I think people will really like the new Autodesk DWG TrueView 2009. Autodesk DWG TrueView 2009 is geared toward users who do not have extensive AutoCAD experience. It has a nice streamlined ribbon-based interface.
By the way - look at that DWG. How many people remember Shaan Hurley's helicool.dwg? He created it for AutoCAD 2007. I have always liked it. But I digress.
Autodesk DWG TrueView 2009 has historically been used to view DWG files and publish them to DWF. Users would then use Autodesk Design Review to markup and measure the resulting DWF. Autodesk Design Review and DWG TrueView interoperate in that a user can import a DWG into Autodesk Design Review, and Autodesk Design Review 2009 will use DWG TrueView to create a DWF file on the fly. These capabilities continue to exist in DWG TrueView 2009; however, for DWG TrueView 2009, a user can measure a DWG without converting it to DWF.
This has been an often requested feature by those engineering teams who work with DWG files on internal networks.
For extended teams connected via the internet, DWF continues to offer the advantages of smaller file size, one stop shopping (no missing XREFs), and some protection of intellectual property (DWF only contains what you put in it; it's not your original DWG). // more
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Ich would prefer DesignReview with integrated DWG-Open/publish and NOT two applications. It is complicate to show a non-designer why he has two use DesignReview for DWF and TrueView for DWG. I'm an AutoCAD-Administrator and a -Manager, i also would prefer the installation of one programm on many computers here in our company.
Posted by: Al | February 20, 2008 at 07:30 AM
Thank you for your feedback.
The request for a single viewer has been issued many times and we are actively investigating this.
Posted by: Volker Joseph | February 20, 2008 at 11:41 AM
Volker,
:-D
I'd send you a box of cookies if I could. :-)
This might finally convince me to give up that 'other' viewer my guys have been using for the past few years.
(we use dwg's only, no dwf's, and all-in-one viewer might be nice for some folks that use both, but, I'm pretty happy now)
Posted by: MistressOfTheDorkness | February 20, 2008 at 12:53 PM
Dare I say, it's about time measurement was added.
As for the merging into a single program, I'm not too sure about that. For use inside your company where say managers may need to 'review' both DWG and DWF, then sure it makes sense.
But in the situation where clients only need to review a DWF, I don't think they would appreciate having to download a 125MB install which Trueview currently is, as opposed to downloading a much smaller 40MB install of Design Review.
Posted by: Chad Smith | February 28, 2008 at 08:14 PM
When will Trueview 2009 be released?
Posted by: Chris Summers | March 26, 2008 at 02:16 PM
It's available now at
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?id=6703438&siteID=123112
Posted by: Volker Joseph | March 26, 2008 at 02:22 PM
TV 2009 is VERY cool. Problem with it (and DR 2009) is that deployment is a bit screwed up.
Why is it not possible to use MSIEXEC /a to make an administrative install and deploy via active directory?
A blog detailing step by step how to do this would be muchly apreciated.
Apart from that little niggle I'm loving the 2009 product range
Posted by: Russ | March 31, 2008 at 04:51 PM
can i change the color off the different layers?
Posted by: Bert | July 08, 2008 at 04:21 AM
You should be able to do that through the layer properties manager of the application.
Posted by: Volker Joseph | July 08, 2008 at 08:20 AM
It is posible to use it in Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Basic 6 for doing software aplications schemas?
Posted by: Javier | August 01, 2008 at 06:36 AM
i find this software great, BUT, i cannot plot a pdf in monochrome, can anyone help ?
Posted by: johnny p | August 06, 2008 at 11:47 AM
can this be used to open properly (no glitches and all) a higher version of autocad, say autocad 2008 to a lower version...
Posted by: dj | August 14, 2008 at 09:28 PM
You should be able to open files of the same and earlier DWG formats.
Posted by: Volker Joseph | August 15, 2008 at 08:15 AM
I don't know about TV being cool... I like the autocad interface, but I am having a huge problem with xrefs not letting the file open, print previews not showing the entire layout, and getting plotter drivers for 2009 that work with it.
If anyone can fix my file open problem, let me know. I can open the file in acad 2007 and save back to 2004, then open in TV and it has no issue, but when I try to open a file it acts like it is corrupt and gives a message to recover the file first.
There should be no reason for this error, and it only occurs with drawings with at least one xref attached.
When our engineers can't open a file, it becomes a useless tool for us.
Posted by: B Johnson | February 24, 2009 at 02:38 PM
these apps totally rock!
Posted by: amanda m. | November 11, 2009 at 04:29 PM