PDF Vs DWF
PDF Vs DWF
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Does anyone have any comments on the alternatives above for storing/printing files?
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RE: PDF Vs DWF
I use only *.pdf, because everybody can opene these files.
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Lothar
ADT 2004
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ADT 2004
RE: PDF Vs DWF
1. You have to keep them anyway for editting.
2. Free utilities to view and print them are readily available.
3. PDF is widely supported but brings little to the table in the form of other features or benefits.
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Autodesk also has another free viewer called "design review" that allows you to view, print, measure, and mark-up DWG drawings.
I like PDF better than DWF becasue almost everyone already has software to view PDF files on their computers. Also, the newer Adobe 3D software allows you to animate drawings in 3D, which works great for making 3D presentations, watching assembly parts explode & then implode, etc.. If Autodesk had features like this for DWF, that would be great.
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Don Phillips
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RE: PDF Vs DWF
Both format will end up complimenting each other rather than competing each other.
Conversion to pdf is much simplier and faster - just scan all your plan and output direct to pdf files. To convert to dwf you need the dwg files at first place.
Dwf is great if you need to extract out information contained in the plan. Design Review come with handy tools like length and area tools. It can even allow you to set the drawing units to real measurement unit - something that even AutoCAD 2k8 shy off. (I would like to made correction to John2004 - Design Review can only view, print, measure, and mark-up DWF format not DWG.)
Trueview is great effort by Autodesk to enable non-cad community to view and plot the dwg files. Strictly view and plot only - because you can't measure anything in Trueview - unless you plot it and measure physically using scale ruler.
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Been using DWF now for about 1 week and its good. Can covert to pdf anytime thru DWF and files are smaller size. I have autocad express viewer V3.1. Dont like the newer version somewhat.
Cheers.
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I finally started sending them PDF versions as an eMail attachment to stop all the confusion.
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Is this all because your using DWF files??
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It seems Autodesk should combine design review and trueview into one product, and perhaps add a few more features to allow better communication between the CAD drafter and people who either don't have CAD or are not very proficient with CAD.
I feel for design communication, 3D is the way to go. The ability to look at everything in 3D from different views, & a 3D orbit function is nice. The ability to explode and implode assemblies and do an animation of the device in operation is really helpful. All of this along with regular assembly drawings and 2D prints should pretty much explain the design. Adding audio narration would be another nice feature.
Of course all of this would be overkill for many simple designs, but I have often wished I had all of this for some things. Better to have it & not need it than to need it and not have it.
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No, I was using Autocad LT 2002 and a DWG file. The fabricator had an old version of Autocad and users that could not figure out how to put a font file in the search path.
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Design Review (DR) don't really open DWG or DXF files. Instead Autodesk has embedded a DWG to DWF converter to the DR. So every time you "force" DR to open DWG the program will convert the DWG to DWF first before able to read the file. But this process is slow and you not able to control the converted DWF quality (resolution, color, paper size etc). DR is actually raster image program so it can support inherently raster graphic like DWF, jpeg or bmp.
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