AutoCAD 2008 Publishing Tips

Here are some tips for DWF from our Senior Product Manager for DWF, Diane Li.

1. Use AutoCAD's built-in Publish or Plot commands. Do not plot to the DWF Writer from AutoCAD, since this approach lacks design metadata and can result in a 90 degree rotated DWF.

2. Publish from layouts, not modelspace.

3. Use Publish, not Plot for the easiest, most powerful publishing.

• Batch publish single- or multi-sheet DWFs

4. Use Auto-Publish DWF on Save/Close (new in 2008).

• Tools > Options

5. Publish DWFs from the Sheet Set Manager.

• One button Publish
• Fixed in 2008:  When using the Publish with Page Setup Override option to create a DWF file, AutoCAD 2008 honors the Sheet Set Publish Options enabling you to publish to a multi-sheet DWF file.

In Design Review
See Bookmarks that display the sheet set hierarchy

6. Publish DWFx files to share with Microsoft Vista users.

• Download DWFx driver from http://www.autodesk.com/autocad/

Select Services and Support > Data & Downloads > Utilities and Drivers

7. Roundtrip and republish DWF files with markups. 

8. Import DWF in AutoCAD as underlay.

• Control over visibility of layers - select the DWF Layers option from the right-click menu with a DWF file selected, or use the DWFLAYER command.

9. Publish and Email DWFs (shell extension).

• Right click on a DWG in Explorer
• Select from Publish DWF, Publish DWF and Email options

10. Customize DWF6 ePlot.pc3.

• Publish high-resolution (dpi) for viewing, measuring

11.  Publish block attributes. More...

12.  3DDWF publish – available from Publish dialog.

Any questions? Let me know!

--Volker

Comments

[Anthony Kilkenny]

I don't seem to be able to get the same output using the AutoPublish feature (when checked on the Options menu) than when just plotting to the ePlot.pc3. Any suggestions?