Thursday, March 05, 2009

Freewheelin'


Autodesk Labs is a website where end users can see what's cooking in Autodesk development. Many of the cool/fun/weird things you'll find in Autodesk Labs ultimately get incorporated into existing products (such as Google Earth extension) while others end up as stand alone tools.

Project Freewheel is a way to view DWF files from your web browser - there's even a mobile version.

With the ShareNOW plug-in for AutoCAD (and Civil 3d!) you get a button in CAD that will publish your DWF, upload it to the Freewheel website and launch your project in your browser in one fell swoop. Damn, those Labs guys are good.

The attached Freewheel screen is from my good friend Dave K. who is CAD manager with RFC Engineering:

Feel free to explore and view his DWF with Freewheel. Zoom and pan just like Design review.

Thanks big D!

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