Greetings > Andy Pugh wrote: > If you click the "jpg" and have a recent version of Acrobat youshould > get a 3D-viewable model. > > However, I have no idea how widespread the 3D PDF format is, it was > just what was available on my machine when it was running Windows and > modelling in Alibre. >
This functionality was in Acrobat 9 and, I think Acrobat 8. The standard free "Adobe Reader" - though not all plugins - will render the 3d views. You can rotate, section -based on an offset from any of the principal planes - and even rotate the cutting plane. Most such PDFs include the model tree in which you can hide parts of the assembly (e.g. a cover). Example at www.castlewoodconsultants.com/Misc/Example3DPDF.JPG With Acrobat 9 Professional you open a document with whitespace to place the 3D model, use Tools>Multimedia>3D Tool and drag a rectangle, you are prompted for the name of a .u3d file to display in it. The .u3d file comes from your 3D CAD package. I use Pro|E where it is a File>Save As a Copy but Google suggests Alibre and Solidworks both export in this format too. The CAD feature tree becomes the tree in the .u3d file. The bad news is that Adobe have dropped the functionality in the latest version (Acrobat X) John Prentice ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
