Hi Folks,
I wanted to help out here and I do not work for Autodesk nor claim to speak for them. Full disclosure that I work for Anark that is providing this background 3DPDF technology to Autodesk and @mdavis22569 and I had a few chats this week and we want to make sure that people are progressing.
I will use the generic word CAD as the same conversation could apply to Inventor or any of the major CAD formats.
Templates need to be updated periodically to remove bugs or add new capabilities.
There are a few ways that tracking and updates can occur. Which technique is easiest will depend on how much template customization has been performed and which workflow makes the most sense to you.
Generally speaking you can:
- Copy Javascript from a new template into an "old" template…and then modify the "new" Javascript as required;
- Modify a "new" template so that it looks and behaves like the "old" template.
In both cases, all the functionality required to make these changes is available in Adobe Acrobat. In some cases it is easier modify a new template…and in other cases it is easier to update an old template and until we see what people are trying to accomplish it is hard to say what is best.
A great example is that I was working with a expert in the MBD/MBE field earlier today and she had created a BOM template 2 YEARS ago which is getting up there but, she wanted to have the same layout. We took her template, copied the latest BOM template Javascript that we had and pasted into the old template and walla, all the BOM views worked just fine and she did not have to change any of her layout.
It is worth noting that customizing a PDF template typically happens early in a new project when new Model Based Definition practices and processes are being defined. After this period there is typically little need to update a template…unless new functionality is desired, or the modeling practice changes.
I would be happy to have a short session to show how this works in a generic sense meaning, the source of the CAD data is generic but, we could play with templates, see the resulting 3DPDF and more plus talk about some of the few key settings in Adobe Acrobat or the actual 3DPDF Template that influence viability, menus, etc. I would NOT be able to get all that deep into Inventor but, you guys are the experts there anyways.
Message me if you are interested and we can find a quick time to do a webinar. If you are already deep into trying something and have a question, we can also try and answer and post to the community
Thanks
Jim
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