DWF Composer and Revit?

[bmadsen]

Autodesk has been promoting DWF over PDF. Now there is DWF Composer for redlining with a clear "round-trip" (to AutoCAD 2005) redlinning feature. A review of the product can be seen at: http://www.aecbytes.com/review/DWFComposer.htm

Note: DWF Composer does not work with Revit.
Will Composer work with Revit in the future? Do you think it needs too?
This is about work-flow and process.

Is Revit simple enough that the "non-cad" Architect can make their own revisions? Will they?

How about some feedback from those with some experience with this.

[hand471037]

I'd love to see the DWF be able to make a 'round-trip' with Revit. That would make it vastly simpler to coordnate between remote offices where one is making redlines on the other's drawings. It also opens up the possiblity of off-shoring and farming work out with more reliability.

[beegee]

LINK (http://forums.augi.com/showthread.php?t=4244) to similar thread.

[beegee]

Synopsis from AEC Bytes (http://www.aecbytes.com/review/DWFComposer.htm):-


Product Summary
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Autodesk DWF Composer is a new application for reviewing, marking up, and revising DWF files for electronic publishing and distribution of design documents.

Pros: Relatively low price tag; modest system requirements; simple and minimal interface that is easy to learn and use; allows viewing of ADT object data; extensive set of navigation and design-specific markup tools; supports round-tripping of markups with the AutoCAD 2005 product family for a smoother and more efficient iterative review process.

Cons: Benefits are most compelling only for the AutoCAD 2005 product family; current focus is still on 2D CAD processes with no support for the publishing requirements of a 3D building information model.

And, from a Revit_centric viewpoint :-


For those working solely in Autodesk Revit without using AutoCAD at all, the benefits of DWF Composer are less compelling. For one, the DWF file does not contain Revit object information. Also, markups cannot be read back into Revit. The case for using DWF for electronic publishing, as opposed to the more ubiquitous PDF, then becomes more difficult to justify. This is also true when other applications such as ArchiCAD, VectorWorks ARCHITECT, and so on are the primary ones used for design.