DWF
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Introduction This session focuses on technologies that can be used to view and access DWF content downstream from Autodesk's design products. Yesterday's session focused on DWG – we're going to take the model containing 3D solids that we created during that session and publish it to DWF, adding custom metadata. We can then look at […]
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We sometimes receive questions on how best to automate the printing of DWF files. Autodesk Design Review 2008 now has a new Batch Print Plug-in enabling just this. Once you've installed the plug-in, you'll be able to use the Batch Print Wizard in Design Review (on the file menu, once a DWF has been loaded). […]
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It's been quite a week... I was attending Autodesk's annual One Team Conference in Las Vegas, and had a number of meetings before, during and afterwards (hence my inability to make any posts whatsoever since Sunday). It was hectic, but a great event - the highlight for me was the keynote address on Wednesday by […]
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Many of you will have seen the recent announcement from Autodesk and Microsoft regarding DWFx. I thought I'd spend some time talking about the technology behind the announcement and the impact on developers using DWF. I also wanted to mention Project Freewheel briefly once again. DWFx Here are the recent DWFx-related announcements, from Scott Sheppard's […]
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I decided to go ahead and put a test page together for the DWFRender Web Service. It still wasn't feasible to make it part of the blog itself, given the issues with scripting, particularly, but I've included the files here for you to download and run locally: Download freewheel_web_service_test.zip There are three web methods called […]
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Project Freewheel is a project that was recently launched via Autodesk Labs. It's a technology preview that allows you to share DWF files without the need for installing a client application that includes an ActiveX control for DWF display (such as the DWF Viewer or Design Review). There are three main features of Project Freewheel […]
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I haven't written about the API capabilities of the DWF Viewer, as yet, but this is a technology I really enjoy working with. The latest release (version 7), especially, has some really cool API capabilities: while you've been able to respond to selection events in 2D views for some time, it's now also possible to […]
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I thought I'd mention one of the projects we're working on in DevTech right now. We're planning a webcast for later this year, to talk our developers through the various technologies Autodesk provides to create/access/view native DWG data and published DWF data. Here's the idea: we show the generation of native DWG data using AutoCAD […]