I just started working with Acrobat 9 Pro Extended. I planned to use it mainly for creating vector illustrations. I read that it would do the job quite decently.
I've IGES and other files which I'm trying open in 3D Reviewer, but it's telling me that it's an unknown format or it's throwing an exception error.
What worked so far was to use another program to capture a PDF. But now when I try to edit the PDF file in 3D Reviewer it opens it, but the performance when trying to rotate the model is not acceptable at all. Trying to to safe a DFX file is finally causing it to break down.
The IGES files I'm using have got a size of about 60-120 MB. Also STEP files are not working.
I'm trying hard since over a week now, upgraded my notebook (Thinkpad W500, Windows 7 64-bit) with 8 GB RAM and a SSD drive, reinstalled the applications ...
I can't seem to find a solution. It's driving me mad!
Any suggestions? I would really appreciate your help.
Also, their memory management is not the best, so scenes of any complexity do tend to have problems in the viewports. A 60MB original won't be 60MB when translated, but I assume it's still a hugely detailed mesh that the viewport Direct3D driver is trying to shade, and that's all being done by your graphics card. Adding more system RAM won't help if the GPU is struggling.
It's important to note that the 3D viewports in Acrobat render in pixels, not vectors, and so the quality of the images seen or printed are intentionally very low (the Acrobat 3D concept was all about the interactivity, not photorealism). To create a true vector line art or toon render (AI format, etc) of a 3D model, you will need to use a different application such as Deep Exploration.
Without seeing the problematic files I'm afraid there's not a lot we can do to help.