Communicate in 3D

Last call to enter the Acrobat 3D PDF Contest

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

Time is running out to enter the 3D PDF Contest.

In just a few minutes of your time, you could be entered to win a Dell laptop, iPhone, 3D mouse, iPod or Acrobat 3D Version 8. Simply take an existing CAD assembly, industrial design model, architectural model, 3D model, or CAD technical pub, that you own and use Acrobat 3D Version 8 to convert it to a 3D PDF - it’s that simple.

You can even use the free 30-Day Acrobat 3D trial version.
Deadline for submission is January 31, 2008.

Enter at http://www.acrobatusers.com/contests/a3d/

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Adobe Acrobat 3D site redesign

Monday, January 14th, 2008

The Acrobat 3D section of Adobe’s website has undergone a complete overhaul. In addition to rearranging the navigation tools and existing content to make it easier to find the information and resources from the old site, there’s a lot more new content available.

Jim Merry has compiled a list of links within the new site that anyone looking to research Acrobat 3D may find useful ..

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Extending CAD Beyond Engineering

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

Doug Halliday has a nice write up on how to better extend your 3D CAD assets outside of engineering and integrate the product development process across the extended enterprise using Acrobat 3D.

While there is definite overlap between Acrobat 3D and other CAD viewers (ie. the ability to distribute 3D geometry and 2D drawings with a no cost viewer), where Acrobat 3D is totally unique is the ability to combine all relevant project information from spreadsheets to proposals to 2D/3D geometry into one unified and archivable document. Doug’s write up goes through a simple how to scenario that makes this clear.

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