The good folks over at Adobe are always thinking up new ways to make our lives as designers easier. They have just released a software product called Adobe Acrobat 3D, that converts 3D designs created in major CAD apps (Adobe provides a list of 29 supported CAD applications) to Adobe PDF. Probably the biggest benefit of this functionality is the ability to share CAD designs with those who do not have the expensive CAD applications without the need of specialty viewers. Users can capture their 3D designs from apps like 3D Studio Max, Maya, and Inventor in one easy step to create new PDF files.

Pretty sweet!