The ParaView PDF3D Plugin enables ParaView users to export scenes, specifically with 3D content to 3D PDF files using the PDF3DŽ technical report generation system. The Plugin also supports exporting spreadsheets and 2D charts. It allows you to automate the creation of 3D technical reports through Python scripts for batch production.
The ParaView PDF3D Plugin enables ParaView users to export scenes, specifically with 3D content to 3D PDF files using the PDF3DŽ technical report generation system. The Plugin also supports exporting spreadsheets and 2D charts. It allows you to automate the creation of 3D technical reports through Python scripts for batch production.
You can create graphically rich technical reports using large number of scientific and technical data with various formats and structures including structured and unstructured grids, regular grids, adaptive mesh refinement cells, polygons, points, lines as supported by ParaView. You can enrich your documentation with time dependent data visualization and animation that strengthen understanding of underlying data and its semantics.
Create State-of-the-Art Technical Reports with ParaView PDF3D Plugin
The ParaView data-processing pipeline helps you to create complex interactive visualizations, allowing your users to adjust and setup specific investigations. Simple single-image screen-shots or AVI/MPEG movies do not capture the fidelity of visual results and do not allow for any viewer interaction.
The ParaView PDF3D Plugin is designed to capture full 3D visualization and animation into standard PDF documents. These documents can be viewed by anyone with the ubiquitous free Adobe Reader, enabling zoom, pan, rotate and close inspection of 3D result in detail. In effect you can create graphically enriched technical reports with full annotations and other supporting data. You can also add custom annotation, title, caption, keywords or company logo to the PDF page created. It allows you to add any number of logo, image, flash movie clips, and/or sound clips to make your own house-style. Text blocks may be defined to create technical engineering reports.
Communicate Your Technical Analysis
You can communicate your technical analysis, with tools suitable for Finite Element Analysis (FEA), Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Computation Electro-Magnetism (CEM), Geophysics, Engineering, Medical Imaging, Material Science, Numerical Simulation result post-processing.
The ParaView PDF3D Plugin helps you communicating your technical analysis with physical data defined in reference to space by mapping the space coordinates to screen coordinates as well as visualization of abstract data like, survey data, data from large networks like relations on the Internet, libraries and bibliographic databases, files, texts, codes and so forth.
Share Your Analysis and Other Information
You can share your results more effectively using the 3D PDF format. Create highly compact, compressed, interactive representations of your ParaView visualizations, sometimes smaller than movie clip files. You can also demonstrate transient results, vary playback speed, and step through key events.
You can illustrate your complete study in context with annotations and supporting data views. All main display window types are captured, including 3D, 2D, Charting, Spreadsheet, which may be appended to a report template. Users of your application are able to recognize the structures and relationships in the data by observing the immediate effects of the interaction on the visualization.
Save Precious Time
You can save report creation time by using the Plugin on latest ParaView platforms without extra installs. The Plugin is available as part of pre-compiled ParaView binary installations, loaded using Plugin Manager Menu. Alternatively, integrate into your own ParaView configurations using the PDF3D-SDK development version.
Automate your Job
ParaView PDF3D Plugin supports Python scripting within ParaView, enabling full batch processing and automation. Scripts can automatically create multi-page reports, add logos and inject 3D illustrations into template PDF documents.
Secure your Data
You can protect your technical report with various access rights and strong 256 bit encryption. PDF3D format can deliver a full 256 bit encrypted technical report with 3D view ports along with supporting technical data within the PDF document, allowing you secured data sharing with various stakeholders.
It's Simple to Learn and Use
With all its grandeur, the Plugin is extremely simple to use and learn. You get fully integrated Plugin controls inside ParaView client menu system. Alternatively, a separate end user tool PDF3DReportGen is available to convert saved VTK files outside of ParaView.
How ParaView PDF3D Plugin Addresses your Needs
ParaView PDF3D Plugin is a feature-rich toolkit. Its integrated controls allow you to create highly compressed and interactive representations of your ParaView visualizations. Some of the features are notable:
Capture 3D View snapshot to 3D PDF with a simple file-save icon.
Capture 2D, Spreadsheet table data to PDF.
Create multi-page PDF reports by appending or merging various visualizations.
Captures Animation Sequences of Transient Data or Moving Slices
Highly compressed 3D Geometry Representation, using PRC-HCT or U3D encoding
Animation Playback with Variable Speed VCR Toolbar
Full Colormap Texture Representation, Colorbar Legend Annotation
Automatic multiple view-point creation for PDF scene navigation
3D Axes Cube Reproduced with floating 3D labels
What's More
PDF/Engineering ISO 24517-1:2008 Compliance
Strong AES-256bit security control
PDF3D Plugin License only, no need for Acrobat or any other tool installation
Python enabled automated batch scripting
Fixed or Floating network license options
User guide and Developer Guide Documentation
Platforms
Windows Vista/Win7 64-bit, Linux RedHat 5.5 64-bit
(Please check for supported versions of ParaView, Qt & Python)
ParaView PDF3D Plugin at Work: Case Study - HR Wallingford
The leading hydraulics research and engineering consultancy group
HR Wallingford
extends 3D visualization capability, leveraging 3D PDF document generation for engineering reports. One of the world's leading research consultancies in civil engineering hydraulics and water management, HR Wallingford has adopted the ParaView PDF3D Plugin and associated PDF3D tools to extend 3D visualization and technical report collaboration capabilities across its 250+ employees. PDF3D reporting assists 3D hydrodynamic modeling applied to real-world applications in marine, coastal, estuary, flood risk and river flow modeling.
About PDF3D
PDF3D technical publishing technology software from Visual Technology Services Ltd. provides a rich suite of data conversion, compression, document management and interfaces for generating rich 3D PDF technical reports. The ParaView PDF3D Plugin is part of the PDF3D suite of products.
See
www.pdf3d.com
for more details. For information on ParaView, visit
www.paraview.org.
Details subject to change without notice. Copyright 2011 Visual Technology Services Ltd.
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