If you go to open something, it will show you DWG files as well as DWF(x) files.
How about the product itself? Seems to work OK. When you run it, you’ll notice that it hasn’t had the UI of Doom treatment, so it looks like a cut-down AutoCAD from a few releases ago. The only versioning I can find is in Help > About, with a build version of 14.0.0.177. Note there’s no sign of a release number. In my case it also threw up an error during that uninstall, although it still seemed to go through with it. For example, if you wanted to keep using HP Instant Printing (not supported in the new release), this installation would mess you up. The install proper will uninstall Design Review 2013 without asking, which is antisocial. The Installation Help, System Requirements and Readme links in the installer all rather unhelpfully point to a generic Knowledge Network search. It would be useful to have these things documented.
You can then run as many installations as you like using the extracted files. This folder gets automatically erased on completion or cancel, so what you need to do is run SetupDesignReview.exe once, wait for the unzipping to finish but don’t go ahead with the install, copy the %Temp%\XXX.tmp folder elsewhere, then cancel the initial installation. I eventually found it in the folder %Temp%\XXX.tmp, where XXX is a random name, e.g. Running SetupDesignReview.exe (note the lack of version information), the extraction started but I couldn’t find out where it was extracting to. If you’re just installing it once, skip the next two paragraphs. This installer makes that difficult, but not impossible. If you’re a CAD Manager, there’s no point in having the unzip happen 100 times for 100 users when it could happen just once, so you’ll want to grab the extracted files and install from those. The downloaded executable is a WinZip self-extractor. The installed application is 212 MB, so it’s all a bit mysterious. On the bloatware theme, if there’s a particular reason this download (421 MB) is over eight times the size of its predecessor (49 MB), it’s not readily apparent. Readme – read this because there are many limitations and workarounds described.Interestingly, the new Design Review is not called 2018. It’s still only 32-bit, so it appears to be a matter of Autodesk just touching it up enough to keep it compatible. This wasn’t supposed to happen, because we should all now be using cloud-based solutions.Ī new version of DWG TrueView was needed to deal with the new DWG 2018 format, and one knock-on effect is that a new Design Review was needed to be compatible with DWG TrueView 2018. Despite the previously announced end-of-active-life for Design Review (Autodesk’s DWF viewer), there is now a new release available.
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