AcrhiCAD 10 - Acrobat 7 Pro - U3D

[Steve Jepson]

Does anyone know if ArchiCAD 10 going to have the ability to generate files we can use with the Acrobat like AutoCAD and Microstation already have?


http://www.bentley.com/en-US/Products/MicroStation/Interactive+3D+PDF.htm

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/pdfs/aec_sb.pdf

http://studio.adobe.com/us/tips/tip.jsp?p=1&id=101244&xml=acr7sd3dcontent

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/vector/a7_aec_swf.html

[Karl Ottenstein]

David wrote:
WOW! Welcome to Hogwarts!

Thanks! Wonder where the sorting hat will put me?!

Apologies also for the sideline from Steve's U3D topic...

One question: your VR scene shows a full spherical view, you can look directly up in the air as well as directly down at your feet. QTVR in ArchiCAD seems to limit the vertical viewing angle. Am I missing a crucial trick in ArchiCAD or was the VR generated someplace else? Not in Piranesi, surely?

Actually, I believe that Informatix did generate the VR in the Piranesi package. Part of Piranesi is the Vedute program which accepts models in a variety of 3D formats and creates standard Epix or panorama Epix files as output, after positioning camera, etc. The pre-generated Epix is in the tutorials folder, so I didn't have to generate it in this case. But, you can export an ArchiCAD (or SketchUp, etc) model, bring it into Vedute, and then export the panorama Epix for painting in Piranesi ... and then export to QT. Non-photorealistic, including sketchy, panoramas are a pretty cool, but apparently little-used, feature of Piranesi...

Glad this helped David 😉 And, apologies again to Steve... we should probably continue this in another thread and let this one go back to U3D...

In fact... I just started (by copying) a thread on this topic of embedding other media (QT) in PDF files:
http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=8161

If anyone wants to talk about Piranesi more, that should perhaps add on to this thread:
http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=112


Cheers,
Karl

[Thomas Holm]

Karl, I was trying to look at your pdf-embedded Quicktime movie, when I found out that there is a bug in Adobe Reader 7/Mac (Adobe calls it an "incompatibility" ) that makes it impossible to watch those if you're on MacOSX 10.4.x.

So if your client uses a Mac, we'll have to avoid this feature until this is fixed.

Just my luck!

/Thomas