Acrobat 3D – More Cool Stuff

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!

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April 2, 2007 · Posted in Software Review

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Devon Sowell

$1,000.00!!
I can picture this:
"Ah Honey, Can I spend $1,000.00 so I can make Acrobat 3D files?"
"No way!"
Adobe needs a reality check.
Devon
Jeff Mirisola

Devon,
I believe the price is $999/seat. I'll find out and get back to you.
Jeff
Devon Sowell

Hi Jeff-
Very informative.
What's the price?
Thanks,
Devon T. Sowell
www.3-ddesignsolutions.com
Michael Kaplan

Actually, the data can be accurate enough for exact measurement. Deelip is correct that measurement in the Adobe Reader is done on tessellated data (as it is in many CAD visualization systems), but the 3D data in the PDF can be exported to STEP, IGIS, etc. from Acrobat 3D 8 and then measured exactly in your favorite high-end application. Hence, I believe the original comment is correct.
Michael Kaplan
Director of Engineering, Acrobat 3D
Adobe Systems Incorporated
Deelip Menezes

"These files (SolidWorks, CATIA, Pro/E, etc) are imported into Acrobat as highly precise CAD data. Precise enough to take accurate measurements".
Not quite so. The measurements are taken based on the render mesh (not on the NURBS model) which is far from accurate. Look at the model in wireframe mode and you will see what I mean.

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