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AutoCAD Utility Provides One-Click Real-time Design Review without installing a Viewer

Post a Comment Aug-24-2007 | Posted by Scott Sheppard | Printable Version | Level |

Need a way to share your 3D and 2D DWG designs with others easily from within AutoCAD 2008? Do you want to hold real-time design review sessions? Do you need a way to gather design feedback from others who don’t have CAD Viewers installed?

Project Freewheel, available from Autodesk Labs, allows anyone to view and markup your AutoCAD designs using just their browser. You can conduct a design review in real-time where everyone in a sharing session sees the same view of your AutoCAD design along with the markups made by the participants. The first step of the process is to get your design into Project Freewheel.

The Project Freewheel 3D/2D ShareNow Utility provides you with the ability to load your design into Project Freewheel with the click of a button. The utility is available for AutoCAD 2008. When installed for AutoCAD, ShareNow and ShareDSD commands become available. These are available from icons on the menu toolbar or the command line. ShareNow lets you share your current drawing (as long as it has been saved). ShareDSD lets you share a set of drawings. More information is available at the Autodesk Labs site.