ACD Canvas

Canvas 14

The ACD Systems company provided two new products in June, 2012: Canvas 14 and Canvas 14 +GIS. The problem of these products consists in transformation of technical data and professional illustrations into a full-fledged resource for managers and nontechnical personnel of the companies. The ACD Canvas 14 technology represents a convenient and economic method to transform two-dimensional drawings, schemes and images to intelligible drawings which can be used on all enterprise, and not just among engineering structure. In particular, using Canvas 14 engineers and designers can draw and edit technically exact drawings with a possibility of adding of summaries and comments. The Canvas +GIS add-on module provides adding of geodetails in an illustration.

The modern situation with huge amounts of data at each company sets new tasks of processing of these data. In particular, there is a task of transformation of difficult technical data into a clear form. For example, the designer of airplanes can draw the sketch of the latest liner which can be used in production. The same illustration can be used in marketing department for the advertizing brochure, for creation of infographics in information materials, for assistance to clients in a support service, in documentation for service staff and also in the presentation for Board of Directors. The packet of ACD Canvas 14 is designed to solve such problems.

The unique feature of a packet of ACD Canvas consists in a possibility of a free combination of raster and vector elements in one illustration, and work with them is carried out with the help of the same tools. Reuse of objects on an illustration is supported, and corporate effects allow to enter an additional design without prejudice to source objects. Function of creation of flowcharts helps to provide the most difficult information in an evident and logical form, and the module of import supports more than 100 popular industry file formats.

Drawing instruments in a packet of ACD Canvas help to put quickly different technical marks and the sizes of parts, and these marks can be finished consistently in a document approval process. In addition to purely technical means of drawing and registration, ACD Canvas 14 offers different embellishments and special effects to make illustrations more similar to the drawing of the professional technical artist, than on the "lifeless" assembly drawing.

Earlier created illustrations in ACD Canvas can be used as a basis for other works. All initial elements of drawings at the same time remain in original state even after a set of completions and changes. For the convenient address with illustrations in routine tasks the packet of Canvas offers own text editor, means of the publication, animation and demonstration of the presentations so need for additional software solutions is minimized. Besides, editing drawings in the PDF format is supported. At last, ACD Canvas supports the protected exchange of documents using enciphering and password protection – you can precisely define which of receivers of the document can browse, edit or print your illustrations.

Canvas 14 +GIS

The version of Canvas 14 +GIS differs in rich feature set and commands for work with geographical information. This packet supports all formats of geographic information systems, difficult development and projections of cards and also expanded transactions with subjects of the map. So extensive tools do Canvas +GIS packet by the irreplaceable solution for specialists in power, the space, automotive industry, in education and a public sector – in any market where use of graphics with a binding to the area is required.

Developers of a packet ACD Canvas divide the potential customers into two big segments: creators of illustrations and those who will use them. Experienced engineers and draftsmen act as authors, and the employee from any department of the organization which needs to study or convey important information to someone else in the most intelligible type can become consumers.