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by gauchet.vanantwerpen

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I'm in the petrochemical industry. We have outsourced our drawing office about 5 years ago resulting in a multitude of diverse drawing packages that we need to view from various vendors in the file based 2d environment. We have a viewer that can view 80% of our drawings in the native format. The two big players currently are Bentley and Intergraph. For the rest of drawing packages we rendition to Adobe Acrobat. This strategy is water tight for 2d. My question is how do we handle 3d based drawings? Currently our vendors use PDS and PDMS and this might change to include other vendors

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by parvus1202

I presume that you mean interactive 3d drawings. There a lot of 3d softwares and files depending on what 3d software where used, if Maya it will .mb if Max .3ds etc. So you need a 3d viewer that can view all types of 3d files. You might want to install Direct 3d and Open GL that supports 3d view plus software 3d viewer. Talk to your vendors on what sort of 3d software they use and try have the same.

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