I was wondering if there were a way to save my display states when saving to 3D PDF. As far as I can tell there doesn't seem to be an option for this when saving and in the 3D PDF there also doesn't seem to be an option to switch display states. Which leads me to believe that the SW just saves whichever display state/configuration you have selected at the time of saving to the 3D PDF. Am I missing something? If this isn't a feature in SW, it would be nice to see this in a future version.
Thanks.
Bump. I was wondering this myself, and am inclined to agree with OP's observations.
I'm trying to produce subsystem 3D PDFs which highlight specific pipe/conduit runs in a 4000-component large assembly within a shipping container, and leave the other 90% of items transparent.
To achieve a 3D PDF of this complexity, it has to be exported to parasolid as an intermediary step between assembly and 3D PDF.
Once parasolid is imported: envelope transparency goes away, material transparency goes away and needs reassigned, and most frustratingly the 9 category and 4 level deep folder structure is destroyed and everything is in one flat list. It's the last one which wipes out my organization for reassigning appearances per categorical purpose to highlight specific subsystems.
Simply put, I'm not looking forward to reassigning appearances which were already organized and controlled within the assembly, multiple times for different intents. Display states should be more persistent through exports. I don't know if that is even possible, but parasolid is 'native' to SWx so it ought to carry more details through.