Hotfix - Autodesk Design Review 2009 SP1

We have just released a Hotfix to our website which tackles the following issues:

1. From within Design Review, the Save As command requires the open file to be saved as either a DWF or DWFx file. Externally, the SaveAs API does not have the same requirement, allowing files to be saved with any file extension resulting in a potential security issue.
2. Rapidly switching between Design Review and other programs may result in an EModelViewer error message, causing Design Review to stop responding.

The fix itself consists of an updated DLL for each of the problems. The ecompositeviewer.dll resolves the SaveAs problem and the emodelviewer.dll takes care of the rapid 3D switching crash.

The hotfix and corresponding ReadMe can be found here.

Thank you.

-Volker

Comments

[Erik Tomlinson]

Not directly related to this hotfix, but every time I start Design Review 20009 SP1 with or without this hotfix, it tells me there are new updates available. Clicking the link sends me to the already-installed SP1 download page. Slightly annoying.

[Volker Joseph]

Thank you.

You can either select "Do not show me this this again" or follow these steps

http://dwf.blogs.com/beyond_the_paper/2008/07/disable-autoupd.html

Thank you.

[Problems with links in DWFs]

After I installed SP1 the way Design Review handles links in DWFs changed. We have used javascript in the href to force-open a window of desired size when the link is clicked. This doesn't work after SP1 was installed, and now we have more than 100'000 DWFs with links that don't work.

Not happy!

[Volker Joseph]

Thank you for your feedback.

Please send me more details about the stated issue to volker.joseph@autodesk.com.

We are looking for the javascript as well as any other coding that fails now but has worked prior.

Thank you.

[Heiko Neblung]

Hi,

We are using Design Review 2009 SP1 within Productstream Professional 2009.

Some of our Users are running PSP 2009 on Citrix Presentation 4.5. Every time they use the DWF preview they get an error report when they close the window of PSP 2009 in which the preview window was used and PSP crashes.

We need to use the integrated preview to easily know if the dwf is up2date or not.

Do you have any hints what we can do?

Thank you.

[shawn kelley]

Everytime i dimension in Design Review, then subsequenly try to delete or select a dimension to copy or delete it, Design Review crashes...this is horribly frustrating and i loose all of my redlines everytime this happens...please advise...im about to delete this software from my computer.