topic Re: DWG viewer in Collaboration with other software

DWG viewer

Aussie John — Fri, 01 Oct 2004 04:45:08 GMT

Volo viewer is no longer available. Any other ideas for DWG viewer on a PC (virtual PC)? Mainly to view product literature. Thanks

Re: DWG viewer

Djordje — Fri, 01 Oct 2004 06:45:55 GMT

Aussie wrote:
Volo viewer is no longer available. Any other ideas for DWG viewer on a PC (virtual PC)? Mainly to view product literature. Thanks

Many free options; some not so.

Check in Tips&Tricks.

Re: DWG viewer

stefan — Fri, 01 Oct 2004 07:29:43 GMT

Autodesk has free DWF-viewers and they also have a DWG-viewer, but I can't seem to find out if it is free.

There are many other programs if you're on a PC. On a MAC is more of a problem, though.

http://www.infograph.com/products/dwgviewer/

Re: DWG viewer

Anonymous — Fri, 01 Oct 2004 07:44:50 GMT

hi, found 1 at download.com and is free ware. I has yet to try it out so not sure how user friendly, give it a try.

Search on Free DWG Viewer, should be able to lead you there.

Re: DWG viewer

James Murray — Mon, 06 Jun 2005 15:55:09 GMT

FYI, just came across this Mac-compatible eDrawings viewer. In my brief, very superficial evaluation it seems to work.

Re: DWG viewer

Thomas Holm — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 12:26:59 GMT

stefan wrote:
Autodesk has free DWF-viewers and they also have a DWG-viewer, but I can't seem to find out if it is free.

There are many other programs if you're on a PC. On a MAC is more of a problem, though.

http://www.infograph.com/products/dwgviewer/

I fond this statement on MacWindows: http://www.macwindows.com/

"Autodesk Inc., has released Autodesk DWF Toolkit, a software development kit that enables developers to create applications that read, write, view, print and query DWF files. For the first time, this version supports multiple operating including the Mac OS X and Linux."

The future looks brighter.

Re: DWG viewer

SeaGeoff — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 04:45:52 GMT

Not free, but worth a look http://www.macroenter.com/dwg.php?PHPSESSID=57797ff0581531758e0a14dc26cbb150

Re: DWG viewer

Anonymous — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 19:55:51 GMT

stefan wrote:
Autodesk has free DWF-viewers and they also have a DWG-viewer, but I can't seem to find out if it is free.

There are many other programs if you're on a PC. On a MAC is more of a problem, though.

http://www.infograph.com/products/dwgviewer/

Tried this viewer, less than happy with results. text that had width factor other than 1 defaulted to normal width. i.e. notes column spread over edges of drawing sheet, among other things.

Does anyone have an update on this situation? I have a consultant working on AutoCAD 2006 and only have 2002 version myself. He is having trouble with his system so I can't get him to save down to older version or create PDF's.

Cheers

Re: DWG viewer

Brad Elliott — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 20:16:28 GMT

I have found eDrawings to work well with DWG files. It will show model space and paper space sheets and is pretty quick. I would recommend it if what you are wanting to do is not too complicated. And it is free.

Re: DWG viewer

Djordje — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 05:37:53 GMT

There is a free DWG viewer from Autodesk, called DWG TrueView 2007. No redlining etc like in the deceased VoloView, but great for viewing and printing.

Also, if you need conversion from the 2007 format (as we do) there is a DWG TrueConvert - also free.

Just go to Autodesk web site and download.

Re: DWG viewer

Anonymous — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 20:09:45 GMT

Brad wrote:
I have found eDrawings to work well with DWG files. It will show model space and paper space sheets and is pretty quick. I would recommend it if what you are wanting to do is not too complicated. And it is free.

Brad

Installed eDrawings. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but I can't get the model space view to show in the Paperspace layout. If I click on Border in the layout navigator I just get an empty title block. when I click on the Drawing View 1 in the navigator, I see a huge outline and tiny title block, no drawing information.

Djordje
Trying TrueView too.
A bit of rain over the weekend in Dubai, was there? (I saw some of the Rugby Sevens / mud wrestling)

Re: DWG viewer

Djordje — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 17:42:23 GMT

s2art wrote:
A bit of rain over the weekend in Dubai, was there? (I saw some of the Rugby Sevens / mud wrestling)

Heh

A deluge by the local standards ... A lot of 7s "fans" (the ones that go there to be seen) did not show up.

You should have seen the flooded underpasses, and the lack of driving skills in the rain ...

It is actually raining now for more than a week. Very unusual for this time of year. Today is the first dry day since the Friday before last.

Re: DWG viewer

Brad Elliott — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 18:09:38 GMT

S2art,
I'm on a Mac so it's a little different but that looks right. and I would agree with your assumptions about the Border and Title Block. When I select the layouts the drawings show up correctly. Are you sure the dwg you are looking at is formatted correctly?

Re: DWG viewer

Anonymous — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 20:16:03 GMT

Djordje wrote:
It is actually raining now for more than a week

.

Welcome to our world. (Actually, things are starting to brighten up here, we had a very wet winter though).

Brad wrote:
S2art,
I'm on a Mac so it's a little different but that looks right. and I would agree with your assumptions about the Border and Title Block. When I select the layouts the drawings show up correctly. Are you sure the dwg you are looking at is formatted correctly?

Yep. Downloaded TrueView and all is good. It works well, The only problem is you have to register and now Autodesk know who I am Drawings seemed to be formatted correctly when viewed in TrueView so don't know what was up there.

Thanks for the tips, guys.

Re: DWG viewer

Steve Jepson — Tue, 22 May 2007 20:59:32 GMT

if anyone still needs the link

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/mform?id=8318668&siteID=123112

for the DWG TrueConvert.