Claude skill · technical illustration

Build the model.
Render every view.

A Claude skill that explains how things work with explorable figures, not walls of text. Exploded views, cutaways, and live state diagrams on faint graph paper. A figure becomes a model that yields many views, not a drawing.

TEM—1 figure engine
MODELVIEWPLATE
CONCEPTDEEPTECH
SVG + vanilla JS · one file · no build

Explain anything. One figure, many views.

Drag it, scrub it, step through it. It prints like a datasheet.

17rules
5gold figures
2accents
SVG
MODEL parts, nesting, states encoded as data
COUPLE one scrub drives explode + orbit + section
CAMERA auto-frames the most informative angle
HONEST real magnitudes, tolerances, units on the figure
Download .skill
CONCEPT sells the idea · DEEPTECH shows the engine
01Gold-standard figures

Built with the skill. Open one.

Each is a single self-contained file. Drag, scrub, toggle, step.

02The rules

Two tiers. Look right, then be ours.

Ten rules borrow the school's fidelity. Seven more turn a drawing into a model.

fidelity · 1–10

Make it look right

Decompose then compose. Color is a stable identity, never decoration. Reveal the hidden. The diagram leads, prose only glues. Annotate in place. Quiet chrome, loud content. Spatial order mirrors causality. One house style. Progressive disclosure. Curiosity as the entry point.

model · 11–17

Make it ours

Model, don't draw, then render many views from the data. Couple the controls. Depth is navigable. The camera has intent. Be data-honest with real units. Linked multi-view. A mechanism is a state machine, and the figure proves the logic.

03Install

One file, no build step.

▸ claude code
# personal, available in every project
unzip technical-explanatory-minimalism.skill -d ~/.claude/skills/

# then just ask
explain how a four-stroke engine works as an interactive figure
▸ claude.ai
Settings Capabilities Skills upload the .skill file.
▸ get it

Turn your next explanation into a figure.