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Publishing 2D or 3D DWF
The Design Web Format
™
(DWF
™
) is the Autodesk method of publishing design data. It offers an alternative
to publishing to PDF (Portable Document Format).
DWF files allow you to share design information securely and easily. Using the DWF format, you can avoid
unintended changes to project files, and you can share project files with clients and others who do not have
Revit Architecture. DWF files are significantly smaller than the original RVT files, making them easy to send
by electronic mail or post to a web site.
DWF files can be viewed by recipients using Design Review, which is available for free download from
http://www.autodesk.com/designreview .
About DWFx
The meaning of the term DWF has expanded to include DWFx. DWFx is based on the XML Paper Specification
(XPS) from Microsoft, making it easier to share design data with reviewers who do not have Design Review
installed. DWF and DWFx files contain the same data (2D and 3D), the only difference is the file format.
DWFx files can be opened and printed using the free Microsoft XPS Viewer, which comes pre-installed on
computers using the Microsoft Windows Vista
™
operating system. (For the Windows XP operating system,
the Microsoft XPS Viewer can be downloaded directly from Microsoft.) Unlike DWF files, DWFx files include
additional information to display design data in the Microsoft XPS Viewer. As such, DWFx files are larger
than corresponding DWF files.
Currently, the Microsoft XPS Viewer does not support views containing 3D content, password-protected
content, restricted content, or georeferenced map coordinates. In the Microsoft XPS Viewer, when attempting
to open views containing any of these unsupported features, a warning directs you to view the DWFx file
in Design Review.
NOTE All references to DWF in this documentation implicitly include DWFx, unless specified.
2D DWF Files
You can publish all Revit Architecture views or sheets to 2D DWF files. If you publish multiple views in a
project to one DWF, in Autodesk DWF Viewer you can click a link to jump to a related view.
If you publish a 3D view to a 2D DWF file, the resulting image is a 2D representation of the 3D view, like a
snapshot. You cannot manipulate the image as you can when you publish the 3D view to 3D DWF.
When you publish a project or view that has rooms or areas to 2D DWF, you can publish the room/area
properties to a layer that is separate from the geometric representation. With this option, you can view
individual rooms and room data when you are publishing a project or a view for use with facility management
software (such as Autodesk
®
FMDesktop), or DWF markup software (such as Autodesk
®
Design Review).
3D DWF Files
You can publish 3D views to 3D DWF files. Using Autodesk
®
Design Review, you can open a 3D DWF file
and manipulate the 3D representation of the building. You can rotate the building, zoom in on a portion
of it, select an element (such as a roof), make it transparent to see what is beneath or behind it, and so on.
Object Data and Published 2D or 3D DWF Files
When you publish to 2D or 3D DWF, a unique, consistent ID is generated for each object. This ID consists
of the GUID (Globally Unique Identifier) and the element ID. This ID scheme virtually eliminates duplicate
element IDs when DWF files are merged from multiple sources outside Revit Architecture.
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