3D PDF on Mobile

[jmenier]

I just upgraded to Product Design Suite Ultimate 2017 and trying out the 3D PDF tool inventor now has. I tried to send some of these 3D PDF documents to my android device (Samsung Galaxy S7) and had no luck getting it to open. Is there a specific app or viewer we need to use to allow mobile viewing of the 3D PDF? I would like the option to beable to send our models to our field people who carry Apple Ipads and some who carry Android tablets.

When I open the 3D PDF on my phone in Adobe Acrobat Reader for android it loads the autodesk 3D PDF template but not the actual model, see attached screenshot of what this looks like.

Thanks.

[mdavis22569]

do a google search on a viewer app ...

 You'll need adobe or a 3rd party viewer I'm betting 

here is a quick windows phone search

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=3d%20pdf%20viewer%20win...

[mcgyvr · Accepted solution]

Sadly even regular desktop browsers like Chrome\Firefox\Opera do NOT display 3d pdf files (when using their internal pdf viewer).. So you need to disable that and force it to open in Adobe Reader DC... I wish all browsers would start to support 3d PDFs in their internal pdf viewers.. No idea if Edge/IE can open them (I hate those browsers).

Even Adobe Reader DC is annoying in that you need to "trust" the file to even allow viewing of the 3d content.. I've got one 3d pdf now that when opened in reader DC keeps asking me to trust it over and over and over again and will never display it.. 

As to android there is this app that looks like it would work nicely.. Haven't tried it yet..

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.techsoft3d.hps.pdf.reader&hl=en

I'm gonna get the apk file and install it here on our assemblers tablets (internet is blocked for them to keep them from playing games,etc.. during work) once Autodesk gets the bugs out to hopefully provide 3d pdfs to our assemblers..

I got excited about 5 years ago when 3d PDFs started becoming popular.. The found out all the "issues" that came along with using them.. Now I'm excited again but will probably just ditch them again due to "issues" that still haven't been fixed and bugs in Inventor (hopefully they get those taken care of.. but I'm not holding my breath just yet)

[Anonymous]

Here are a couple example documents using Share3D, an HTML5-based solution, instead. Share3D is ubiquitous across devices and browsers, doesn't require a plug-in and supports multiple-page document with interactive 3D content. Better technology for documents with 3D.

https://www.share3d.com/pages/aTzxtw

https://www.share3d.com/pages/0OWgMw

[mcgyvr]

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@Anonymous wrote:

Here are a couple example documents using Share3D, an HTML5-based solution, instead. Share3D is ubiquitous across devices and browsers, doesn't require a plug-in and supports multiple-page document with interactive 3D content. Better technology for documents with 3D.

https://www.share3d.com/pages/aTzxtw

https://www.share3d.com/pages/0OWgMw

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That is a pretty expensive solution IMO if you need to do that quite often... 

$25/month isn't too bad I guess but $99/month for that is very expensive IMO..