- [Instructor] Welcome to Autodesk Design Review.
In the previous video in this chapter what we did
was we saved out our drawing, our layout tab, to a DWF file.
And what you can do now is in Autodesk Design Review
you can Review that particular file.
So what I've done is I've got Autodesk Design Review
up on the screen.
Autodesk Design Review is a free piece of software
from Autodesk.
If you go to the Autodesk.com website
and search for Design Review,
you'll find the link to download Autodesk Design Review
as a piece of software onto your particular computer.
Bear in mind is Windows based only.
You cannot get Design Review for the Mac OS for example.
Now when you're in Autodesk Design Review
you're going to go and open up a DWF file.
So you see there, we've got our application menu,
we've got our quick access toolbar,
there's the open icon there.
So I click there
and I need to go to my desktop, which is just here.
And you'll see there that I've got a DWF file.
There it is there like so
and you see I've got various other like
twinmotion and unity and things on my machine,
and various other settings and tools
but there's the DWF sort of sitting in the middle there.
Obviously your DWF will be in your location
where you saved your DWF file to.
If I click on open now, that file will open up.
How lovely is that?
Look at that.
It's a really nice clean view of my drawing.
So what I've got there is a tool now
which will allow me to mark up this drawing
and save it as a DWF
and send it back to the originator of this particular file.
So what I can do is I can zoom in on an area.
I'm going to zoom in on the restrooms here.
And as you can see, when I zoom in,
I've got a no nice reasonable view there of the restrooms.
I'm going to go to the callouts panel
in the markup and measure tab.
So there's markup and measure, Callouts are there.
I'm going to click on rectangle callout with rectangle cloud.
And what that allows me to do is click and drag.
There's my cloud.
And then I can place a callout.
I'll pop it here like that.
And I'll just put something like check restrooms config.
So I want to check the configuration of the restrooms.
Might put a little dot there
just to confirm that it's an abbreviation.
So we're checking the restrooms config with that callout
and that revision cloud.
All I've got to do now is just hit escape a couple of times,
just to make sure that I deselect it.
What I might do as well is pop up here
and you can see there I've got things like home and pan
and zoom.
I've also got a fit-to-window.
So if I do fit to window, that's a bit like zoom extends
in your regular AutoCAD desktop application.
I'm also going to add a rubber stamp here.
I'm going to go for preliminary,
like so.
And I'll click over here near the notes
and just pop that underneath the notes to say, it's a
preliminary drawing.
So we've got the markup and the callout.
We've also got a stamp saying it's a preliminary drawing.
So what I would normally do now is I would save this DWF.
But what I'm going to do is I'm going to save it
with a different file name.
So what I'll do is I'll do save up here like so
or I can do a Save As if I want to
with a different DWF file name.
I'm not going to worry about file names too much
but what I want to do sure of
is make sure that you've got a DWF file
in your library to download.
So I'll make sure you've got a pre-marked up DWF
that you can utilize in your particular folders
so that you can follow along with the videos.
So what I'm going to do here, I'm just going to click on Save.
And that saves that particular DWF.
And you'll notice I can't save it again.
There's no option to save it again
because what you've done is you've locked in a particular
snapshot in time of that DWF file.
So the next time you work on this,
it'll be the next iteration of the drawing in a DWF format.
And what's really nice about that
is it creates an audit trail.
And the good thing is in the next video,
I'll show you how someone can open up this DWF in AutoCAD,
make the necessary changes,
and then save back out again to another DWF
so that you're creating that audit trail of revisions
on a particular project.