Centex Homes’ Vice President of Architecture and Design, Kevin Scott, relies on Autodesk’s DWF format to create the company’s digital plan book.  This online resource allows designers in the company’s 58 divisions to view and access the latest designs.

In an effort to maintain their standard shipping guarantee of 24 hours, Hytrol Conveyor Company, designers and manufactures of industrial conveyor equipment, has turned to Autodesk to achieve this goal.

Autodesk has created Content Search, a web-based technology preview to search for generic or manufacturer-specific building products or components and associated design content. DWF is one of several file formats supported by Content Search, which can be viewed in Autodesk Freewheel with no installation required.

Advanced Dynamics, designers and manufacturers of heavy-duty material handling systems, are no strangers to the strengths of Autodesk’s Design Web Format as a feature of its data-management solution, and more recently the company has discovered the sales advantage DWF provides.

AutoCAD, Inventor, and Revit designs can now be published directly to the Web using Project Freewheel and the new ShareNow utility from Autodesk Labs. This direct-to-web innovation makes publishing a DWF version of any design as easy as clicking an icon.

St. Johns River Water Management District (SJRWMD) uses Autodesk Design Review as an inclusive, efficient tool to issue water usage and environmental resource permits.

A new plug-in utility give Microsoft search products the ability to work with DWF files. 

Need help in creating a DWF file for review? There is a new online tutorial at YouTube just for you. The walkthrough, presented by YouTube member jasonwpratt, provides a visual step-by-step into the creation of a DWF file from AutoCAD. Users are provided with proper plotting settings or printer settings and paper settings. 

The planning office for city of Castle Rock, Colorado has become a national leader in the ability to offer digital plan review. Castle Rock’s chief building official Rick Mendez is pioneering the use of the free downloadable Autodesk Design Review for residential and commercial development plan reviews. According to Mendez, Castle Rock is currently the only community in Colorado, Wyoming, Arizona and New Mexico taking advantage of digital file review.