Autodesk Design Review 2010 - New Features Overview

The following features have been added to or enhanced in Autodesk Design Review 2010:

Enhanced user interface

• Design Review now has a more intuitive, task-based look, consistent with other Autodesk products

Highlighters

• Use the highlighter markup tools to draw attention to the desired information

Enhanced line formatting options

• Change line patterns and line start and end styles to modify the appearance of your markups

Save Markups Summary

• Design Review can now save a summary of all DWF file markup properties to a CSV file

Digital signatures

• To help secure your data, you can now digitally sign DWFx files

Open PDF files

• From within Design Review, open a PDF file and save it as a DWF file

Improved markup tools

• Choice of smaller font sizes
• Add and remove leaders to and from 2D callouts
• Secure markups preventing them from being changed or deleted accidentally

Printing enhancements

• Separately control printing colors for sheets and markups
• Print selected sheets from the Thumbnails or List View palettes
• Send the open file directly to the printer using Quick Print

More details will be provided soon, covering each of the new and enhanced features.

-Volker

Comments

[R.K. McSwain]

How do digital signatures help secure my data? Thanks.

[Stefaan Boel]

How about speed?

[Mohan]

We are integrating the Design Review 2010 viewer control into an inhouse .NET application. In that context, I'd like to know if there is any way of programmatically extracting the text part of markups in a DWFX file saved from Design Review 2010. Unfortunately the ExpressViewerControl API does not seem to have anything for exporting the markups to a CSV file programmatically, though the desktop product version has that facility.

Help would be truly appreciated.