Insert Additional Controls

You can add additional controls to the PDF 3D View using the options available under the PDF 3D View tab.

 

To Insert Additional Controls:

  1. Click on the PDF 3D View Settings tab.

  1. Go to the Insert Additional Controls section which is the last section under this tab.

Warning: Flash is now deprecated and we advise to use PDF Widgets due to security issues and Adobe end-of-life policy with Flash.

  1. Select the Insert Controls For Mouse 3D Probe checkbox to enable mouse 3D probe. This enables 2 options: Use Compact Mouse 3D Probe and Default Mode which specify the default Mouse3D probe mode to be used.
  2. Select the Insert Controls For Z-Scaling checkbox to insert Z-Scale controls which are predefined controls, which allow scaling of the entire scene along Z-axis. Then select the default Z-Scale factor using the arrow buttons to scroll through the values until you find a desired value.
  3. Select the Insert Metadata Controls checkbox to enable metadata controls by default when the PDF page is open. Otherwise, the metadata controls are disabled. Note model must contain metadata. There is also a possibility to add it manually, see How To Adjust Advanced Parameters.
  4. Select the Insert Layer Separation Controls to specify that an interactive layer control menu should be inserted into the PDF page.
  5. If Insert Layer controls is enabled, the Default Separation Factor can be set as a percent of the model bounding box size.
  6. The Embed Runtime Libraries option specifies (for flash controls) if the runtime libraries will be included in the PDF file.
  7. Select other conversion settings as required. Once you are ready to convert your file, you can click on the Convert button available at the bottom of the screen under each tab to convert the file, or save the session for conversion later.
  8. If you would like to close PDF3D ReportGen without saving the settings that you have defined, just click on the Exit button available at the bottom of the screen under each tab.
  9. The Animation Control parameters group adjust how the animation control bar buttons are organized, normally just below the 3D view.

Each button has a visibility toggle, so it could be a long row of option buttons, or just a minimal Play+Stop two button set, according to needs. The animation can be set to start playing automatically when the PDF page is activated, with direction and repeat modifiers. The Delay multiplier sets the animation speed.