June 2007 Archives

A great source of information that can be found on the Adobe website is the recorded eSeminars that we have done through out the year. Over the past couple of months we have held several on Acrobat 3D and Tim Huff has put on a weekly eSeminar series for AEC. Usually the first question we get during the live event is will this be recorded? The answer is yes, and the next question is “where do I find these?” The easiest way I have found to get to the main events page is to navigate directly there. The Adobe Events page can be found at http://www.adobe.com/events. On the right hand side of the page you can see the OnDemand link which will take you there. You can then filter by product and also by industry.

Have fun,

Jonathan

One of the great workflows that extends the lifecycle of your 3D assets is creating technical publications.  How many times today do you use the 3D asset after detailed engineering?  Technical Publications are a great way of doing things like assembly/disassembly instructions, proof of concept, product manuals, etc. You can see some examples of technical publications at the bottom of the Acrobat 3D examples webpage.  To get started with technical publications you need to know a couple tips & tricks to get you started.

This is a very simple process.  The key is that you have to have Adobe Illustrator installed on your computer.  All you have to do is open the PDF in Adobe Illustrator and save the file as a .dxf file format.  Then you simply open the .dxf in AutoCAD.

We are just wrapping up trade show season and it was a huge success. Two weeks ago we released Acrobat 3D version 8 and we updated the content on the website. With the new conversion format of PRC Brep you need to have Reader 8.1 to view the files.

Have fun,

Jonathan

In the new release of Acrobat 3D version 8, you have the ability to export the model back out of the pdf.  The file formats we support for this are STEP, IGES, VRML, and Parasolid.  There are a couple of tips and tricks though I thought you should know.