Arena 3DPlayerForward Visibility for Your Business™

W ith Arena® 3DPlayer™, you can now

enter into an exciting new dimension

in simulation with Arena. Whether you want

to “fly through” your plant floor, zoom into

your distribution center, or observe your

customer service operations, Arena

3DPlayer can help add stunning, life-like

3D imagery and navigation to make your

animations spring to life as never before.

Key FeaturesThe latest version of Arena 3DPlayer

includes many new features and

enhancements. Among them you’ll find:

Shape Editing/Shape Management

• Add/Edit 3D shapes in the layout or library

using the new hierarchical Shape Editor

• Save modified shapes to the library for

future use

• Cut, Copy, and Paste from one shape to another

• Support for mapping texture images to 3D shape surfaces

3D Animation Constructs/Functionality

• 3D Levels — Animate tanks, continuous flow (e.g., pipes),

or expression-based conveyors (e.g., Packaging template

conveyors) in 3D

• Specify a global or resource shape to rotate-by-expression

around the y-axis during an animation run

• Option to keep entity or transporter shapes vertical when

they move along sloping guide paths (such as a person

walking on a hill, a helicopter flying, or a carrier hanging from

a chain conveyor)

Enhanced 2D Dashboard Features

• User Interface Changes — including better organization and

functional performance to conform with Arena standards

• Enhancements for Viewing/Sharing Animation

• Movie-making — Record smooth-running distributable movies

of running animation in .avi format using the built-in AVI

Capture tool

• View > Attach Camera command to attach a viewpoint to an

entity or transporter while the animation is running

Miscellaneous Features

• Picture ID matching on import from Arena

• Ability to view basic properties of an entity, transporter,

resource, or global while the animation is running

(by double-clicking)

• Improved error checking and behavior in object dialogs and

transformation tab

Technical Data

BenefitsWIth just three easy steps, Arena 3DPlayer enables you to produce

compelling 3D animations of Arena simulation models.

Step 1 — Layout the animation.

Begin with an Arena animation, a CAD layout, a 3D picture of your

system, or start from scratch. Arena 3DPlayer contains all the

drawing tools you need to construct a realistic, to-scale 3D

representation of your system. Your layout can contain static

shapes representing anything that does not move (walls, furniture,

plants, signs, etc.), as well as guide paths, waiting areas, status

indicators, machines, and other components.

Step 2 — Customize the animation.

Assign built-in or custom 3D shapes to the resource states, global

levels, transporter states, and entity pictures in your Arena model.

Your shapes can be simple or life-like. The built-in shape library

gets you started, the VRML import capability provides more

options, and the powerful Shape Editor lets you be as creative as

you like. Other dynamic 3D animation objects include tank level,

flow fills, and distributed fills. You can also use the Dashboard

pane for animated display of information–text descriptions;

clocks; variables; or tables of values, pictures, plots, level fills,

and histograms.

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Step One

Step 3 — Show the animation!

Running the animation is as simple as

opening the Arena animation data and

clicking “Go.” Arena 3DPlayer’s intuitive

3D navigation interface helps you

pinpoint areas of interest. And you can

even mount the camera on an object for

“fly-through” animations.

When your animation is ready, you can

record smooth, precise videos of your 3D

system animation in the universal AVI

movie format to send your AVI movies to

anyone!

Step Three

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Step Two

Publication AREN3D-TD001A-EN-P — Jan. 2005 Copyright © 2005 Rockwell Automation, Inc. All rights reserved. Printed in USA.

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System RequirementsMinimum requirements/recommendations for running the

Arena 3DPlayer software include:

• Arena® 3DPlayer™ software, version 2.00.00.

• Microsoft® Windows 2000 (Service Pack 3 or later), Windows

Server™ 2003, or Windows XP (Service Pack 1 or later). You must

have Administrator privileges to install the software.

• Microsoft® Internet Explorer 5.01. (This does not need to be your

active browser, but some Internet Explorer components are

necessary for Arena to work.)

• Adobe® Acrobat Reader 6.01 or later to view documentation.

• Hard drive with up to 250MB free disk space (depending on

operating system and options installed, and systems that need to

be updated).

• 256MB RAM (recommended 512MB RAM or higher, depending

on operating system).

• Minimum Pentium® 4 processor 2.0GHz or higher.

• Video adapter with 32MB of memory (or better) recommended.

• Video adapter with 3D acceleration strongly recommended.

• Screen resolution of 1024 x 768 or higher recommended but

not required.

• Mouse or other pointing device with two buttons; recommend

three buttons. (Note: most wheel mice have a third button.)

• Access to a 3.5" diskette drive is necessary to use master disk

activation (not necessary with FactoryTalk® Activation™).

• Arena SE or PE version 8.01 or higher is recommended for

generating playback files for layouts but is not required to be

installed on the same machine unless using the import

functionality in Arena 3DPlayer.

Note: The faster the PC, the better the video card, and the more

RAM available, the better the system will run. The animation of

large layouts developed in Arena 3DPlayer can be very video and

CPU intensive so a faster processor, better video card, more RAM,

and more video memory will provide smoother, more dramatic

visual representations of your system.

Catalog Number9502-AR3DPENE Arena 3DPlayer