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Sharing IDW's whats the best way

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Message 1 of 19
Anonymous
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Sharing IDW's whats the best way

I have a client who doesn't want to download any viewers or open and files he just wants the idw I made him embeddied in a word doc.

Is this possible?
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Message 2 of 19
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

What about a pdf?  He probably already has
acrobat reader on his computer.

 

Kathy Johnson
Message 3 of 19
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

I don't
Message 4 of 19
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

Okay.  What about charles viewer?  It
sends one file and can do IDW.  The only way to get it into a word document
is to make a jpeg or a BMP and insert that into a word document.  Maybe
saving as a dwg or a dxf would work but I think that the computer still needs
autocad to see those. 

 

Kathy Johnson
Message 5 of 19
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

Instead of a word document use PDF.  There is
a free print to PDF called "cutePDF".  Works great and is
free.



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I
have a client who doesn't want to download any viewers or open and files he
just wants the idw I made him embeddied in a word doc.

Is this possible?

Message 6 of 19
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

Just curious do you have the Autodesk Express
Viewer?


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FAQ for most common questions

href="http://www.sdotson.com/faq.html">www.sdotson.com/faq.html

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I
don't
Message 7 of 19
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

I don't because I have Inventor, but the client I am dealing with is to lazy to download something that will take 3 minutes. Plus our bidding Dept. wants to insert the drawings into the quote they sending, which is in word.
Message 8 of 19
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

The AEV is for viewing DWFs, not IV
drawings.

 

Just curious to prove a point to
myself.

 

Well if they are too lazy to spend 3 mis to receive
drawings then I don't know what to tell you.

 

You can save as a BMP or jpeg and insert that into
word.  I still say PDF is the best way to go.


--
Sean Dotson, PE

href="http://www.sdotson.com">http://www.sdotson.com

Check the Inventor
FAQ for most common questions

href="http://www.sdotson.com/faq.html">www.sdotson.com/faq.html

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I
don't because I have Inventor, but the client I am dealing with is to lazy to
download something that will take 3 minutes. Plus our bidding Dept. wants to
insert the drawings into the quote they sending, which is in
word.
Message 9 of 19
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

Send him a hard copy plot if he wants to reside in
the stone age.

 

Dave


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I
have a client who doesn't want to download any viewers or open and files he
just wants the idw I made him embeddied in a word doc.

Is this possible?

Message 10 of 19
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

We just had a customer say he needs the data in
AutoCAD 14 version. Luckily

I reloaded MDT 6 before IV8, I can pull the
exported DWG file up in vanilla acad

2002, copy the paperspace entities to a new drawing
(seemed the easiest way

to dump the proxy entities) and then save as R14!

 

Notived though that I got an exception error in
MDT6 trying to open a dwg exported

as acad2000 though, but that was exported from IV7.

 

Bob S.


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The AEV is for viewing DWFs, not IV
drawings.

 

Just curious to prove a point to
myself.

 

Well if they are too lazy to spend 3 mis to
receive drawings then I don't know what to tell you.

 

You can save as a BMP or jpeg and insert that
into word.  I still say PDF is the best way to go.


--
Sean Dotson, PE

href="http://www.sdotson.com">http://www.sdotson.com

Check the Inventor
FAQ for most common questions

href="http://www.sdotson.com/faq.html">www.sdotson.com/faq.html

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I
don't because I have Inventor, but the client I am dealing with is to lazy
to download something that will take 3 minutes. Plus our bidding Dept. wants
to insert the drawings into the quote they sending, which is in
word.
Message 11 of 19
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

I agree about the PDF part.  I spoke with an ADesk rep about this not
that long ago and it was obvious from his (non)answer that I should be
among the faithful and give PDF's up.  As far as I'm concerned, Adobe
licks their chops every time that they think ADesk might be approaching
them about an arrangement and ADesk refuses to play the game, so we're
stuck with coming up with ways to PDF on our own.

Doug, PDF'ing like a madman



Sean Dotson wrote:


cite="mid5A20E01C48104C043AA561CDF1AE17D7@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb">
The AEV is for viewing DWFs, not IV
drawings.

 

Just curious to prove a point to
myself.

 

Well if they are too lazy to spend 3
mis to receive drawings then I don't know what to tell you.

 

You can save as a BMP or jpeg and
insert that into word.  I still say PDF is the best way to go.



--

Sean Dotson, PE

http://www.sdotson.com

Check the Inventor FAQ for most common questions

www.sdotson.com/faq.html

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"fritsche" <chris@creation3d.net>
wrote in message news:f19efed.5@WebX.maYIadrTaRb...

I don't because I have Inventor, but the client I am dealing with is to
lazy to download something that will take 3 minutes. Plus our bidding
Dept. wants to insert the drawings into the quote they sending, which
is in word.

