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October 11, 2010
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Rotating ISO view in 2D Drawing

  • October 11, 2010
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Gurus



I was looking through the Hammond Manufacturing rack mount boxes and racks
and came across a PDF print that had a rotating (spinning) ISO view. I
thought this was interesting and I pose the question how is this achieved? I
know that you can insert files or pictures into a drawing but I am not sure
if it can be done with a MPEG, GIF or TIF files. I have attached the PDF..
This is something that I will probably never use but I was curious if anyone
out there had any ideas..





Steve Miller

Mechanical Design

Impulse Devices, Inc

(530)273-6500 Ext. 128

(530)273-6566 FAX

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dgschaefer21-Topaz II
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October 12, 2010
We don't have it here, but I've read about the 3D capabilities of
Acrobat. With Acrobat 3D you can spin, zoom and even section and
measure parts and assemblies. Did you hover on the image in that PDF? A
toolbar appears letting you control the 3D view, including sectioning &
displaying the model tree.

Acrobat 3D supposedly will open nearly every CAD native format
(including Pro/E). WF4 does have a 'save as 3D PDF' option. I'm not
sure how you create a PDF like that one with a combination of 3D & 2D.


Doug Schaefer
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dsenchuk1-Visitor
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October 12, 2010

Doug has it right. It's an acrobat capability.

It may also be a product view file inserted into the .pdf. There area few things that lead me to guess it could be a product view file.

- The toolbar lets you change the background color, but only of the bounding box for the isometric view.

- Like product view, the dynamic orientation of the model doesn't quite act the same as doing so to a pro/e file.

- When orientating the model, the corner runs into a clipping plane, revealing the interior of the component identically to using a sectioning plane in product view.

Of course, these could all be artifacts of converting the file to an acrobat format.

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dgschaefer21-Topaz II
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October 12, 2010
I think it's an Acrobat thing. Acrobat 3D doesn't spin like Pro/E, it's
rather clunky and hard to accurately position the model.

Doug Schaefer
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brianlynn1-Visitor
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October 12, 2010
It is definitely the "Acrobat thing" everyone is talking about, the
toolbar comes up when I float my cursor over the image, I can show the
Model Tree and show the sections in my version of Acrobat 3D.

Brian S. Lynn
Technical Coordinator, Product Engineering
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mapiskin11-Visitor
1-Visitor
October 12, 2010
Using Adobe Acrobat Pro, documents including this functionality can be produced.

In Pro/E (or whatever you use), the 3D model should be saved as .U3D file. Then this file must be pointed in the Acrobat Pro.



Mehmet Ali Piskin
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ptc-22183601-VisitorAuthor
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October 12, 2010
Gurus,



Once again I am impressed with the wealth of knowledge this forum has.. Here
is a brief summary of the responses I received on this inquiry. Turns out
this feature is driven by 3D PDF's, possibly product view, and not
necessarily a drawing function in ProE. I am going to try to find out the
step by step process on how to accomplish this and what is needed to get the
same end result..I will post a summary on that as well.





Thanks again for the responses.





As of Adobe 9.0 - they now have a 3D pdf standard that is much like a
ProductView file. The cool thing is that you can put a pdf inside a pdf
(like the 3D pdf in a 2D pdf). Google 3D pdf and you will find plenty of
data.

Rob Robinson

We don't have it here, but I've read about the 3D capabilities of Acrobat.
With Acrobat 3D you can spin, zoom and even section and measure parts and
assemblies. Did you hover on the image in that PDF? A toolbar appears
letting you control the 3D view, including sectioning & displaying the model
tree.

Acrobat 3D supposedly will open nearly every CAD native format (including
Pro/E). WF4 does have a 'save as 3D PDF' option. I'm not sure how you
create a PDF like that one with a combination of 3D & 2D.

Doug Schaefer





Doug has it right. It's an acrobat capability.

It may also be a product view file inserted into the .pdf. There are a few
things that lead me to guess it could be a product view file.

- The toolbar lets you change the background color, but only of the bounding
box for the isometric view.

- Like product view, the dynamic orientation of the model doesn't quite act
the same as doing so to a pro/e file.

- When orientating the model, the corner runs into a clipping plane,
revealing the interior of the component identically to using a sectioning
plane in product view.

Of course, these could all be artifacts of converting the file to an acrobat
format.

Don

The latest version of Acrobat Reader (AR9) supports the 3D files quite well.
Wildfire 5 has the ability to generate 3D pdf's along with .u3d files which
are used by Right Hemisphere and Acrobat (probably others as

well) as insertable objects.

Rich Serafin





Using Adobe Acrobat Pro, documents including this functionality can be
produced.

In Pro/E (or whatever you use), the 3D model should be saved as .U3D file.
Then this file must be pointed in the Acrobat Pro.

Mehmet Ali Piskin











Steve Miller

Mechanical Design

Impulse Devices, Inc

(530)273-6500 Ext. 128

(530)273-6566 FAX
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