dwf viewer....macintosh

[ntnik]

DWF viewer has worked very well. I have one contact that is on MAC. DWF seems only to be for use by PC (several operating systems). Any suggestions ? Or, just tell the MAC guy to go and wait for the fax. Revit can not be used with MAC, correct?

[ntnik]

http://www.macdwf.com/

this worked

[Dimitri Harvalias]

Good news and I'll let my McClients know. Too bad it's$40.

[iandidesign]

McDwiff wouldn't open a DWF that I produced in Revit (which has also been opened and saved in Design Review). It appears that McDwiff is a Mac front end for Autodesk's Freewheel. But Freewheel, which uses a web browser to connect to Autoddesk's servers where the DWF is rendered, works fine for me with Safari on my PowerBook. No special software required. And it's free. No mark-ups though.

Here's the official site:
http://freewheel.autodesk.com/

And if you use this address you get just the viewer and can better expand the view:
http://freewheel.autodesk.com/dwf_s.aspx

Anyone know how long uploads persist on the server?

Also of note, DWF is a published format. There is nothing platform specific about DWF, just most of the software that has been developed to date. As an example ArchiCAD can output views or sheets as a DWF + web reviewer bundle that can be opened, marked-up, and returned by users of either platform, with no special software installed. It uses a web browser to launch the Java based viewer that is delivered with the bundle. Just click the link and go. It's pretty slick, if somewhat antiquated (no 3D).