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Adobe's 3D PDF is a fast, flexible and powerful single-solution tool which offers the user total collaboration across multiple platforms, says Charles Clarke.

has reached another software milestone with its 3D PDF software. Traditionally, manufacturing vendors focus on proprietary data formats and provide technologies that ensure customer 'lock in' — as opposed to universally open formats.

The 3D PDF reader has been available for about 18 months and Acrobat 3D was released in January. There are now 1.25 billion Adobe readers on the market. This is serious pull through for a 3D publishing format — the current run rate for readers is two million a week. You can enable a document for review and markup from within the free reader.

To create a PDF there is a technique called Capture which allows the capture of the OpenGL 3D display list stream which is sent to the video editor from within the CAD system. By simply pressing the Print Screen key all the model information and the meta data is captured — and you get an accurate PDF in about three seconds.

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