Leica’s Cyclone 3DR Software Solves Laser Scanning Meshes to 3D PDF Reporting

Geospatial & Civil Engineering vendor provides integrated 3D PDF publishing
The Civil Engineering, Construction, Geospatial Scanning solution vendor Leica Geosystems (part of Hexagon), produce software to process and manage large-scale survey and civil engineering projects around the world including Cyclone 3DR—an all-in-one deliverable solution for reality capture users. Infrastructure design, as-built reality captures and planned engineering works require rigorous documentation. Within […]

Interactive 3D Visualization During Live PowerPoint Presentations Made Possible

PDF3D’s free plugin enables presenters to integrate interactive 3D PDF viewing into live PowerPoint slide presentations to visualize and explain key 3D ideas

Typical PowerPoint presentations contain slide transitions and gradual reveals, and can embed other material such as video clips – but the one thing all these features have in common is that they need to be set up and […]

File Formats

The following file formats are available for PDF3D ReportGen, XML Server utilities and the Interface Layer of PDFD-SDK PRO Development Toolkit.  For PV+ see the other alternative File Format list.

Type

Format

Extensions

  Applications

Type
Format
Extensions
Applications

CAD Models

1

Additive Manufacturing Format
amf
3D Printing industry consortium format alternative to STL

2

AutoCAD Export DWF Format
dwf
AutoCAD Inventor, AutoCAD Mechanical, Visual Representations

3

AutoCAD Generic DXF Format
dxf
AutoCAD historic versions, Survey, Geophysics, Modelling

4

AutoCAD Native DWG […]

File Formats for PV+

The following file formats are PV+.  For PDF3D ReportGen, XML Server and the Interface Layer of PDFD-SDK see the other File Format list.

ADAPT files (.nc, .cdf, .elev, .ncd) meteorological modeling data from NARAC/LLNL
AMR Enzo files (.boundary, .hierarchy) cosmology particle simulation and hierarchical box data
AMR Flash files (.flash) Astrophysical thermonuclear particle simulation data
ANALYZE files (.img, .hdr) 3D biomedical […]