Software aids 3D content sharing

Version 1.2.1 of Visual Technology Services' PDF3D SDK Toolkit empowers product communication, knowledge transfer and collaborative sharing of 3D technical content.

Visual Technology Services has released version 1.2.1 of the PDF3D SDK Toolkit, including bridges to 3D technical graphics and application platforms including VTK, AVS/Express, Coin3D and Open Inventor.

By enabling these bridges PDF3D empowers product communication, knowledge transfer and collaborative sharing of 3D technical content to downstream stakeholders across the enterprise leveraging Adobe Acrobat.

Significant challenges with globalisation and supply chain communication create the need to enhance and simplify the exchange of complex 2D and 3D content with supporting information.

Leveraging the Adobe Acrobat infrastructure PDF3D begins to contribute value to the simplification of the problem of pushing engineering information beyond management systems and firewalls to joint venture participants, sourcing partners, sales, other engineering participants, manufacturing, training, service and support.

Simplistically it is a problem of archiving, sharing, and delivering complex technical data easily both inside and outside the corporate firewall.

PDF3D support for interactive product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions and scientific analysis solutions allows users to easily share 3D snapshots of content, organise and integrate the different phases of a product's lifecycle using the common Adobe platform.

Support for tools such as the free Adobe Reader to view and manipulate 3D content allows companies to shift away from traditional models of PLM and move towards leveraging the proven value of embedded interactive 3D solutions directly within reports and project documents for more effective decision making and accelerated product development, launch and support.

PDF3D further expands the sharing of multiple data types with 3D content by announcing support for several third-party application development environments.

Communication of multiple data types such as spatial, 3D content and key supporting technical detail within the secure Adobe document management platform and free PDF viewer is now becoming a reality for our customers who view 3D multimedia content within today's collaborative business communication process.

An example of this is an organisation with 3D data stored in an Oracle database needing to deliver secure documents containing multimedia 3D content and supporting technical documentation to their clients.

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