topic Re: DWF 2008 support? in Collaboration with other software

DWF 2008 support?

Anonymous — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:35:41 GMT

It appears that ArchiCAD 12 can't read DWFs from AutoCAD 2008. This is quite bad because AutoCAD has no facility to publish to earlier versions (as far as I can see).

My problem is that we have AutoCAD 2008 here and I want to publish the sheets from a DWG file for referencing in ArchiCAD. I can't figure out any way to get the DWF files back to a format I can read and I don't want to go through all the hassle of tweaking layers in DWG.

I understand the difficulty of supporting the latest DWG since there is no help from Autodesk, but DWF is a published and supported standard that should be easy to implement.

Re: DWF 2008 support?

Thomas Holm — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:09:33 GMT

Matthew, there are a number of DWF to DWG or PDF converters to find by a Google search. Some of them should work (although I know it's a workaround, and probably expensive too).

Re: DWF 2008 support?

Anonymous — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:47:46 GMT

Could either of you point me to a DWF converter that works with Apple? Preferably free... I know that is a lot to ask but I hate to pay for something I'll likely only use once in a very long while....

Re: DWF 2008 support?

Djordje — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:11:16 GMT

SteveC0013 wrote:
Could either of you point me to a DWF converter that works with Apple? Preferably free... I know that is a lot to ask but I hate to pay for something I'll likely only use once in a very long while....

Install Windows on your Mac and it will work ... Autodesk is not known for MacOS support.