Both formats have their own strengths and weaknesses, but when talking about Autodesk products DWF is by far the easiest to work with providing the user the greatest amount of flexibility. Both Adobe Acrobat Reader and Autodesk DWF Viewer have been free downloads for years. Both formats offer users the ability to create a file which preserves its appearance, and that is easily viewed by other users through the use of a free viewer.

The Autodesk DWF format and the Adobe PDF format share a number of similarities. This multi-part blog will take an in depth look at how to make the most of this technology. While creating markups in Design Review is rather straight forward, understanding the full-circle of a markup set gets a little more involved. As mentioned in my previous post, it is now plausible to ask clients to install Design Review, and use low-cost DWF’s instead of pricey overnight UPS packages. Any changes you make to the DWF6 ePlot.pc3 file are used whenever you plot or publish DWF6 files until you change the settings of your DWF6 ePlot.pc3 file again.Autodesk’s decision to make their Design Review 2007 program a free download opens up the collaborative abilities of DWF’s to many across the board. Although you can save DWF6 ePlot.pc3 files under other names to use with the Plot command, no other name works with the PUBLISH command. This invokes the Plotter Configuration editor, where you can make changes directly to the DWF6 ePlot.pc3 file. You can use the DWF6 ePlot.pc3 plotter configuration file as installed, or you can modify it using the Properties button in the Plot dialog box. The DWF6 ePlot.pc3 plotter configuration file is the default driver for the PUBLISH command. You must use the DWF6 ePlot.pc3 file to plot DWF6 files. When you create DWF6 files, you use a plotter configuration file that uses a DWF6 driver.

You can specify settings for color depth, display resolution, file compression, handling of fonts, pen settings, and other options. However, when you need to make some subtle changes to your DWF6 ePlot configuration, you can do so through the DWF6 ePlot Properties dialog box. You are not likely to change the settings in the DWF6 ePlot Properties dialog box often.

Dwf6 eplot.pc3