If you are sharing DWG files, you can buy Volo
View. It costs about $99. Sharing DWGs is sometimes hard because in addition to
sharing the DWG, you have to remember to share all of the other files that the
DWG depends on like other DWGs that XREF'd, special font files, and image files.
It can get quite messy. A DWF file on the other hand is very self-contained,
smaller in size, and is a copy of the original - not the real intellectual
property. DWFs can be viewed by AEV which is free. For R13, a DWF file is
generated by the DWFOut command using the WHIP ADI video driver. For R14 DWFOut
was still the command but layer information could be included in the DWF file.
For AutoCAD 2000 and layer, DWF files are generated using the PLOT command where
a DWF printer driver is specified. In AutoCAD 2004, you can use the Publish
command. The AutoCAD 2004 DWFs allow more than one DWG file to be included in
the same DWF file. SO you can see that DWF has evolved over time and has a
future with the free Autodesk Express Viewer.
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I
take it the express viewer was made not to like Autocad? Since it can only
view dwf's, and not dwg's. I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to either
save a file in autocad as dwf, or if there is a way to have the viewer read
dwg's?
Thanks.