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Acrobat 3d conversion settings – Adobe Acrobat 9 PRO Extended User Manual

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USING ACROBAT 9 PRO EXTENDED

3D models and geospatial PDFs

Last updated 9/30/2011

For more information on supported 2D and 3D file formats, see these references:

www.adobe.com/go/kb403526

acrobat3d.blogspot.com/

U3D is an open standard format adopted by ECMA International used primarily for visualization and publishing
purposes. U3D settings are available for most CAD files created in digital content creation applications. These settings
are also available for most CAD files created in mechanical engineering applications.

Benefits of PRC format

Allows storage of large CAD files to PDFs that are a fraction of the original size.

Supports post-conversion compression for faster loading.

Can represent Product Manufacturing Information (PMI), also referred to as Geometric Dimensioning and
Tolerancing (GD&T) or Functional Tolerancing and Annotation (FT&A).

Can retain geometry for reuse in CAD, CAM, and CAE applications.

Benefits of U3D format

Supports animations.

Editable in Adobe 3D Reviewer.

Acrobat 3D conversion settings

In the Conversion dialog box, you can specify settings for converting 3D models for PDFs on various tabs. Or, choose
a preset from the menu.

Note: The Acrobat Conversion dialog box does not appear if the Don’t Display Dialog During Conversion option at the
bottom of this dialog box is selected.

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