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Saturday, May 17, 2008
Biomet uses Acrobat 3D for faster approval of custom artificial hip and shoulder implants
Biomet uses Acrobat 3D to enable doctors to speed up the approval process for custom artificial joint replacement of the hip, knee, shoulder, elbow.

Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Hoops v16 2D/3D development platform adds support for 3D PDF animations
HOOPS is a 2D/3D development platform for creating or enhancing professional-grade applications. The new v16 adds support for high-performance Direct 3D and export of 3D PDF documents which include sophisticated animations

Thursday, January 24, 2008
MFG.com manufacturing marketplace standardizes on Acrobat 3D for sharing 2D/3D info
MFG.com, the world's largest online manufacturing industry marketplace, made Adobe Acrobat 3D its standard tool for viewing CAD data, allowing buyers and sellers to freely exchange 2D and 3D geometry together with manufacturing information.

Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Sikorsky Aircraft to use 3D PDF to reduce CH-53K Helicopter development time
Sikorsky Aircraft Corp will be translate PMI directly from CATIA models into interactive, secure 3D PDF documents. These 3D PDF documents provide Sikorsky's shop floor personnel with manufacturing and design intent earlier in the development cycle as well as provide better, more intuitive and visually rich assembly documentation that helps reduce shop floor errors.

Thursday, December 6, 2007
Acrobat 3D 8 wins Cadalyst Labs All Star award
Acrobat 3D Version 8 was selected for the Cadalyst All-Star awards that honor the best of the best of all software and hardware products that earned Highly Recommended ratings from Cadalyst Labs in the past six months.

Friday, November 16, 2007
KeyCreator v7 CAD/CAM software adds 3D PDF export
KeyCreator includes tools for solids and surface modeling, drafting, and 2- and 3-axis NC milling as well as translators for most parametric CAD programs. The new v7 adds batch-translation capabilities for PDF and 3D PDF exports.

Tuesday, November 13, 2007
IronCAD v10 adds support for 3D PDF export
Among the list of improvements and new features in IronCAD Version 10 are major improvements to large assembly performance in 3D and 2D, a redesigned interface, updated capabilities for advanced rendering and 3D PDF export for collaboration.

Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Lattice Technology XVL Plug-In for Acrobat 3D
The XVL Plug-In operates with Acrobat 3D Version 8 to enable easy bi-directional conversion between Adobe PDF and Lattice's XVL ultra-compressed 3D data format.

Wednesday, November 7, 2007
SpaceClaim Professional 2007+ adds support for Acrobat 3D V8
With the new SpaceClaim Professional 2007+, the extended development team can open a 3D PDF file, modify the geometry and save it back as a 3D PDF file for improved 3D collaboration and communication using Acrobat.

Wednesday, October 31, 2007
"Better Process Podcast" features Acrobat 3D in manufacturing
The Better Process Podcast interviews Doug Halliday at manufacturing conference to discuss using Acrobat 3D as an interoperable standard and collaborative tool in the global market

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