Today I was trying to open a particularly stubborn DWFx file. In Autodesk Design Review 2013 it would stall completely. ADR 2018 would throw an error, crash or stall as well. I ended up using Autodesk 360 and Navisworks 2019/2020, and these were able to read the model.
However, in the process I found these links to install the very latest version of Autodesk Design Review:
Probably the browser one is the most interesting… Oh, is it only me that finds the misspelling of accuracy quite hilarious 🙂
JT Import Add-in Enables JT files to be accessed from within Design Review with full fidelity and accuracty.
DGN Import Add-in Working with DGN? Now Autodesk has a add-in for Design Review to enable importing of DGN files, making your design review process more seamless.
Autodesk® Design Review Browser Add-in The Autodesk Design Review Browser add-in for Autodesk Design Review software lets you view DWF™ files using Mozilla® Firefox® and Google Chrome for the Windows® operating system. Now, you can view embedded DWF files in Firefox and Chrome much the same way as you do in the Microsoft® Internet Explorer® browser.
If you open PDF files using the embedded vector data (ie. lines), you can then use ADR (Autodesk Design Review) to snap to PDF lines in order to measure them.
This may be useful to you if you are using ADR for markup tasks. In our office, we are still very much PDF-centric, and various PDF readers allow you to measure PDFs anyway, so … you get the idea.
If you want to force ADR to open PDFs as vectors, follow the steps on the following post at RevitForum: Design Review Tutorial
Some direct links (you will need to login to download):
Thanks to Tim West for the post, the training guide and the registry tweak. Nice job!
From Tim West’s PDF linked above
Manual steps from Instructions.txt: XP Open your system registry editor with command ‘regedit’ ‘HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareAutodeskDesign ReviewPreferences’ If there is not a key called ‘PDFImport’ please create it. Create a DWORD value whose name is ‘PDF Conversion Method’ and set its value as 2. Close your registry editor. Open your PDF files with ADR2012 PDF will be converted to DWF as vector; you can save this DWF file by then.
Vista/7 Open your system registry editor with command ‘regedit’ Expand ‘HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareAppDataLowSoftwareAutodeskDesign ReviewPreferences’ or ‘HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareAutodeskDesign ReviewPreferences’ If there is not a key called ‘PDFImport’ please create it. Create a DWORD value whose name is ‘PDF Conversion Method’ and set its value as 2. Close your registry editor. Open your PDF files with ADR2012 PDF will be converted to DWF as vector; you can save this DWF file by then.
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