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Sean Flaherty in Detail mag: "PDF is actually underutilized as a format. It is extremely popular as a sheet of electronic paper. But to use it to send geometry is something a lot of people never think about".

Just wondering if anyone out there exchanges geometry via pdf, and any hints/advice they may have. Thanks in advance - P

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Perhaps Sean was referring to vectorial geometry as compared with raster image.

Of course, theres AcrobatPro Extended :

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Currently, we don't support it directly. But, A9PE does support import of IFC files (which you can export from Vw), which are then saved/published as 3D PDFs. This way the model structure and all the objects and data associated via IFC are preserved (in other words, you don't just get a big single chunk of dumb geometry).

The Vestbanen Competition in Norway used this very technique in publishing the finalists' models to the web:

http://www.statsbygg.no/Utviklingsprosjekter/Nasjonalmuseet/Tre-vinnere/

BTW, the winner, Kleihues + Schuwerk, designed their project, forum artis, using Vectorworks Architect 2009 and 2010 - :-)

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