Jim Smith Posted March 22, 2011 Share Posted March 22, 2011 I was impressed by some work posted by WinB; 3-D PDF's that are really quite good. I would love to be able to send this kind of information to clients, but from the little I've been able to find out, there don't seem to be any for Mac. Anyone using this on a Mac? Quote Link to comment
Mitch Brooks Posted March 26, 2011 Share Posted March 26, 2011 Hi Jim Where can we see some of these PDFs? Mitch Quote Link to comment
Win B. Posted March 26, 2011 Share Posted March 26, 2011 Mitch, please see attached mechanical model. Win B. Quote Link to comment
michaelk Posted March 26, 2011 Share Posted March 26, 2011 What software created the 3D pdf? mk Quote Link to comment
Win B. Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 Microstation V8I from a VW2011 DWG export. wb Quote Link to comment
Mitch Brooks Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 I am just getting an empty blank PDF. Mitch Quote Link to comment
michaelk Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 You have to open it in Adobe Reader mk Quote Link to comment
Win B. Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 Adobe Reader 9.4 (Windows) does an excellet job of manipulating and printing the 3D PDFs. wb Quote Link to comment
Mitch Brooks Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 mk, thanks for the advice on Adobe. I was able to open and manipulate the 3D view in Adobe Reader 7.0 on a Mac. Was that your question? Or was it how do you do the 3D pdf in the first place? If so, that has me stumped to right now. Mitch Quote Link to comment
michaelk Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 (edited) Looks like this will create a 3D pdf from a dwg.... anybody tried it? http://www.simlab-soft.com/3d-products/simlab-composer-buy.aspx Edited March 28, 2011 by michaelk Quote Link to comment
Tom G. Posted March 28, 2011 Share Posted March 28, 2011 Reader 9.4.2 on a Mac reads win B's model quite well. Check out Transparent Bounding Box Outline as an interesting rendering choice. Tom Quote Link to comment
Horst M. Posted April 3, 2011 Share Posted April 3, 2011 (edited) Thanks michelk for the Link! I tried Simlab. There are 3 Versions. The pdf edition doesn't work with dwg, but I found 3ds exports from VW2011 work with the trial. SimLab is not spetacular, but it seems to do the Job. The trial doesn't allow the creation of the pdf File, so I couldn't inspect the pdf File that would be created from Simlab. I couldn't get the RW Materials to appper directly in simlab pdf edition I had to retexture the Model in Simlab. It's a bit hard to find through the hundreds Groups that come with the 3ds export from VW. Therefore I think it makes sense to go for the Simlab Rendering Edition, because it allows dwg import which should keep the Classes structure of the VW Model for the 3Dpdf. Anyone else tried SImLab? Horst M. Edited April 3, 2011 by Horst M. Quote Link to comment
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