Model Tree in RPS 3D PDF

Hello,

First, please excuse the forum photo - I don't have a picture of myself on my computer (it's a work machine) and I didn't seem to be able to join the forum without one.

I am working on a project to provide 3D data to Field Engineers embedded in PDFs - RPS 3D PDF (or, more precisely, the U3D output from the product) looks to be the perfect solution as the data is currently in SketchUp.

My problem is that I cannot find a way of having the separate components of the model listed and individually addressable in the Model Tree. All I get in my PDF file is "model" > "Default Face". The "place I am going" is illustrated in this link:

http://www.microtype.com/showcase/3DAsst/PartEmphasis-3d.pdf

As you can see in that link, the model shown there has individually addressable components.

I have named all the components in my model within Sketchup but maybe I am not naming them in the correct field?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Best regards

Philip

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Permalink Reply by Rich Hart on April 19, 2012 at 11:09am

Currently RPS 3D PDF only makes U3D files where the faces are grouped by SketchUp material, so the only it would work for you is to use a single unique material for all the faces in each component.

We have been working on adding a feature where we would group the faces by the top level layer, but that is not working for us yet. Once that is working, I imagine we could also group by the top most component name...but it is not something that is available now.

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Permalink Reply by Render Plus on April 19, 2012 at 11:20am

First, please excuse the forum photo - I don't have a picture of myself on my computer (it's a work machine) and I didn't seem to be able to join the forum without one.

It is just an "avatar". It doesn't need to be a photo of you.

But forums look much more friendly when each user has a different icon.

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Permalink Reply by Philip Randall on April 19, 2012 at 11:39am

Rich, Al, Many thanks for the very quick replies. I have tried this and I can see that different materials in SketchUp convert into separate objects within the Model Tree - exactly as I had hoped. Even though this is means manual labelling of the parts in SketchUp, I can see that this may not be too onerous - we only have approximately 200 parts to label, the rest of the model is "background" and context.

I will continue playing - hopefully I will be able to get this working. Thank you very much for your help. I will keep you posted on how it goes and post up the results (if I get that far!).

Best regards

Philip