3D PDF example !! with scripting.
Ok as promised I managed to get the ok to show a 3d PDF online. Remember Kudos to Right Hemisphere and adobe for this cool feature. You will need Adobe Acrobat reader 7.07 to view this. Its a piston Rod assembly which shows off some of the cool scripting abilities. There are views assigned for different steps of a process. If you dont have the right version these will not work, but you still will be able to swivel the pretty piston 
I’m impressed. I was expecting to download extra plug-ins and do an install, but I didn’t have to. It just worked on it’s own. I didn’t know PDF could do that.
Lol Acrobat is the plugin
hahaha yeah its been done nicely. I dont really think it would be a vaiable option to do it by loading a plugin…no one would want that.
shoo.. I had to update to acrobat 7 to view it.. which took several minutes. .. and now I get an error “Cannot use Adobe Reader to view PDF in your web browser.”
ok, restarted Firefox and now I’m getting an “Adobe Reader has found component “Library/3D:” and its size is 1.53MB Do you want to proceed with the download of this component” .. another minute to download and install.. after the install I get a modal dialog that finishes with a “Quit” button..
I get back to viewing the piston and click the “Next Step” button and I get an error “Cannot Save Form Information”. I’ve installed the latest updates and restarted FF twice..
But.. I can move the piston around now! It looks some better than the VRML stuff I tinkered with a couple of years ago, and I bet much easier to create and script.
Hmmm Looking at firefox, looks like the reader has a few bugs runing as a plugin. Might pass this one on up the chain. If anyone else has any issues try Internet Explorer (shuder I cant believe I just said that).
I get 100% cpu when I rotate it.s
true either you looking at it on a 300mhz machine or there is something seriously wrong there lol.
Frickin awesome… Loved it… can’t wait for this to become mainstream!!!
-Mark