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Looking to improve your process, turnaround time and generally cost of your Design Document Reviewing (Redline) Process then take a look at Autodesk Design Review. It combines the convenience of electronic paper with the rich viewing, tracking, querying, plotting, printing, workflow, and security capabilities that fits nicely into your process. DWF™ (Design Web Format™) developed by Autodesk to quickly capture and securely distribute design documentation anywhere.

Take a look at the process of the traditional paper plotting-distribute-markup-return-revise-republish at a minimum involves a 4 plus day turnaround. Implement a paperless Design Document Reviewing Process with DWF™ is easy and helps in eliminating the costs associated with plotting, paper, shipping, and technicians. Also consider the delays involved in distributing designs via external physically distributing system (UPS, FedEx, DHL, Courier, PM, etc), the out of date information that was just distributed, and the biggest of all not able to track these modifications with comments which turn into costly mistakes.

Autodesk Design Review is a time and money saving tools to view, print, and mark up design documents, similar to Adobe Acrobat. Most of you are familiar with Adobe Acrobat so let’s consider the features and capabilities versus DWF. Both formats are designed to produce self-contain files; supporting multiple pages, printing, and sharing over the internet. Design Review was designed specifically for sharing rich design data, where PDF was designed for textural-based document sharing.

A couple of things to consider is DWF files are normally much smaller than PDF’s – saving an average or 1/3 to 1/10 the size of corresponding PDF. DWF supports advanced markup remarks, timestamps, history, real-world units of measurements, and status information.

The last difference, bottom line the most important by most, is the price – Autodesk Design Review is Free.

This document is the beginning in a series to discover this migration process in detail and how to utilizing Autodesk Design Review. We hope you take the time now to learn and implement tools to manage your business processes to ensure a well-managed and successful business.