Corel DESIGNER® Technical Suite X4 has been updated with Service Pack 1 as Gérard already pointed out in his blog.
I want to direct your attention to a specific enhancement in this Service Pack: The Right Hemisphere® application Deep Exploration™ CE that has been updated to version 5.7.3 .
A major new feature in this Deep Exploration CE release is support for Solids when importing from 3D CAD systems. Solid Geometry support enables amazing results when creating technical illustrations from 3D source files with the new Deep Exploration CE version and Corel DESIGNER X4!The "Send to Corel DESIGNER" dialog in Deep Exploration CE has been enhanced to create bezier curves on vector output.
What's the benefit of that bezier curve output?
Here's a sample (CATIA V5 source file) of the illustration output as it can be created automatically (without manual rework) with Deep Exploration CE 5.7.3 and Corel DESIGNER X4 SP1:
Corel DESIGNER X4 SP1 with Deep Exploration CE 5.7:
Straight line segments to display curves:>> 44 segments to display pseudo curve
Bezier curve output with Deep Exploration 5.7.3 CE and optimization in Corel DESIGNER X4:>> Smooth curve, 4 nodes only
In order to fully exploit those benefits with Corel DESIGNER X4 SP1 you can use a collection of small macros* that further optimize the vector illustration output from Deep Exploration CE.You can download the 3DImportOpt.zip* archive that includes all necessary files.
There are 4 buttons in the "3D Import Optimization" tool bar. The first 2 buttons optimize the file structure and curves of a vector illustration imported from Deep Exploration 5.7.3 CE:
*Please note: There is no technical support from Corel for these macros! They are provided as is without any warranty or support.