I would rather e-Transmit or bind an AutoCAD file and mail it to him. Now lets go back to my project manager and his desktop A3 deskjet printer and what format to send to him. But Adobe Reader 8.0 and after seem to have come back with a bang, and as I said, the 3D capability now, which structural engineers friends of mine use.īut that is on the DWF side of the equation. On a side note, after Acrobat Reader 6.0 and 7.0, I got so disillusioned with it, I went to Foxit reader for most ordinary PDF documents. And the new AutoDesk Design Review product is trying to be as good as the new Acrobat Reader of course also.

When Adobe PDF went 3D a while back (I haven't much experience with 3D dwfs or PDFs, but my structural eng pals use it for long distance collaboration a lot), AutoDesk followed suit, and now the modern day equivalent of the old simple DWF viewer is something called AutoDesk Design Review.Ī mix and match of what used to be their upgrade from the DWF viewer, the DWF composer. However, what they have done to the 'DWF Viewer' of old is simply horrible. I always liked DWFs myself, and would have tried to encourage it as a format. Not DWG or DWF or anything, PDF is the one they want exclusively. When project managers ask me to send them 'drawings' they can print out to their desktop A3 printers - the format they ALWAYS ask for is PDF. I am really impressed in some ways with AutoDesk's attempts in this department.

Autodesk design viewer