We tried this. I worked on this. It was called Volo View. Everyone hated it
because it didn't behave exactly like AutoCAD. Many of the idiosyncrasies of
AutoCAD are associated with DWG - not AutoCAD. Even look at DWG TrueView. I
have seen postings here complaining that it does not honor DIESEL strings.
There are so many people that use DWG in so many ways that as soon as you do
something to "simplify" things, someone notices that they can't do what they
want or the software does the wrong thing on their behalf. If you want a
viewer to be a true DWG viewer, you need one based on AutoCAD. AutoCAD is
very powerful; however, with power comes a certain amount of responsibility
to master a moderate amount of complexity.
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Sarcasm noted...
If only there was a dwg viewer that was simple to use WITHOUT a new file
format so that clients that request dwg close-out documents could have an
easy to use viewer and I could supply them with the REQUESTED file format...
if only...
I know about and appreciate DWF, but when a client requests DWG, that is
what they get. I just want to be sure they can actually view these files
(some clients are questionable) so I include a viewer installer on the CD
and .
Seriously Scott. Have you even looked at Solid Works eDrawings viewer? It
fits the bill pretty nicely, but because it is not a genuine autodesk dwg
product it has some issues. I am pretty sure Adesk could come up with
something just as simple and alot more compatible if they wanted.