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News Release from: Autodesk | Subject: Autodesk Design Review 2008
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 11 May 2007
Collaboration extended across project
teams
With Autodesk, users have access to review designs both online and offline anytime and anywhere
Autodesk has announced that Autodesk Design Review 2008, its comprehensive review, mark-up and design collaboration software, is now available worldwide for download free of charge Tight integration of Design Review with AutoCAD, Autodesk Inventor and Revit software products provides an easy-to-use, seamless solution for Autodesk customers collaborating in both 2D and 3D
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 22 Feb 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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"Autodesk Design Review keeps improving, and the latest version makes it even easier for reviewers not familiar with design tools such as AutoCAD, to fully participate in the design review cycle" commented Henrique Saias, CAD Manager at Lisbon Municipal Council.
"This platform's simplicity and reliability allowed us to increasingly supply external contractors with DWF".
Design Review supports all-digital collaboration and communication of design changes, as well as easy integration of feedback into Autodesk manufacturing, AEC and geospatial applications.
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Users can view files, print, measure and mark them up as part of the review process.
Autodesk Design Review 2008 helps improve these process efficiencies with new features:.
* 3D measuring and mark-up with persistent views and user-defined coordinate systems.
* Version comparison, allowing a reviewer to understand additions and deletions.
* Georeferenced DWF files, giving field workers quick coordinate location details with GPS integration.
* Contextual search, providing online access to ThomasNet and GlobalSpec product catalogue information directly from the design.
* Batch print with HP Instant Printing capabilities, accelerating printing productivity when sending multiple sheets or models to connected HP Designjet printers.
Autodesk's strategic alliance with Microsoft is also supporting customers' need to share CAD designs without requiring additional software to be installed.
Users of AutoCAD 2008-based products can now download the AutoCAD 2008 DWFx Driver from the Autodesk website and publish compact DWF files (DWFx files) or they can save designs as DWFx files from Autodesk Design Review 2008.
DWFx files can be shared within Microsoft's XPS Viewer which ships with Microsoft Vista, .NET 3.0 and Internet Explorer 7.0.
"Our customers are feeling the effects of forces at work around the world, from the globalisation of business to the demands of emerging markets - and their need to collaborate with customers, suppliers and people outside the development and engineering departments has never been greater," said Amar Hanspal, senior vice president, Platform Solutions and Emerging Business, Autodesk.
"Now companies of all sizes anywhere can take advantage of Autodesk solutions to level the obstacles to sharing and accessing design information, and ultimately, accelerate their design processes to be more responsive to business challenges and opportunities". Request a free brochure from Autodesk ...
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