For all those anonymous whingers complaining about my SpaceClaim coverage, chew on this: AECnews.com editor Randall Newton insists that Adobe must immediately acquire SpaceClaim. His rationale:
It makes perfect sense that someone who needs to receive models in a 3D PDF but who doesn’t already use CAD would turn to SpaceClaim to edit the geometry.
He expects the acquisition to be announced an industry event scheduled for mid-April.
Maybe something's happened since Adobe first came out with their 3D-capable PDF, but wasn't that thing effectively doing my applications like OGLE does: ripping the tesselated data out of the screen information? Sure seemed that way when I read into what they were actually doing.
Clarification on this or a pointer elsewhere would be appreciated. Thanks.
Posted by: csven | Mar 17, 2007 at 02:13 PM
Ralph
It is a sad day when a reporter crosses
the line.
What used to be credible cannot be trussed
even if it is true!
I note your enthusiastic reporting!
Regards
Gary D'Arcy.
Posted by: Gary D'arcy | Mar 19, 2007 at 07:53 AM
You're right CSVEN 3D pdf v7 contained tesselated (polygon) data only. Acrobat V8 due out shortly contains the 3D B-REP model also.
Posted by: Bob Bean | Mar 19, 2007 at 09:58 AM