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As if pulled up on an imaginary shear, exploded views provide an insight into the inside of devices, machines and systems. They illustrate relationships clearly and help everyone to find,…

In addition to the subjective and collective perception of colors, the objective ability of each individual observer to process colors plays a role.

When using colors in technical communication, we must keep in mind the interpretation of colors in different cultures.

Sometimes it pays to think outside the box, in this case, outside the rice bowl. What we see there is a style guide for technical documents in Chinese and for…

The use of signal words has often been discussed at conferences, consultations or simply between colleagues.

Technical illustrations are becoming more and more efficient. Views are quickly generated with the 3D CAD model. But what to do when human-machine interactions make it necessary to represent that…

Manuals often hide secrets that we don't see or that we forget. We discover these secrets later when we take a second look at the online help, or someone shows…

We have the year 2021 and ingenious technology to quickly make a sketch. For example, pen and paper. Paper has existed in China for about 2000 years and spread from…

Functions are called, objects are transformed, views change - what seems like magic to casual users is an everyday tool that saves a lot of time for power users: shortcuts…

To illustrate a technical documentation, data from a CAD system is suitable. Two-dimensional objects are then created from three-dimensional objects. How can the data transfer be successful? Here are ten…