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amrybarczyk03

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I need to create a 3D PDF from Revit.  I am using Acrobat Pro Extended to create 3D PDFs by capturing the 3D view.  However, this is not working at all. All the Adobe tutorials say to turn on the OpenGL accelerator, but the only accelerator I have an option to turn on is Direct3D.  I don't know if it is the problem, but when i turn on the accelerator, Acrobat doesn't even allow me to use the settings to capture the model.  When I have the accelerator off, I get as far as setting up the caputure, but Revit won't allow me to "print screen" capture.  Nothing happens in Acrobat when I print screen in Revit.  (it's supposed to put a view in Acrobat of the 3D model.)  I've done multiple Acrobat tutorials to try and get this to work, and it doesn't.  What am I doing wrong, or is the OpenGL driver the issue?

Thank you in advance to anyone that can help!

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Thank you, I am aware of this.  However, my client is requesting a 3D PDF.   PDFs are more universal and clients do not neet to download viewers, since almost every business has Acrobat and can view them on any computer.

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Easy way -

http://whatrevitwants.blogspot.com/2011/09/create-3d-pdf-files-from-autodesk-revit.html

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