Suggested Replacement for Design Review

james_salter · ‎11-22-2021

Since Autodesk is no longer supporting the Design Review software, is there a good replacement for it? Our company adopted its use a few years ago and found it to work great for what we do. However, now, there are continual issues with files getting corrupted upon opening, with no way of getting your markups back. It is no longer reliable and we're looking for a viable alternative.

pendean · ‎11-23-2021

DWF is dead to the world, only lives in Autodesk's brain.

The rest of the planet has opted for PDF markups if their CAD software does not offer a more native not-exported-to-a-different-file-format option.

CGBenner · ‎11-23-2021

@james_salter

There are free viewers available that work with a lot of Autodesk file types. Take a look at these. The Online Viewer is also now built in to the latest releases of Vault.

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gharpA65WX · ‎11-26-2025

Not to be contrary, but the free viewers offer no way to mark up files or mark that revision is complete. Unless there is some functionality I am not aware of.

pendean · ‎12-01-2025

@gharpA65WX wrote:
Not to be contrary, but the free viewers offer no way to mark up files or mark that revision is complete. Unless there is some functionality I am not aware of.

"viewers" by their nature are not markup tools, correct. Only Autodesk is interested the DWF file format, no other 3rd party software vendor is at all. So this question for an alternative can only come from Autodesk, and they too seem uninterested in the file format to date.