- We're staying in our saved drawing
which is the GF-1031 Southeast Madison REV1 Complete.
So this is our completed project, for example.
That's why I put the complete in the file name.
Now up until now, we've been working with
plotting out from AutoCAD and printing to things like a PDF
which is quite a well known
and recognized electronic file format.
Now, one of the things you can do
in AutoCAD is you can plot out to a different file format.
It's called the DWF format, sometimes known
as the document web format or the design web format.
And what it does is it creates almost
like an Autodesk kind of PDF file.
But the benefit you have when you create one
of these DWF files is it can be opened
up in an Autodesk product called Autodesk design review,
which then allows you to red line and mark up your DWF file
and send it back to the originator of the original drawing.
So what we're going to look at in this video
is how we output to DWF.
And then in the next few videos, we're going to look
at how that works with Autodesk Design Review
and how we can then open up the file in AutoCAD to look
at the red line markups applied in Autodesk Design Review.
So what I'm going to do here is simply use the export tools
in the export to DWF PDF here.
So I've got our drawing open,
I'm in the ISO A1 landscape tab.
I'm then going to go here to the little flyer
and I want it to go out to a DWF file, so I click that.
That'll actually open up, as you can see,
a save as DWF dialogue box.
No change there.
Same as save as PDF, right?
But what I can do here
I can update things and change things.
I'm just going to save this to my desktop on my PC for now.
And you can see there
there's the DWF file and you can see one there.
It's got the GF-1031 Southeast Madison REV1 Complete DWF.
So what it's going to do is it's going to plot out
everything for me and save it to my desktop,
but as a DWF file.
Now you'll notice in the options,
I can specify where the file's going to go, et cetera.
I can output controls here,
I can open in the viewer when done.
If I've got Autodesk Design Review installed,
it'll open up the DWF file.
A bit like Acrobat and PDF, for example.
I can also include a plot stamp if I want to.
So if I include that there and click there,
I can set on my plot stamp settings for my DWF
if I want to as well.
I'm going to untick that for now.
I'm going to export out
using the current layout, as you can see,
which is my ISO A1 landscape.
My page setup, I'm just going to use the current one,
or I can override and override the settings if I want to.
I'm going to cancel that and set that back to current.
I don't need to override the page setup I'm using.
So all I've got to do now is literally just hit save
and that'll save that file.
You see the screen flicker there.
And give it a few seconds and that'll actually save that
and let me know that that plot and published job
is complete with the little bubble down here.
I can click and view the plot and published details there,
You can see it's all gone there and it's using DWF six
et cetera, et cetera.
I'm going to close that now.
But now what I've got is a DWF file.
And I can use that in Autodesk Design Review,
which is what we're going to look at in the next video.