Create your own DWF Drawings
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Creating your own Whip! pages is not that difficult, particularlly if you have the plugin located locally. If you are new to Whip!, Whip! is a Autodesk development to help Autocad users publish their drawings over the Internet. Whip! is a browser extension (Plugin/ActiveX control) which enables you to view drawings converted to a format called DWF (Drawing Web Format). Whip! can be viewed in full window, that is, solely the dwf is displayed (as a web page) or the the other option is that dwf can be viewed in a window within a web page. Drawings can be zoomed, panned, saved views restored, layer visiblity altered, links to other pages/sites can be added within the drawing and the drawing can be printed.
There are various things you need to do to setup your machine, software and web pages to use all of these options.

How to Export DWF drawing in Autocad Rel. 14
A Lisp Routine to speed up the process of creating WHIP HTML pages
A Lisp Routine to generate a Generic CADviewer HTML Page
A Lisp Routine to Generate a Specific CADviewer HTML Page
Considerations to take into account

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Setup Pages

Introduction to DWF
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DWF Versatility & Limitations
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Exporting DWF drawing in Autocad Rel. 14
   
Exporting a DWF from Autocad Rel 14.

Dwf Export Options

To export as a DWF Using the Mouse:
· Select file menu
· Select Export Change Save type as… to Drawing Web Format *.dwf
· Select: Save

To export as a DWF Using the keyboard :
· Press: ALT F
· Press: E Change Save type as… to Drawing Web Format *.dwf
· Select: Save

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To export as a DWF, On the command Line:
· Enter:DWFOUT
· Select: Save

Also Toolbar customisation
 Download a Customised Toolbar menu to load into Autocad with Icons for all the added Dwf Internet Commands. Instruction how install the menu is included in the zip file. See menu for image of toolbar.

File options before saving, you have the following options:

  • Format
    Select Compressed Binary for a compressed binary DWF file. You can select uncompressed Binary, if you do not want compression (this is unlikely).
    If you need to modify a DWF file through an external process such as perl, you may find it easier to work with an ASCII DWF file.
  • Precision
    Select the precision (low, medium, or high) you want. The higher the precision, the more detail you can retain in the file; however, with more detail, the file size increases. For complex files you may want to experiment with increasing file size by increasing precision. The default is to use medium (20-bit) precision which is usually sufficient for most files.
  • Include Layer Information
    Include layer information is selected by default. If you want to generate a DWF file without layer information, for example so that browser users cannot turn layers off, you can clear this check box by selecting it.

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    Other Setup
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    Setting up Autocad for DWF
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    Create your own DWF Drawings
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    Create your own CadViewer HTML Page
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    Create your own Whip! HTML Page
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    View Sample Drawings with CADViewer
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    View Sample Drawings with Whip!



    Image of DWF Toolbar
    DWF Toolbar


     

     

     

     

     








    		  
    Lisp Routines to speed up the process of creating pages
       

    Lisp Routines to aid the file converstions

    Lisp Routine to export a DWF and create a HTML file
    to view the DWF using Whip!:

  • Autodesk has created a routine that if you want to save a DWF file and generate an HTML file each time you save a drawing.
    You can download a lisp routine from     ftp://ftp.autodesk.com/pub/Whip!/readme/saveall3.lsp.
    or Download from here.

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    Lisp Routines
    Saveall3.lsp

    View an Example
    Whip!_dwf.htm

    		  
    Considerations to take into account
       

    Some Considerations to take into account in the drawing session before creating a DWF:

  • Shaded views don't seem to work when viewed in IE5, other browser versions not tested as yet.
    Hidden views work but tend to show inaccuracies in smoothness of rendered line quality.
    View names are saved as long as the view is the angle as the initial Saved view.
    (panned/zoomed option on saved views only)
    If saving a drawing with multiple 3d views in paperspace, the DWF will only save one of these views and ignore the others.
    Layer information is saved, but block information is not.
    If using a 'drag and drop' …Save the drawing before exporting to DWF as the current drawing name is saved into the DWF file.
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    Lisp Routines
    Saveall3.lsp

    View an Example
    Whip!_dwf.htm

    		  
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