Message 12 of 19
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

Meanwhile Bluebeam Pushbutton PDF is being
incorporated into other SoftWare packages and they just announced they were
opening the API as well.  So this means you could customize the PDFs and
have certain events automatically trigger the creation of a PDF.

 

For example, every X mins it would print off a
PDF and store it somewhere.  Kind of a snapshot backup copy.

 

<sigh>

 

(BTW, have you tried to DWF a Word doc....? OMG
talk about a slow loading file...  I know AutoDesk is pushing DWFs only for
drawings but I don't want YET ANOTHER tool to deal with.  Actually I want
eDrawings for Inventor but as the old saying goes, you can wish in one
hand....)

 


--
Sean Dotson, PE

href="http://www.sdotson.com">http://www.sdotson.com

Check the Inventor
FAQ for most common questions

href="http://www.sdotson.com/faq.html">www.sdotson.com/faq.html

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I
agree about the PDF part.  I spoke with an ADesk rep about this not that
long ago and it was obvious from his (non)answer that I should be among the
faithful and give PDF's up.  As far as I'm concerned, Adobe licks their
chops every time that they think ADesk might be approaching them about an
arrangement and ADesk refuses to play the game, so we're stuck with coming up
with ways to PDF on our own.
Doug, PDF'ing like a madman

Sean Dotson
@ wrote:


type="cite">
The AEV is for viewing DWFs, not IV
drawings.

 

Just curious to prove a point to
myself.

 

Well if they are too lazy to spend 3 mis to
receive drawings then I don't know what to tell you.

 

You can save as a BMP or jpeg and insert that
into word.  I still say PDF is the best way to go.


--
Sean Dotson, PE

href="http://www.sdotson.com">http://www.sdotson.com

Check the
Inventor FAQ for most common questions

href="http://www.sdotson.com/faq.html">www.sdotson.com/faq.html

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I
don't because I have Inventor, but the client I am dealing with is to lazy
to download something that will take 3 minutes. Plus our bidding Dept.
wants to insert the drawings into the quote they sending, which is in
word.
Message 13 of 19
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

My latest Cadalyst newsletter stated that the
company behind eDrawings is working
on expanding the format to other packages besides
SW. Their first effort is to add
support to PTC wildfire. It did not say what would
come next after that, but I would
imagine Inventor support would eventually
materialize:
Message 14 of 19
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

Boy talk about censorship! Over half my message and
related links have been removed from

this post! I think if you are going to do that, you
should put a note that the messages was severly

edited and the reason why!

 

B.S. (Don't edit that, it's my
initials!)


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My
latest Cadalyst newsletter stated that the company behind eDrawings is working
on expanding the format to other packages besides SW. Their first effort is to
add support to PTC wildfire. It did not say what would come next after that,
but I would imagine Inventor support would eventually
materialize:
Message 15 of 19
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

It has never been appropriate to post links to competitors sites. I don't think you would
allow your competitor to put up a sign on the front of your building. Besides the message
read as much like a Add as anything. The section of the post that was pertinent to
Inventor (your words) were left intact.

You may want to review the discussion group ground rules
http://discussion.autodesk.com/WebX?groundrules@85.35vRan7upw1.0@

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Kent
Assistant Moderator
Autodesk Discussion Forum Moderator Program


"Bob Schader" wrote in message
news:8203548F9383ADD508527F43F2C72535@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> Boy talk about censorship! Over half my message and related links have been removed from
> this post! I think if you are going to do that, you should put a note that the messages
was severly
> edited and the reason why!
>
> B.S. (Don't edit that, it's my initials!)
> "Bob" wrote in message
news:BACAFCAA413F439A0972A13DC07898C7@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> My latest Cadalyst newsletter stated that the company behind eDrawings is working on
expanding the format to other packages besides SW. Their first effort is to add support to
PTC wildfire. It did not say what would come next after that, but I would imagine Inventor
support would eventually materialize:
Message 16 of 19
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

Kent,

I apologize for the first link copied from the
cadalyst email.

I just copied and pasted the text as I received it
from my cadalyst newsletter.

I thought the link went to their site, not (edited
competitor sitename).

Regarding the other
size=2>link to the company which will be responsible for providing

this alternative output support
face=Arial size=2>for Inventor (and already does support AutoCAD), I fail to see

how that could be
construed as a competitor. I certainly did not advocate the

use of another
size=2>software package in place of (or competing against) Inventor, but

information
size=2>regarding future products to be available for Inventor. More
like a news

release than an ad,
and in response to someone regarded on this group of high esteem

(Sean Dotson) lamenting that this format was not
available.. I can see where the

first paragraph does read like an ad
face=Arial size=2>as is, but thought nothing of it at the time because

it was telling about a product
face=Arial size=2>available to use with AutoCAD for the purpose of outputting

dwg files in this new form
size=2>as opposed to pdf and dwf filetypes. The removal of the second

part (news release)
size=2>statement as being a competitor product is tantamount to saying

all the providers of pdf
size=2>output solutions are also competitors and require removal of any

links relating to
size=2>those (free and commercial product alike).

