Inventor viewer

[Anonymous]

I share files with customers and partners who don't have Inventor. I guess that's most of you too.

I found this 3 year old post about Design Review vs Inventor Viewer

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-forum/inventor-viewer-or-design-review/m-p/3840847

The conclusion was that DWF was the way to go as it is one file to share and the viewer is easier on computer hardware.

Personally I think Design Review is great in terms of one file wrapper but stinks in terms of ease of use once you have the model open.

I have also used A360. I have used this on my phone for viewing and it is great but I don't like that the Android app has much poorer frame rates and draw speed than displaying the same model on the same phone in Chrome. I also don't like that the share side panel in Inventor is really temperamental and often tells me I have no design shares.

What are other people's preferences, recommendations and comments?

edit: I should have added that I also found this page for comparing viewers

http://www.autodesk.com/viewers/all-viewers

[mcgyvr]

Depending on your needs I might look into using 3d PDFs instead..(Assuming you have 2017 up to date with all service packs because of bugs with it when it first came out).. 

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the tip. I tried the pdf export before updating inventor and gave up on it. I can't get the 3d view to work on Adobe Acrobat reader mobile though.

[mcgyvr]

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@Anonymous wrote:
Thanks for the tip. I tried the pdf export before updating inventor and gave up on it. I can't get the 3d view to work on Adobe Acrobat reader mobile though.

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Don't think mobile supports 3d objects.. Desktop only I believe..