[Manifold-l] [OT] Acrobat reader / Acrobat reads U3D

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[ another attempt ]

 

Besides the release this week of Adobe Acrobat 8 (Professional, Standard,
and a stripped-down version called Elements), the free Acrobat Reader v8 is
available from the usual location (20Mb). 

I had never bothered with the 3D aspects of Acrobat Reader before, but this
<http://www.adobe.com/ap/products/acrobat/pdfs/3d_pdf_demo.pdf>  2.5Mb
sample file is good to play with in Reader v7 (7.0.8) - use your mouse to
zoom in an out on the gas turbine engine. It's super-quick. 

It uses the U3D ECMA standard (Universal 3D) which is described at the ECMA
site (look for ECMA-363), and is a Sourceforge project
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/u3d/). The 3D Industry Forum (3DIF)
cooperated with ECMA to develop the standard - see http://www.3dif.org
<http://www.3dif.org/> 

There are several CAD software products that can create the 3D PDF files.
Initiators of U3D seem to have been Intel Corporation, Adobe, and Bentley
Systems. 

 

Ian Thomas

GeoSciSoft - Perth, Australia

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