Bentley to add 3D PDF support for i-Models

At Bentley’s annual “Be Inspired” conference in Amsterdam, Greg Bentley told the audience that the ability to package Point Cloud data in 3D PDFs will be coming soon thanks to Bentley’s newly acquired point cloud capabilities.

i-Models have been available within Bentley applications as an exchange tool (an i-Model is a container for data exchange and enables bidirectional feedback). But now CAD users will be create iModels and exchange them as 3D PDFs for use by anyone with Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader.  The i-model plug-ins for Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader will be downloadable from Bentley’s iWare website.  Hardware acceleration with pixel shader support for manipulating the 3D PDFs in real-time is supported on FirePro graphics cards via DirectX.