Lattice Technology Releases XVL Plug-in for Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro

By DE Editors

Lattice Technology (San Francisco, CA) announced its new XVL Plug-in version 1.2 for Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Extended software.

Acrobat 9 Pro Extended (which was announced in June 2008) supports CATIA V4 and V5, NX, I-DEAS, JT, SolidWorks, Pro/ENGINEER, Autodesk Inventor, and many others. Lattice’s new Plug-in developed using the Acrobat 9 3D SDK allows engineers to open any of the supported files formats directly in Lattice Technology’s XVL Studio and Lattice3D Reporter applications.

Assemblies can be edited, animated, annotated, and then shared with others using PDF. 3D Parts lists and BOMs created in Lattice3D Reporter and Microsoft Excel can be easily shared with others by using the Plug-in to deliver 3D data, parts lists, and interrelated assembly tree data in PDF. The 3D PDF files created can be shared, while the 3D animations, interactivity, and related assembly structure data can be viewed by virtually anyone, anywhere, using free Adobe Reader software.

To leverage and extend 3D PDF data, customers need Acrobat 9 Pro Extended, the XVL Plug-In installed, and either XVL Studio or Lattice3D Reporter depending on their needs.

Information about the XVL Plug In for Adobe Acrobat or demonstrations of the XVL Plug In for Adobe Acrobat can be found at Lattice Technology, Inc.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company's website.