error - you do not have a dwf viewing application installed

[GreyRider]

Publishing a set of dwg files to dwf.

It looks like the process completes but at the very end there is the error message:

         "you do not have a dwf viewing application installed"

I have Design Review 2018 installed. Have tried to publish from ACAD 2018 and 2015.

[pendean]

If you double-click on a DWF file on your PC, what happens?

[GreyRider]

If I double click on a dwf file it opens immediately, no problem.

The error happens when publishing a set of dwg filed to dwf.

I have done this frequently in the past without any problem.

I then batch print the dwf to pdf. This results in a high quality pdf file.

I have AutoCAD 2018 and Design Review 2018 installed.

[pendean]

I'm not seeing the problem here in R2018-ADR2018: what else changed on your system since this all last worked? Something did, software doesn't have moving parts to break by themselves. It could be software added, software removed, drivers for hardware added or removed etc.

You might have to reinstall ADR otherwise.

Or start publishing to PDF directly from AutoCAD and skip the ADR method.

[GreyRider]

Hello pendean,

OK.

I don't think there was any changes to my computer.

I don't know if it could be something with the dwg file itself.

Will continue to pursue an answer to this in due course.

May post on this again in future.

Thanks for looking into this.

[johbrie]

I just experienced this issue.  My root cause was that I was trying to save the DWF file to a network

directory that my co-worker had created.  The directory was write only access for my co-worker.

AutoCad was trying to write the file but could not because I did not not have write access to the

directory.  AutoCad was indicating that the file was being written but could not open because

of the no DWF Viewer.  I was looking in the directory and did not see the .dwf file.  

In a perfect world, AutoCad would try to write the file, get an exception from the operation system

as a write error, and pass that write error on to the user.  Not sure that the operating system and

AutoCad could do this handshake or not. 

Maybe update the description for this error to:

error - you do not have a dwf viewing application installed

or AutoCad/User does not have write access to the target directory.