Can I insert a 3D-PDF into an existing 2D-PDF?

Question

I don't mean to add a page to the existing PDF (2D) but inserting it somewhere "on top" of the PDF page.
I have a PDF file with the three orthogonal dimensioned views of a solid model. Now I want to insert on the corner of the 2D drawing the 3D-PDF file.
Thanks.

Answer 1

Hello Erich,<br /><br />Here are some tips that I have found.  Unfortunately, big assemblies will just not work yet. You are better off having multiple 3D views displaying smaller subassemblies instead of trying to view the top level assembly.<br /><br />- Greg<br /><br />- For your final PDF file, do a "Save As".  I took your file and did a save as, the file size went from 2.69M down to 1.39M.  This often occurs when you have been editting the PDF file and happens in many applications, not just Acrobat.<br />- Don't worry as much about the u3d size as the PDF size.  Acrobat will compress the u3d file when on insertion.  I saved off the assembly from 3D Toolkit as a u3d file and it came out as being 5.35M.  After inserting the u3d file into a blank PDF file and doing a save, the PDF file with u3d inserted was just 1.94M.<br />- Depending upon the CAD app, you can reduce the size of the file by turning down the surface rendering smoothness in the CAD app before converting it to a u3d file.  Since Acrobat often uses the existing display lists in the CAD file or (my guess) uses the CAD render smoothness factor on convertion, any reduction in the CAD app will help later on.<br />- Also in the CAD app, try simplifying the models.  In many cases, you do not need cosmetic features such as threads on screws or supressing fillets will dramatically reduce the file size. <br />- For faster view dynamics, you can force the render mode to just show bounding boxes.  I have some code below which you add to you default javascript file.  You may want to add a custom menu item to turn the mode on and off.  The only problem is that lag while looping through all the meshes.<br /><br />myMouseHandler = new MouseEventHandler();<br />myMouseHandler.onMouseDown = true; //this prop is true by default<br />myMouseHandler.onMouseUp = true; //this prop is true by default<br />myMouseHandler.onMouseMove = true;<br />myMouseHandler.old_mode = scene.renderMode;<br />myMouseHandler.onEvent = function(event)<br />{<br />     if ( event.isMouseDown ) {<br />          this.old_mode = scene.renderMode;<br />          for ( i=0; i<scene.meshes.count; i++ )<br />          {<br />               scene.meshes.getByIndex(i).renderMode = "bounding box";<br />          }<br />          <br />     }<br />     else {<br />          if ( event.isMouseUp ) {<br />               scene.renderMode = this.old_mode;<br />               for ( i=0; i<scene.meshes.count; i++ )<br />               {<br />                    scene.meshes.getByIndex(i).renderMode = this.old_mode;<br />               }     <br />          }<br />     }<br />}<br /><br />//Register the handler and turn the mule on<br />runtime.addEventHandler(myMouseHandler);