RE: IsoDraw in FM docs

["Bilsland, Alex (Bolton)" <abilslan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Christa and all others:

I am new to this group. I find all your questions and answers very
interesting and extremely helpful.

In reply to your question, Christa, about the suitability of ISO Draw for
Telecommunications, IMHO, it is too sophisticated a tool for network
topology and related diagrams. If you are producing manuals for hardware,
where you may need detailed exploded views to support maintenance tasks,
then you might need this sort of tool. Otherwise, you are probably better
served by Corel Draw or Visio.

Apparently, ISO Draw has a good CGM file import and export capability which
makes it useful for using graphics from high end CAD systems such as
Unigraphics et al. It really depends on what sort of illustrations you need
to provide. Even here though, we have an illustrator who is experienced with
Corel Draw and the CGM files we export from Unigraphics transfer very
cleanly to Corel Draw.

I hope this helps.

Regards,

Alex Bilsland
Husky Injection Molding Systems Ltd.
Robotics Division
Phone: 905-951-5000, ext. 3903
e-mail: abilslan@husky.on.ca


-----Original Message-----
From: Hutchings, Christa [mailto:cwhutchings@homewireless.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 1999 2:24 PM

Can anyone
give me a comparison between CorelDraw and IsoDraw, especially vis-a-vis
using the latter with FM? We are in the telecommunications industry
(integrated data and voice networking systems) and I'm also wondering if
IsoDraw is overkill for our purposes - anyone got any thoughts on this? 


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