On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Toni Alatalo <ant...@kyperjokki.fi> wrote: > On Oct 7, 2011, at 11:18 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: >> Are there any plans for Universal 3D (U3D) support? >> I was trying to find a way to create a 3D PDF with open source >> software but Blender doesn't appear to support it. It's an open >> standard so I figure the lack of support is for a more technical > > Often with open source the reason for something not existing is simply that > no one has implemented it. That is usually because there hasn't been great > need. [SNIP] > Some people have apparently brought things to U3D from Blender via OBJ export > to MeshLab (open source) and, with good success, proprieatery DAZ: > http://artandlogic.blogspot.com/2008/08/blender-to-acrobat-3d.html .. back in > 2008.
I'll have to try that. > I guess Collada and perhaps X3D are more useful to people so U3D just hasn't > been made. Probably is doable if really needed. > > This comment from already 2009 says that an extended version of Acrobat has > later added Collada support: "Using the COLLADA exporter and Adobe Acrobat > Pro Extended, one can create pdf documents that include the 3D model, > enabling users to rotate the model directly in the pdf viewer, as well as > exploring the object tree and see all the parts names." > http://labs.solidworks.com/Products/Product.aspx?name=colladaexport . Also > Photoshop and Mac OS X Preview etc. support Collada, so perhaps that's where > the world is converging instead. Well, that's still using Acrobat Pro which is about $350. I was trying to stay FOSS. I did have some success using Meshlab. It exports a UD3 file with a simple latex script and then you can use pdflatex to create the PDF. It works but the default orientation of the model is strange and I get a divide by 0 error if I try to change it. I exported a COLLADA version but it does not export a latex file for embedding in a PDF. Thanks, Richard _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
