Hi all-
I am currently using the 30-day tryout version of Acrobat 3D together
with Pro/Engineer WF 2.0 M050. According to Adobe (quick search on
Google), this product is "unsupported" with Acrobat 3D. However, I
have read on some forums that people were successful in using
Pro/Engineer WF 2.0 with Acrobat 3D.
When I attempt to do a "screen capture" of a Pro/Engineer part, I get
an error (program crash) message titled "r3du3dExe". However, back on
the Acrobat 3D application, a new dialog appears, as it attempts to
import the 3D geometry (as if no error had occured). When, I accept
the settings in this dialog, a PDF appears with a thin plane without
the object that was attempted to be captured.
Did anybody run into this problem and find a fix for it? Any special
settings I need to apply to either Pro/E or Acrobat 3D to get this
working?
Thanks in advance.
-Adam Joseph Cook, Mechanical Engineer
My guess is Wildfire2 may be supported on a newer build that came out after
Acrobat 3D.
Adobe was giving away copies of Acrobat 3D at the user group meeting.
What do you export to to get it to work with Acrobat 3D? Maybe VRML? STL? They
seem like things Adobe might package (as they did PostScript) into a mass,
consumer based product. It's got to be something like this as there is no
Adobe3D
export format for pro/e.
Hey guys,
I guess it doesn't matter anyways. If the 3D Capture thing doesn't
work I can always do a File->Open... (file type *.prt, *.asm). I just
thought that Capture 3D was the ONLY was to create a 3D PDF document.
Thanks anyways.
-Adam Joseph Cook, Mechanical Engineer
You have to use a .u3d file to import into Acrobat 3D. In order to get that
file you export(I believe) a iges out of Pro-E, then use a 3rd party program
called Deep Exploration from Right Hemisphere to create the u3d file. You
can get a 30 day free trial at Right Hemispheres web site.
Its probably easier to use free E-drawings for Pro-e from Solidworks, unless
it has to be a PDF.
I'm shooting from memory on this one so no flames if I got it wrong.
Mike
Hey Mike,
I found out yesterday that Acrobat 3D has some native file translators
built-in. I guess the 3D capture mode just doesn't work in
Pro/Engineer. I probably need to upgrade my build though. Office
politics....sigh.
Thanks.
-Adam Joseph Cook, Mechanical Engineer
Don't give up just yet -
The 3D capture does work (very well, in fact) for Wildfire 2.0 & 3.0.
I've seen that thin plane also. The key is to change your background to
white (View > Display Setting > System Display). After that, try it
again and it should work. I've found that it takes two tries to get it
to work for some reason.
Also try in Adobe Acrobat: Edit > Preferences > 3D > Preferred
Renderer > Software if your still having problems.
Adam Joseph Cook wrote:
Hey G,
I tried both your suggestions regarding the background color and
changing to the software as the perfered renderer, but it still is
giving me and error when I hit the print screen key. It acts like it
wants to work but still shows me that plane instead of the actual
object.
Thanks.
-Adam Joseph Cook, Mechanical Engineer
Hi
I exported the file in Inventor assembly (.iva)
Rename the dataextension to (.iam)
Read it whit Acrobat 3D, because Inventor is supported by 3D.
It works fine.
ciao
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