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Subject:RE: Adobe Acrobat 3D From:"Johnson, Tom" <TJohnson -at- starcutter -dot- com> To:<eric -dot- dunn -at- ca -dot- transport -dot- bombardier -dot- com> Date:Wed, 26 Jul 2006 13:36:03 -0400
Yes, I must've missed something or fallen asleep. You give a distinctly different impression than what I got out of the webinar. Likely, if I attended the same face-to-face presentation, I'd have gotten a better feel for it. After the webinar, I had very few reasons for pursuing it any further. I'll look into again.
Eric wrote:
> I think you missed lots of the possibilities. ... You can create the views
> (sections, transparencies, selected parts), rotations, animations, and much
> more with Acrobat 3D. All things that are very limited or impossible
> through Voloview for dwgs and dwfs."
Eric, I also think you may be understating the usefulness of the DWF viewer. No, it won't move parts, but it does have transparency, cross sections and the ability to turn layers and components on and off. You can isolate any combination of parts and get right into the heart of any assembly.
Tom Johnson
Technical Writer
tjohnson -at- starcutter -dot- com
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From: eric -dot- dunn -at- ca -dot- transport -dot- bombardier -dot- com [mailto:eric -dot- dunn -at- ca -dot- transport -dot- bombardier -dot- com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 1:15 PM
To: Johnson, Tom
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Subject: RE: Adobe Acrobat 3D
I think you missed lots of the possibilities. While Voloview may let you rotate 3d objects, it doesn't let you change any aspects of the 3D model, its representation, or the position of parts.
You can create the views (sections, transparencies, selected parts), rotations, animations, and much more with Acrobat 3D. All things that are very limited or impossible through Voloview for dwgs and dwfs.
Hate to sound like a shrill panderer for Adobe, but simply download the example PDFs that incorporate Acrobat 3D and try to tell me there's no Techwriting tie-in or that any other tool available is as powerful.
Eric L. Dunn
Senior Technical Writer
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