CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
19 May 2005
Product News
Immersive Design Releases IPA v8.1 With Interactive 3D PDF And U3D Generation
Immersive Design announces the immediate availability of IPA v8.1 with interactive 3D PDF and U3D generation. For companies distributing their product documentation in Adobe® PDF format, IPA gives users the ability to generate interactive 3D documentation and enhance their existing documents for procedure, training and promotional purposes. IPA v8.1 in conjunction with Adobe® Acrobat® Professional 7.0 adds the ability to create interactive 3D PDF files that can be interacted with by anyone with free Adobe Reader® 7.0 software.
IPA v8.1 is the first software application to automate the process of generating interactive 3D documentation in PDF format. IPA automatically generates the 3D PDF document and associated actions so that the user only needs to determine the process steps. Going from an MCAD assembly to the interactive 3D PDF file takes just a few minutes. Through the creation of Microsoft® Word® documents which include all the necessary information for 3D PDF generation, IPA users also have the ability to enhance their existing documentation by embedding the IPA generated Word documents in their current publications and publishing an enhanced 3D PDF file.
"Immersive Design focuses on mainstream uses of a manufacturing company's 3D engineering data-in service manuals, assembly process documents, part selection catalogs. Outside of engineering, people demand a document with which they feel comfortable-and that basically means PDF," says Greg Smith, CEO of Immersive Design. "The combination of interactive 3D content generated by IPA v8.1 and the advanced review and commenting tools and document security controls found in Adobe Acrobat Professional 7.0 provide manufacturing companies with a powerful tool communicating their product information."
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