New 3D DWF - Revit?

[Scott D Davis]

Autodesk announced in a press release that in mid-July, they will release the latest DWF format which will support 3D. Does anyone know if this means Revit models to DWF will have 3D capabilities? Pan, zoom, orbit, etc.? Factory guys, has there been any word on this?

[JamesVan]

If you read the press release closely, it seems that it is primarily geared towards Inventor:


With the addition of 3D capabilities, DWF Viewer 5 enables full visual and printing fidelity of the original Inventor models, but at a much more manageable size -- often 1/25 the size of the original Inventor model.

However, I will keep my fingers crossed as a strong believer in the DWF format.

[GuyR]

Revit models to DWF will have 3D capabilities? Pan, zoom, orbit, etc.

Inventor will be the first to generate 3D DWF according to the dwf newsgroup. My guess is the existing DWF writer doesn't have the capability. But when it does then yes you will be able to do all that.

And the best bit is they're using an open standard http://www.openhsf.org/ .

Guy

[Chad Smith]

Join onto the DWF Viewer 5.0 beta, then you will have access to the beta newsgroup for all the latest info. Can't say anymore than that.

DWF will really take off after 3D is fully implemented.

BTW, it looks very impressive. :cool:

[Phil Palmer]

Even the current version of DWF files that Revit create now is missing functionality compared to that of the latest ADT version.

With ADT I understand you can get the properties of the objects within the DWF file

I hope we at LEAST see that in the next version 7.0 ?