 

I also strongly believe for whatever reason a
moderator's discretion for "removing"

a post would be, if they are instead going to
edit the message, then it is completely

wrong to edit it without acknowledging the
fact that it has been edited, no matter what

the reason is. This certainly is usually the case
where swear words have been replaced

with "(edited)" and the message has not been
removed entirely as per my interpretation

of the ground rules suggests. This act of
unacknowledged editing upsets me more than the

actual editing. Once I know the exact reason why
something has been edited, I and others

can try harder to not "break the rules" in the
future. 

 

Bob

 

> It has never been
appropriate to post links to competitors sites.  I don't think you
would
> allow your competitor to put up a sign on the front of your
building.  Besides the message
> read as much like a Add as
anything.  The section of the post that was pertinent to
> Inventor
(your words) were left intact.
>
> You may want to review the
discussion group ground rules
>

href="http://discussion.autodesk.com/WebX?groundrules@85.35vRan7upw1.0">
face=Arial
size=2>http://...

face=Arial size=2>@
>
> --
> Kent
> Assistant
Moderator
> Autodesk Discussion Forum Moderator Program
>
>

> "Bob Schader" <

face=Arial size=2>bobschader@yahoo.com
>
wrote in message
>

href="news:8203548F9383ADD508527F43F2C72535@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb">
face=Arial
size=2>news:8203548F9...

face=Arial size=2>...
> > Boy talk about censorship! Over half my
message and related links have been removed from
> > this post! I think
if you are going to do that, you should put a note that the messages
> was
severly
> > edited and the reason why!
> >
> > B.S.
(Don't edit that, it's my initials!)
> >   "Bob"
<

size=2>bobschader@yahoo.com
> wrote in
message
>

href="news:BACAFCAA413F439A0972A13DC07898C7@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb">
face=Arial
size=2>news:BACAFCAA4...

face=Arial size=2>...
> >   My latest Cadalyst newsletter
stated that the company behind eDrawings is working on
> expanding the
format to other packages besides SW. Their first effort is to add support
to
> PTC wildfire. It did not say what would come next after that, but I
would imagine Inventor
> support would eventually materialize:
>

>
Message 17 of 19
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

Bob

I will agree, that I should have probably put a note in saying it
was edited. I will tell you though that I edited it because of the
second link, never bothered following the first one. The second
paragraph had pricing and the link had the competitors logo on it.

I also am not real sure about if there is any copyright issues of
just copy pasting from a email newsletter. I would guess it is OK, but
sometimes we have to error on the safe side.

On a day like today with 300 posts just keeping up can be a effort,
but you are probably right, I could have done a better job by making
note of the editing.

I will try to do a better job next time something like this comes
up.

--
Kent Keller
http://www.MyMcad.com/KWiK/Mcad.htm

Assistant Moderator
Autodesk Discussion Forum Moderator Program

"Bob Schader" wrote in message
news:C3F13C75C91ED79FE8A78C6BF6E130AC@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> Kent,
> I apologize for the first link copied from the cadalyst email.
> I just copied and pasted the text as I received it from my cadalyst
newsletter.
Message 18 of 19
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

Chris,

Save your IDW out as DWF.

Use the Express Viewer to view your DWF, set the zoom as close as you
can and hit the copy button up top. (the copy basically does a screen
wysiwyg)

Open M$ Word and Paste.... bam!

You may need to crop and resize which takes 10seconds in Word.

Your lazy client will really like this as they print out beautifully. As
I understand it, the underlying process in this swap is WMF (vector
format) so resolutions will be excellent no matter how small you shrink
the image in Word.

QBZ




"fritsche" wrote in message
news:f19efed.5@WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> I don't because I have Inventor, but the client I am dealing with is
to lazy to download something that will take 3 minutes. Plus our bidding
Dept. wants to insert the drawings into the quote they sending, which is
in word.
Message 19 of 19
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

"Sean Dotson" wrote in
news:65C613276BA37860A45AA166B75162CA@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb:

>
> Meanwhile Bluebeam Pushbutton PDF is
> being incorporated into other SoftWare packages and they just
> announced they were opening the API as well. So this means you
> could customize the PDFs and have certain events automatically trigger
> the creation of a PDF. For example,
> every X mins it would print off a PDF and store it
> somewhere. Kind of a snapshot backup copy.

Now that, would be seriously cool.

Jason

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