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Design Review

3D Mechanical Part Example
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3D House Example
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What’s the smartest, fastest, most secure way to share your drawings? DWF™ from Autodesk. DWF is the only format created specifically for data-rich design files. So it compresses them more efficiently, presents them more accurately, and lets you manage multiple drawings effortlessly. Since DWF is secure and non-editable, it protects your intellectual property.

Autodesk DWF Viewer is a free, lightweight, high-performance application for viewing and printing DWF™ (Design Web Format™) files. Autodesk DWF Viewer enables users to view DWF files that preserve the intent of the designer, without requiring the original design application. Autodesk DWF Viewer has a very flexible printing system that enables users to print to scale, fit to page, tile, or selectively print a variety of sheets from a DWF drawing set.

Autodesk DWF Viewer is available as both a standalone application or as an ActiveX control that is embedded within Microsoft Internet Explorer, providing a simple, easy to use interface for even the novice user to master viewing and printing of design data. Autodesk DWF Viewer ActiveX control also allows users to embed DWF files in other Windows Office applications like Word, Excel, or PowerPoint.

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Whether it’s building, manufacturing, or infrastructure, you need to distribute design data so that team members and professionals can review, mark up, and revise it. Paper works. But with team members in remote locations, coordinating traditional pencil markups on paper sheet sets is difficult, costly, and inefficient. Switch to digital with Autodesk® DWF™ Composer and keep your design information moving quickly and easily to anyone who needs it.

Autodesk® DWF™ Composer helps you streamline the review cycle, allowing project team members to work with a review set just as they do with paper sheet sets—only better. Built specifically for design professionals unfamiliar with CAD applications, DWF Composer provides easy-to-use tools to review, markup, and revise sheet sets and communicate those changes with the project team. Throughout the digital design review process, DWF Composer enables users to:

1. Intuitively navigate sheet sets
2. View and print DWF and DWG files with the highest fidelity
3. Use built-in measure tools for lengths, polylines, and areas
4. Annotate drawings—adding text, shapes, and stamps
5. Perform comprehensive markup, redlining, and annotations
6. Add, delete, and republish sheet sets for complete organization and review
7. Track comments and status of changes
8. Reduce errors and cycle time by integrating changes back into the AutoCAD® 2005 family of products Iterate on the review process electronically, retransmitting DWF files to the project team