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Germany were different from those used in Spain. “Thus, as time went on, different applications arose as
a reason for lack of standardisation”, Airbus Project Manager Noël Andrieu from Toulouse remembers. An
exchange of illustrations in original format is thus only possible with great effort.
Each location and its supplying illustration offices, the so-called contractors, will convert the existing
technical illustrations into the TIFF format (CCITT G4) and finally save them in the central archives in
Toulouse. Such a quality is sufficient for prints or for the use of documents in paper form. When an
illustration is also needed in another location it will be delivered using this raster format.
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Definition of a standard catalogue
Since the merger of the individual companies, the aim of Airbus has been to obtain a better “look and feel“
for the whole technical documentation and
provide them with additional features
which allow any customer and location to
identify them as an Airbus illustration. For
instance, all illustrations have to be
prepared in WebCGM format (using the
WebCGM Plug-In from Auto-trol
Technology) for an interactive usage. This
vector format, suitable for Internet, allows
the usage of so-called “hot spots” with
which it is possible to link illustrations in
order to show details. With this format the
user can have access to enlargements of
details and, if necessary, the possibility to
process them without any loss of quality.
When using a raster format one would
quickly be limited by its given resolution.
Project Manager Noël Andrieu soon added
the usage of colour to the standard
catalogue as it helps the perception of the
observer. Thus, the human eye may seize
the technical facts about 30% faster. The
integration of images in form of photos and
graphics was another wish.
As the original supplier has not further developed the illustration software used so far, Airbus started to
look for a new system on the market in January 2002. “This new system should support corresponding
import and export filters as well as respect all standards of the aviation industry as for instance ATA iSpec
2200“, says Jean-Paul Gerhardt as he describes the most important requirements. “A further criterion of
choice was the performance of the programming interface in order to adapt the illustration tool to internal
business processes and meet a corporation-wide binding illustration policy.“
After an intensive exchange of views among all European divisions the new project-division prepared a
feasibility study under the direction of Mr Noël Andrieu: “It was important for us that all those who would
later use the new software be implicated from the very beginning on. “
The future illustration guidelines were thus defined together in the form of Style Guides which exactly
define, for example, how an edge situated in the foreground should look like and on which level a certain
line has to be. No problems due to differences of mentality arose in those internationally-composed
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teams. “Questions were asked and it was tried to get to the bottom of apparent obviousness. Thus
misunderstanding is avoided and harmonisation is achieved much faster”, reports Mr Andrieu. “After all,
each Style Guide has been defined by the actual end-users from the relevant departments. “
In August 2002, the company made a Benchmark test opposing two systems which existed on the market.
After these very intensive tests, Airbus decided to choose Tech IllustratorTM from Auto-trol Technology in
Düsseldorf. One important criterion of choice was the convincing quality of the programming interface.
“This is the philosophy applied for all our products“, explains Mr Wolfgang Scholz, Manager of Auto-trol in
Germany. “It offers our customers maximal flexibility which allows adapting each application exactly to the
needs of the company. “ Thus you
will find these developed software
solutions as standard solutions not
only in the aeroplane industry but
also in the automobile industry.
The company in-house illustration
guidelines to obtain a common “look
and feel“ were established in
Hamburg and Toulouse using the
“Tech Illustrator PlusTM (SDK)“
development tool and further
programs like External Access and
ObjeX/AGL. The customisation is
logically separated from the actual
Tech Illustrator-System using API
interface (Application Programming
Interface). This offers the advantage that the regular further development of the software may be adopted
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