I managed to create and import a .u3d file using the as I just learned now obsolete movie15 package using the dokumentation (http://mirror.unl.edu/ctan/macros/latex/contrib/movie15/doc/movie15.pdf) and this helpful page (http://rainnic.altervista.org/en/content/embed-3ds-pdf-latex-u3d?language_content_entity=en).
He managed to get a .png shown in the pdf for pdf viewers, which can not display the 3d content. I want to use this approach for the printed version of my thesis and in addition I want to display it as it would be a figure with the same look as the others with a caption. I already searched for a solution and tried several things, but didn´t came up with a satisfying solution. Could you provide one? :-)
Edit: To answer the comment: I don't know where to put that commands, I was looking for a way to produce something like the following pseudo-code (obviously it is not working like this)
text={\begin{figure}
\includegraphics[scale=1.0]{dissabbiatore.png}\caption{Caption of the figure}\label{fig:3d}
\end{figure}},
Here is the MWE (How to insert it easily without hitting the spacebar on every line?):
\documentclass[a4paper]{scrartcl}
\usepackage{rotating}
\usepackage{natbib}
\usepackage[3D]{movie15}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage[UKenglish]{babel}
\begin{document}
Here is the original version from the \href{http://rainnic.altervista.org/en/content/embed-3ds-pdf-latex-u3d?language_content_entity=en}{tutorial}.
\includemovie[poster,
toolbar,
label=pt,
text={\includegraphics[scale=1.0]{dissabbiatore.png}},
3Droo=6.896200246789337,
3Daac=60.000001669652114,
3Dcoo=0.6134188175201416 0.6502023935317993 -0.8552163243293762,
3Dc2c=-0.8354106545448303 0.3235208988189697 -0.44432342052459717,
3Droll=-75.5946486014902,
3Dlights=Hard,
3Drender=SolidOutline]
{\linewidth}{\linewidth}{dissabbiatore_meshlab.u3d}\\
A 3D, schematic model of a horizontal grit chamber. If the Figure does not appear interactive, please enable this function and click on it or use a recent version of \href{http://get.adobe.com/reader}{Adobe Reader}.
I already tried the package caption and the command captionof{figure}{Caption of the figure} resulting in an error and was not able to use the figure environment cause its a floating environment. My figures looks like this:
\begin{figure}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{dissabbiatore.png}
\caption{Caption of the figure}
\label{fig:label}
\end{figure}
\end{document}
\fboxcontaining a zero-width\vrulefollowed by an\hspaceof the desired width. (start with\noindentto make sure they're on the same logical line.) – barbara beeton Apr 14 '17 at 16:34{}above the input field. – Torbjørn T. Aug 28 '17 at 06:23