Drawings for Patents

[bartn]

Is anyone using ProE for patent drawings or would this be overkill? At my previous employer, after modeling thepart or assembly, wemade ProE drawingsfor thepatent attorneys and thier draftspersons just added find numbers and sometimes a bit of shading. It seems that all of this could be done in ProE or maybe export the files to something like Illustrator for final touches. Any comments?

 

[Kevin_A]

Sure, we do it all the time. You can even make tiff files or jpeg and do all the notations in whatever publisher you have.


I send the pro files to our patent attorney and they take care of it.

 

[slashct]

I used it all the time for documentation for both patent and manuals. We found the best thing is creating the views desired in a drawing and outputing the drawing as a cgm, black and white. You can bring the cgm in word, and other applications, they scale and print 100xs better than a Tiff and are much smaller. We just want black and white, so cgm is great for it and the lines look great, where in a Tiff if you rescale it will get thick.