Now available with faster sharing of design data... have you upgraded your viewer yet?? View DWF data with the free DWF Viewer, publish DWF with the DWF writer, round-trip markups, annotations, and other changes with Autodesk DWF Composer.
A number of new features have been included in this latest release. Updates include:
3D Model Cross Section
3D Move and Rotate
View Combined 2D/3D DWFs
email your DWF
Microsoft® Office Drag-and-Drop support... sweet!
Windows Explorer Integration.. preview, print, or email directly from your file explorer
Customer Error Reporting: Easily generate a report that summarizes errors and submits the information directly to Autodesk.
Not to be forgotten, the popular (and free) DWF writer has also been updated. A number of new features are included in this popular download... these include:
Easily publish 3D DWF™ files from leading manufacturing software, including:
Autodesk Inventor® (* DWF publishing is built in to Autodesk Inventor software and requires no download to publish)
SolidWorks® 2005
Pro/ENGINEER® 2.0
CATIA®
UGS® Solid Edge®
UGS® NX™
Easy Publishing from Microsoft Applications
Easily publish design-related documents directly to 2D DWF by selecting the Publish DWF button from the Microsoft application toolbar. Supported Microsoft applications include:
Still not up-to-speed on DWF? Here's some information direct from Autodesk that helps explain why you need to be using DWF if you have a need to share digital design data.
DWF files offer the following advantages for sharing design information:
Compact yet data-rich, DWF files include drawing scale, views, and hyperlinks
Highly compressed DWF files make it easy to transmit huge design models by email or the web. DWF files can be 1/20th the size of AutoCAD® DWG files and 1/25th the size of Autodesk Inventor® files
The format supports 3D, enabling a fully interactive presentation of the design model
The format supports multisheet drawings sets, so designers can build a compete set of complex design documents into a single DWF file
The open DWF format can be published and viewed by many different design applications
You don’t have to be a CAD user to review DWF files. The free* Autodesk® DWF™ Viewer, as well as Autodesk® DWF™
Composer, enable you to view and work with DWF files
Creating DWF files is free*; the capability is built into Autodesk® design applications or available with the free Autodesk® DWF™ Writer