Can VW do this?

[ErichR]

This is amazing - an interactive 3D PDF. If VW could do this with PDFs, it would be a supurb graphics tool for communicating concepts with clients. The key is to utilize an app that clients already have.

http://www.lightolier.com/MKACatpdfs/FXESR_3D.PDF

Anyone know how to make this work? With- or without VW?

[mike m oz]

3D viewing of a VW model has been available using Export to QuickTime VR Object for quite some time.

The only difference is this has it embedded in a document. The Adobe Software for creating these documents is available now for Windows - be warned though it is not cheap.

[ErichR]

The point is, a PDF document and app is available to anyone - free; VW is not.

[graz]

Mike's solution is available to anyone as well. As long as you have quicktime installed.

[ErichR]

Only if 'anyone' can fork over $$ and buy VW (and learn how to use it) is it available. And it has nowhere near the features of Acrobat 3D.

Addobe Acrobat 3D is US$995.

Reader, what you use to interactively view a 3D PDF file, is US$0.

[Dave Donley]

Quicktime Player (to view QuickTimeVR movies) is free too.

Acrobat 3D is like the old QuickDraw 3D viewer in an OpenDoc(!) document.

[VectorGeek]

Only if 'anyone' can fork over $$ and buy VW (and learn how to use it) is it available.

Erich you are not following.

VW makes QuickTime VR's, which can be played in the FREE QuickTime Player.

That said, the functionality of 3D PDF seems to go somewhat beyond what QTVR has to offer (at least in its current incarnation).

V-G

Edited October 30, 2007 by VectorGeek

[islandmon]

Acrobat Pro will embed QTVR > PDF with editing, links,etc.

The key is to utilize an app that clients already have.

QTVR ...also, embeds seamlessly in HTML.

HTML is by far the simplest embed and easiest to manage and probably the most cost effective, too. Viewable with every modern browser.

[VectorGeek]

But Erich does have a point with regards to 3D PDF (look at the link he provided). Imagine a building (or whatever) model that the viewer could control rendering style, layer (class) visibility, as well as the standard rotational/zoom controls. All within Acrobat. Hmmmmmmmm.....

V-G

[islandmon]

Maybe some VW users have nothing worth protecting but in a competitive market like project building...we do.HTH

Currently, PDF security appears to be notoriously inconsistent and/or easily defeated.

We use PublicKey encrypted server certificates with various access & file permissions.

Files can always we strong encrypted prior to sending.

[ErichR]

The Adobe 3D demo/pitch is worth watching all of the way through.

One feature, extreme compression, probably can't be equalled by QT without severe loss of quality.

Maybe this sort of Adobe advance is ultimately good for the consumer; Apple needs to expand the Quicktime basic and pro feature sets. Apple has dumbed down QT a couple of times (that I'm aware of) in quest of the almighty buck with its Pro version. Granted, $30 is a lot cheaper than $995.

[Richard T]

I have seen some fantastic 3D PDF work created using Microstation, allowing you to follow a preset "flythrough" animated path, or move through a model on your own independent path, rotate, zoom etc, along with changing rendering, turning on/off layers etc. Of course, that doesn't help the original question