I disagree in part. I and the companies I have worked for have always relied
on the viewer shipped with Inventor Series (and before that Mechanical
desktop power pack) to provide employees without autocad to view the files
we create. The "README-Limited_DWG_Viewer_Redistribution.doc" on the Vault
CD says this:
README-Limited DWG Viewer Redistribution
Subject to the terms of the accompanying End User License Agreement, you are
allowed to distribute the Autodesk DWG Viewer only within your company;
distribution can be up to 10 seats per every Autodesk Inventor Series or
Autodesk Inventor Professional seat under subscription with a maximum of 200
viewer seats. Anyone outside your company who is not an Autodesk Inventor
Series or Autodesk Inventor Professional subscription customer will need to
purchase Autodesk DWF Composer or Volo View 3.
Which implies our strategy is not far fetched or unique. We simply want a
viewer that displays the graphics properly. Note that 'Powered by Volo View'
and VoloView 3 also had this problem. We have enough to do here without
making sure a file format besides the native dwg is maintained and updated
for every revision to the dwg, hence the need for a dwg viewer internally
for manufacturing, purchasing, management, etc.
thanks,
Kevin
"Rodney McManamy - CADzation" wrote in message
news:41005275$1_2@newsprd01...
> I haven't had time to play with the DWG Viewer in composer yet but it
sounds
> like a bug to me. Keep in mind that the DWG Viewer is in no way designed
to
> be a full fledged AutoCAD, MDT, ADT, and all the rest viewer. It's
> basically in there to provide basic support for those who don't have
AutoCAD
> and to keep the hounds off them for dropping Volo View. Whoever creates
the
> drawings in AutoCAD creates the DWF from AutoCAD which is then viewed and
> marked up in Composer and sent back to the person with AutoCAD to view the
> DWF markups and change the AutoCAD drawing.
>
> The whole idea behind DWF was to get a format that the viewer could be
> lightweight and not the 100+ MB that Volo View morphed into to support
> viewing everything (or close to everything). With DWF you don't have to
> worrry about font files, ctb, stb, xrefs, pc3, pmp, shx and all the other
> great things that are not stored in the drawing in the first place. But
to
> do true high resolution converting to DWF you'll want to use the original
> app that it was created in.
>
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> "Kevin Terry" wrote in message
> news:40ffb0a5_2@newsprd01...
> > See attached images. The mdtview.png shows a screen shot of the parts as
> > they look in mdt, the other shows the same drawing in dwg viewer.
Changing
> > the circle smoothness and polyline segments settings under options has
no
> > effect.
> >
> > thanks,
> > Kevin
> >
> >
> >
>
>