Design Review? Anybody use it?

[payingtoomuch]

"Accidentally" published from autocad to Design review. Haven't looked into it in a long time but.....

Opened the file and started looking around and I kind of like the interface.... somewhat intuitive for an autocad user and I absolutely hate working with acrobat..... especially now.

Anyway, I played with it a little and thinking about giving it a shot. Can open pdfs in it and plot to pdf. thinking I might try a workflow something like....

Publish sheet sets to dwf> Markup in design review> Print to PDF for clients so don't need to bother them with design review.

Any downsides? May need to publish twice at times I guess.

Any quality losses going from design review and acrobat? Vice Versa?

Yes I know this is the wrong forum just wondering if anyone here is a convert and why before I go talking to all the hardcore converts.

[pendean]

We only use if for DWF content, which is rare these days as the entire planet seems to prefer PDF, and we all now have robust free, low-cost as well as paid PDF tools that far outstrip anything old development-stopped-back-in-the-year-2016 ADR today in the year 2023.

But hey, if it works great for you for PDFs then you should use it in the real world with your projects and enjoy the ride.

[payingtoomuch]

Haha pendean.... That's hilarious on some level.

Not sure if it works for me though.... because I haven't tried it yet..... still up in the air on whether or not I'm prepared to do that. Intuitive enough just trying to figure if it will make my brain swim having to bounce back and forth between acrobat and DR.... if in fact I would need to do that.

Wonder if there might be some issues with trying to use a DR document in zoom.... with sharing screen etc....

Unintended consequences you know!

[pendean]

@payingtoomuch download it and give it a try: it is the only way to decide for real if a tool is for you or not.

Teams/ZOOM/WebEx/SharePlus/Ring/Whatever screen shares are just that: screen shares. The application running in a shared view has nothing to do with that streaming process, so you are good to treat it like everything else on your PC.

[payingtoomuch]

I was talking more along the lines of markup and if I share a screen with with a DR document and a markup session is on that maybe there could be some issues. But, guess the reality is as you say no one is really marking up the DR document... They are marking up the screen. So really should not impact things.

[pendean]

@payingtoomuch unless you are on older version of AutoCAD... for the last 2+versions, you now have this built-in tool for more integrated markups https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2023/ENU/AutoC...
https://help.autodesk.com/view/ACD/2023/ENU/?guid=GUID-0CD6B2CE-EAF0-478B-B39B-F4821F9DC91D
https://help.autodesk.com/view/ACD/2023/ENU/?guid=GUID-3F94ED5A-EAB3-46F9-89F1-6605248EEA56

Again, ADR development stopped in the year 2016. There seems to be no life left in DWF toolsets.
It's 2023. Why go back in time to use an old tool if you are not using old software and old computers?

[payingtoomuch]

Well I guess since I'm still using R14 I missed that boat.

Well not quite but thought I was really current with 2020! Guess I still missed the boat.