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Autocad 2016 Viewer replacement for Fastlook

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Autocad 2016 Viewer replacement for Fastlook

Anonymous
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Hello

We currently have fastllook 2009 which has always served us well, we have upgraded to Autocad 2016 and this version of fastlook will not display drawings modified or created by 2016 version.

We have many dwg and tif files and xrefs and we havent been able to find a viewer to replace it (apart from a $$$ fastlook upgrade), we were hoping the Trueview would do the job but it doesnt do the Tif format.

Any suggestions appreciated, I am an IT guy not an Autocad user so please excuse me if i havent described what im after accurately, i believe key features are measure and markup etc liek fastlook allows.

 

Thanks

Neil

 

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ToddRogers-WPM
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Use AutoCAD 360. https://www.autocad360.com/

It's free to sign up if you don't have an Autodesk ID.

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Alfred.NESWADBA
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Hi,

 

welcome @Anonymous.autodesk.com!

 

>> but it doesnt do the Tif format

What do you mean by "it doesn't do the tif-format"?

 

Do you mean it can't view tiff-files, then yes, the question is why you need that as there are millions of viewers for tiff-files.

 

If you mean that DWG-TrueView does not create tiff-files then I would say you just need a configuration to plot to tiff, and that is possible with DWG-trueview (not 100% sure as I don't have DWG-TrueView installed, but quite sure as plotting in DWG-TrueView works as in AutoCAD).

But in that case the other question would be: whatfor do you need tiff-files (if you can open and view and print the original files)? :cara_guiñando_un_ojo:

 

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Anonymous
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Thanks ill check out 360 product.

Re - Tiff files, i am not a cad tech so all i know is the drawing team have a lot of old drawings which were scanned in to teh drawing database as tiffs and we still need a single viewer that will display them

 

Thanks

Neil

 

 

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paullimapa
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As a temporary fix, you could have all the AutoCAD 2016 stations setup to always save down to a version that Fastlook 2009 can view.  While in AutoCAD 2016, type Options, click on Open and Save tab and under Save as drop down list, select the AutoCAD *.dwg format version that Fastlook can support.

 

 

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Anonymous
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thanks, thats a good suggestion, i just need to convince the drafting team

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paullimapa
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Should be easy since it's a free solution and no $$$ spent on upgrading Fastlook....yet...lol

 

 

 

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Alfred.NESWADBA
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Hi,

 

>> As a temporary fix, you could have all the AutoCAD 2016 stations setup to always save down to a version

I want to second the "temporary" fix. And please don't make that as default forever.

Two reasons for that:

  • old DWG-versions (and DWG2007 is really old) don't support all the new features, that means that
    • every save to that format has to convert newer objects to something based on old objects to then look identical in AutoCAD 2007 (it's comparible to explode with some preparations)
    • every open of such files has to recreate new objects from the old ones (like recreating a picture from a puzzle)
    • side effect: saving and restoring needs more time (performance goes down)
    • as well as using XRef's means lower performance
  • There are enough threads here seeing issues with defect drawings when saving to old formats, saved back a drawing and then not able to open that file

 

- alfred -

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