The free Autodesk DWF Viewer 6 was released last week to the web. It includes many performance improvements as well as some new features such as:
* New support for 2D and 3D DWF files published out of next generation Autodesk applications
* Print Preview - Now users can easily select paper sizes and preview the sheet or view to be printed before sending a DWF to the printer.
For more information on the free Autodesk DWF Viewer http://www.autodesk.com/dwfviewer
The next release of Autodesk DWF Composer release 2 with the included DWG viewer was released today. There are many improvements and features. Some of the highlights are:
* New support for 2D and 3D DWF files published out of next generation Autodesk applications
* Now users can easily select paper sizes and preview the sheet or view to be printed before sending a DWF to the printer.
* Increased Support for Native Files
* The included Autodesk DWG Viewer adds support for DXF™ files; and an additional component, Autodesk Inventor® View, allows users to view and plot Autodesk Inventor files.
* DWF Composer’s mark up library has been expanded to include custom symbols, providing powerful new ways for customers to annotate and markup information in the office or out in the field. With this tool, customers can create their own catalogue of symbols from any source including any DWF file or raster images.
* A new snapshot tool allows users to capture any onscreen information and bring it into their DWF file, enabling any data to be brought into the DWF markup set regardless of the source.
* Improving the speed of reviews and the ability to identify the status of markups, customers now have the option to graphically assign colors to markups to indicate their status. For example, when a user changes status of a markup to Done in the Navigator, the markup graphic in the DWF will be highlighted in yellow.
*Autodesk DWF Composer provides built-in DWF format measurement tools, enabling you to easily derive length, multiline length, and area of 2D and 3D DWF files. In this release, precision display means you can determine the number of significant digits displayed as well as the precision of the measurement.
*View and navigate DWF map books published from Autodesk Map® 3D 2006. DWF map books can include index sheets and hyperlinks to quickly navigate the map.
*Similar to how CAD users can round-trip their DWF file to AutoCAD 2005– and AutoCAD 2006–based products, Autodesk Revit Building 8 and Autodesk Revit Structure users can load DWF markups for fast, accurate revisions with Autodesk DWF Composer.
More information on Autodesk DWF Composer and the DWG Viewer http://www.autodesk.com/dwfcomposer
For more on the DWF format see http://www.autodesk.com/dwf
