Design Review 2008 mark-ups not behaving in AutoCAD 2006

[chris.lutz]

We have ran into an issue with Design Review 2008.

I create a DWF in AutoCAD 2006. Open it in DR2008 and mark it up. I bring that saved markup back into AutoCAD 2006 and double-click on one of the markups. The display then starts acting weird. Only the markups show up and when I pan and zoom, it ghosts the markups everywhere. This happens on the 3 machines that I have tried it on. They are all different configurations with different hardware. I do have AutoCAD 2008 and everything works properly with the exact same markup. We are currently in development with AutoCAD 2008 and testing all of our applications but will not be ready to deploy company wide for six months or so. We are wanting to mass release DR2008 to the company very soon, but this might keep us from doing so.

Has anyone else ran into this issue? Can a couple other people try the same procedure to see if it might be a hardware/software issue on our end? I don't think it is since I've tried t on three different machines, but it could be. I'm leaning towards and issue with AutoCAD 2006 reading DR2008 markups.

Chris

[scott.sheppard]

In theory 2D markups should be loadable into AutoCAD 2006. That's the theory. If we were talking 3D markup, that would be easy since even AutoCAD 2008 does not support that. It is possible that the markup format got tweaked in the Autodesk Design Review 2008 development. Your data suggests this. I have only tested it myself with AutoCAD 2007 and AutoCAD 2008.

[chris.lutz]

Since most of the companies we work with countrywide, have not upgraded to AutoCAD 2007 or AutoCAD 2008, it would be a good idea to investigate this more on Autodesk's part and create a patch or service pack to fix this issue.