One thing thatÝs a bit annoying about the free DWF Viewer is that it has a built in advert bar, which, even though small and mainly advertising Design Review, starts to get on your nerves over time.ĭesign Review adds mark-up, measure and annotation, together with Ùout of the boxÝ support for DWG, DXF and Inventor as it comes with AutodeskÝs ÙDWG TrueViewÝ engine. The free-to-download DWF Viewer supports the viewing and printing of files saved in the DWF format. Design Reviewīefore delving into what is Design Review, itÝs probably best to position it against its free little brother Autodesk DWF Viewer, which is a subset of Design Review. The good news is that Autodesk appears to have developed a scalable range of pretty competitive DWF and DWG offerings, despite the potential confusion of the new branding. This is a stand alone product but also plays a role in its paid for Design Review product, Autodesk Design Review, which has evolved from Volo View with some substantial improvements. It seems in part response to these efforts that Autodesk is once again offering a free (around 100Mb) downloadable DWG viewing capability, called Autodesk DWG TrueView.
Indeed, AutodeskÝs competition, Bentley and SolidWorks to name but two, have ensured that they offer free DWG viewing applications to fill the gap that Autodesk left when it removed its free DWG viewer a few years ago. Viewing of DWGs is now pretty much free with or without AutodeskÝs efforts. However, AutodeskÝs competition have also kept Autodesk on its toes. Growing numbers of users are opting to send drawings and models by the Internet and there is generally more interest in formats that allow collaboration. ThereÝs also the issue of sending your intellectual property outside of your company in an easily editable and ÙcopyableÝ format. DWGs can get quite large and sending them over the Internet can be problematic. DWF is a very lightweight 2D and 3D format for communicating and securely collaborating with extended teams. There are a number of reasons for this confusion – the main one being AutodeskÝs re-emphasis on its DWF format (Design Web Format) for information exchange. DWG viewing outside of AutoCAD has been a moveable target and quite confusing for customers. Over the years there have been a number of branded products: View, Volo, Composer and now Design Review. More recently the only free application was a DWF viewer and users had to pay for an integrated DWG viewer and mark-up solution.
At times it has cost money to have an Autodesk application that just viewed DWG files, at other times it has been free. ItÝs safe to say that AutodeskÝs viewing, redline and mark-up strategy has gone through a number of iterations in recent years.
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