3D PDF - Anyone Heard of This?
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So my current employer is getting into the 3D PDF business, and I have to say this is probably the coolest thing I have seen Adobe Acrobat Reader be able to do with 3D CAD data. What this technology does is that it allows non-engineers to be able to consume engineering data in a easy format. Anyone else out there seen this type of technology before?
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I have not, but it sounds very cool. Is it available now?
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I heard about it some years ago but never dived into it ...
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@Bill-Kindle said:
So my current employer is getting into the 3D PDF business, and I have to say this is probably the coolest thing I have seen Adobe Acrobat Reader be able to do with 3D CAD data. What this technology does is that it allows non-engineers to be able to consume engineering data in a easy format. Anyone else out there seen this type of technology before?
Have not seen that. What a great idea, though.
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It is pretty cool, and the neat thing is that you don't need to have the CAD application on your PC to view the file, just the latest and greatest Adobe Reader. I sent a inquiry off to FoxIT Software to ask if they are incorporating this tech in their future reader and got a response that they were looking into it but it's not going to be available anytime soon. So, for now, Adobe's going to be the dominate force for reading these documents.
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Bluebeam will work with CAD as well. http://www.bluebeam.com/us/products/revu/cad.asp
We have been buying the CAD edition to eliminate using Acrobat Standard. If you just want to read the drawings and maybe print them, you can use the free Autodesk DWG TrueView app. -
@DenisKelley said:
Bluebeam will work with CAD as well. http://www.bluebeam.com/us/products/revu/cad.asp
We have been buying the CAD edition to eliminate using Acrobat Standard. If you just want to read the drawings and maybe print them, you can use the free Autodesk DWG TrueView app.I don't believe those apps are quite the same thing. I'm talking the high-end CAD software realm, like CATIA and Siemens Unigraphics / Team Center.
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@Bill-Kindle said:
@DenisKelley said:
Bluebeam will work with CAD as well. http://www.bluebeam.com/us/products/revu/cad.asp
We have been buying the CAD edition to eliminate using Acrobat Standard. If you just want to read the drawings and maybe print them, you can use the free Autodesk DWG TrueView app.I don't believe those apps are quite the same thing. I'm talking the high-end CAD software realm, like CATIA and Siemens Unigraphics / Team Center.
I thought you were talking about viewers for people who don't already use 3D CAD software. Yeah, we already have that with AutoCAD Civil3D and there are others. Sorry if I misunderstood you.
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When I get some screenshots I'll try and post them here. We have some marketing material coming soon that talks about it.
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Cool. Definitely interested.
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I'd love to see it.
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Here's a rough sample of Adobe. This does not contain any other nice features ATM, those are in the marketing material I'm told.
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@bill-kindle Ok, too freaking cool!
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That's not even the half of it. I can pull in data and put that data into a custom template, giving you much more than shown here. But yeah, you can rotate that in 3D space, just like you would in a normal CAD app.
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@Bill-Kindle Heard about it. PDF spec has many cool features....which can also be used for malevolence as PDF virus trend has shown.
Good to see the 3D bits actually implemented.
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I agree with Rogue, I really don't like seeing the PDF format adding all of this functionality. I wish it would be a different file format and keep PDF back to their original purpose, cross platform identical printing/viewing. all these bonus features just add more avenues for hackers - Adobe has shown they can't make anywhere near clean code, flash anyone?
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@Dashrender I understand your concern. But the way I understand the technology right now is that all its allowing you do do is see geometry in 3D space. You can't actually do a whole lot of anything with it other than get representations and other CAD related info. Not quite the same thing as a static picture embedded into a PDF.
Right now I think a lot of the auto industry and their suppliers are going to be the primary benefactors of this tech.
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@bill-kindle all it's allowing you to do, is allow virus writers to incorporate java-script and other programs that can take over your computer.
I understand that Adobe is trying to be the single interface for anything you might view on your computer, but the risk is really just to great.
If you're a company that needs to view 3D images and see geometry, you most likely already have free viewers for the products that produce the image files in the first place.
Ultimately it's not that I don't want a single product that does it all, that would be great - But Reader has more security holes than Carter has little liver pills. it's as bad or worse than Java.
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@Dashrender Not with the level of detail that the product I'm testing allows for. Adobe however was not the company that developed this tech, they bought the company that did develop it.
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More technical info here for anyone interested in this technology:
http://www.tetra4d.com/
