worldwide.
Enhanced! CGM support
Corel DESIGNER delivers increased support for CGM files, an industry-standard format critical to a range of sectors, including aerospace, defense and automotive. A redesigned CGM Export dialog box gives technical illustrators complete control when outputting a drawing to a CGM file. More CGM V4 profiles are supported, including S1000D (2.3, 3.0, 4.1) and ATA GREXCHANGE (2.8-2.12). Metadata support is improved, including enhanced Application Structure (APS) attribute handling. You can also now include Information Control Number (ICN) when using the S1000D profile and Graphic Number (GNBR) when using ATA GREXCHANGE. Corel DESIGNER also offers better CGM file importing, with improved handling of bitmap elements in CGM files.
Enhanced! 3D authoring
Lattice3D Studio Corel Edition has been enhanced for CorelDRAW Technical Suite 2017. This 3D-authoring application lets you open, edit, and modify 3D models and import 3D views into your technical illustrations You can now create vector illustrations and photo-realistic renderings from 3D views and send them to Corel DESIGNER or CorelDRAW, where you can import 3D models as 2D vector graphics to your drawings. You can also import IGES files, a 3D CAD exchange format that supports solid geometries. Lattice3D Studio Corel Edition also offers enhanced search-and-select functionality, a more streamlined UI, and improved display options for selections.
Enhanced! 3D CAD file options
Lattice3D Studio CAD Corel Edition is an optional add-on to CorelDRAW Technical Suite 2017 that offers additional 3D editing capabilities and direct access to 3D CAD assembly files without the steep learning curve of 3D CAD software. For this release, you can send multiple 3D views to Corel DESIGNER as vector illustrations in one go. What’s more, you can resend newer versions of views stored as snapshots to update existing illustrations in a DES file. In addition, illustrations sent to Corel DESIGNER no longer include a background rectangle, so objects behind the imported illustration aren’t hidden by a rectangular frame. 3D CAD file format support has been updated, including improved STEP file importing. You can take advantage of enhanced annotation features, display options, and more. You also have the flexibility of adding specific options from the standalone version of Lattice3D Studio, such as the Process PDF Template option, to a Lattice3D Studio CAD Corel Edition license.
Enhanced! File format compatibility
Corel DESIGNER has enhanced support for the latest versions of two formats widely used in technical publications, WebCGM and SVG, ensuring that you can easily exchange files with colleagues and clients worldwide and produce a range of downstream outputs. Corel DESIGNER also offers a range of PDF options, including publishing your document as a 3D PDF or to the ISO compliant PDF/A archiving format. In addition, if a PDF that you’re importing contains objects that fall outside the drawing page, you can now leave them intact or crop them to the drawing page. You can import from and export to more than 100 file formats, including EPS, DWG, TIFF, PNG, JPEG. What's more, files saved in the AI or PSD file format can be easily imported to Corel's ecosystem where work can continue without missing a beat.
New! Stylus tilt, bearing, and rotation
Increased support for a number of real-time input factors let you get more out of your stylus. In Corel DESIGNER, the new Expression tool lets you use pressure, tilt, and bearing to vary brushstrokes, and the improved Eraser tool is now responsive to your pen or stylus. Plus, stylus support has been enhanced in Corel PHOTO-PAINT for the Eraser tool, the Paint tool, and other brush tools. For more information, see Using pressure-sensitive pens and devices.
Increased support real-time input factors lets you get more out of your stylus.
Enhanced! Windows Real-Time Stylus Support
You can now take full advantage of the pressure and tilt of your RTS-compatible pen tablet or device to control your brushstrokes in CorelDRAW Technical Suite 2017. For more information, see Support for Real-Time Stylus (RTS) pen tablets and devices.
New! Microsoft Surface Dial support
If a Microsoft Surface Dial is part of your workflow, Corel DESIGNER offers native support on Windows 10 to give you a greater range of ways to create and interact with technology.
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