Measurement Disabled DWF files from Autodesk Inventor R11 DWF Extension (Part 2 of 3)

Yesterday I provided six sample DWF files. Two of them were originally supplied as samples with Autodesk Inventor R11. By design, these DWF files have measurement enabled. The other four samples were published by Autodesk Inventor R11 DWF Extension. Autodesk Inventor R11 DWF Extension provides the user with a choice: enable or disable measurement for a DWF. As such, two of the samples had measurement enabled. The other two samples had measurement disabled.

Autodesk DWF Composer R2 has been renamed to Autodesk Design Review 2007. This blog article lists how these two releases operated with these DWF files in terms of the ability to measure. The results were a series of success and warning messages - all of which were expected behaviors from these releases.

File	Published by	3D or 2D	Measurement	DWF Composer R2	Design Review 2007
R11Shaver3D	R11	3D	Enabled	could measure	could measure
R11Shaver2D	R11	2D	Enabled	could measure	could measure
R11deShaver3D enabled	R11 DWF Extension	3D	Enabled	warning 1: lock up	could measure
R11deShaver2D enabled	R11 DWF Extension	2D	Enabled	warning 2: load failure	could measure
R11deShaver3D disabled	R11 DWF Extension	3D	Disabled	warning 1: locks up	warning 4: measurement tool unavailable
R11deShaver2D disabled	R11 DWF Extension	2D	Disabled	warning 2: load failure	warning 3: measurement tool unavailable

The Autodesk DWF Composer R2 testing was executed on my laptop even after the free Autodesk DWF Viewer 7.0 and Autodesk DWF Writer 3.1 were also installed. I wanted to make sure that shared components didn't inadvertently enable measurement capabilities. So unlike the situation where Autodesk DWF Composer R1 could be updated by installing Autodesk DWF Viewer 6.0, this was not the case.