Acrobat 3D – My First Attempt

Ok, so I’ve started messing around with Acrobat 3D. Now, as is typical of me, I’m just "doing it". No help files, no online assistance, nada. All I did was open Acrobat 3D, then Windows Explorer. I navigated to my native SolidWorks file and dragged it into Acrobat. Below is the result (Note – you may need to download the latest Adobe reader):
Download test_part.pdf

Pretty damn simple if you ask me! So far, I’m giving Acrobat 4 out of 5 stars. Only four because I tried to use the help menu that popped up when I started Acrobat, but it didn’t work…the software is a beta release, but I’m thinking that the help menu should work…shouldn’t it? More to come…

**Adobe engineers: Have you guys got that little issue I mentioned in my first post fixed yet?**

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April 1, 2007 · Posted in Software Review

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Gary Hall

Jeff,
I'm the same. I always just jump right in. I guess I figure all software should be intuitive enough that using help shouldn't be necessary for basic use; kind of like Solidworks.
I was able to make a quick 3D document. The Solidworks part was even a multi-body and it loaded right in. I just did an insert Solidworks part and it was loaded into the .pdf document. It didn't even have to open Solidworks (or it didn't appear to). Pretty cool.

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