Acrobat 3D versus Toolkit

Hi,
First, I should explain that I have no experience with Adobe Acrobat (except for the Reader, that is).
I create the instructions for the assembly and testing of my company's products. In addition, I create various instructional manuals for our customers. Currently, I use Microsoft Word to create these documents. Text, along with static images (such as tiff and wmf files) exported by the CAD group from SolidWorks and AutoCAD, along with photos (jpeg) are embedded in these documents.
Acobat 3D seems like it would be an ideal tool to bring our documentation to the next level(once SolidWorks 2007 files can be used).
I would greatly appreciate it if anyone could give me a quick overview as to how Acrobat 3D, its tookit, and Microsoft Word might work together to produce 3D enabled documentation. From what I see, it seems I would manipulate a 3D model in the tookit, save as a .u3D file, then insert into a Word document and export as a pdf. Is this accurate? How would animated files be saved/used?
I know I could eventually figure out some of this on my own, but I am trying to make the most of the 30-day trial.
Thank you very much.
-Dana D.

In case you did not see the earlier post:
http://www.ociw.edu/~ekoch/4star/PDF_MakePart/FS-02-002_NR2.pdf

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