Viewing Dimensions in Acrobat 3D

I am assuming that it will be possible to view and rotate lightweight 3D solid models within Acrobat 3D, but will you also be able to view the dimension structure as well?

It sounds like you may be referring to PMI data (FT&A or GD&T, tolerancing, dimensioning, markups) that comes from CAD system. PMI data is not automatically accessible in documents generated by Acrobat 3D. Right Hemisphere, one of our development partners, has announced a plug-in that will work with Acrobat 3D which extracts the PMI data from CATIA and JT-Open files and publishes this PMI data in resulting PDF documents. This may be related to what you are looking for.
I may, of course, have missed your point entirely. Sorry if I have.
You can perform analytical measurements in Adobe Reader 7.0.7, if the content was published from Acrobat 3D.
Another approach using Acrobat 3D is to use the OpenGL Capture facility that it provides to capture a 3D model from your CAD application while PMI data is being displayed in that CAD application. In this case, you can often capture the PMI data as related graphics annotations and these will appear in the dynamic 3D content saved into the PDF.
Michael Kaplan
Director of Engineering, Acrobat 3D/Manufacturing

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