When I listened to, and watched, Adobe’s briefing about Acrobat 3D, Rak Bhalla, Senior Marketing Manager, used Adobe Acrobat Connect to show me all of the cool things that Acrobat 3D could do. How cool was that? Here I was being shown all this cool technology via another cool technology that I didn’t, and still don’t, know about. For many of you, Acrobat Connect is probably nothing new, but I liked it. But, we’re not here for that, are we? No, we’re here to talk more about Acrobat 3D. How’s this for cool?
Can you say 150:1 compression ratio while still retaining details? For the example, I took a 60.8MB SolidWorks assembly, dragged it into Acrobat 3D, chose my settings and I ended up with a 646kb file! How much easier is it going to be for you to send your suppliers these little, tiny, fully detailed files? Oh, did I mention that if your supplier has Acrobat 3D, they can save out the files for, say, their CNC operations? These files (SolidWorks, CATIA, Pro/E, etc) are imported into Acrobat as highly precise CAD data. Precise enough to take accurate measurements or export to your CNC program.
Still more to come!
