Being smaller, they download faster and are easier to send via e-mail. And, even though this article is titled 'DWF Secrets Revealed!' you will soon come to realize that DWF secrets are about as complex as the recipe for ice cubes.ĭWF was originally introduced to be a small, compact version of AutoCAD drawing (DWG) files to be posted on Web pages. ĭWF stands for Design Web Format, although when it was introduced many people referred to it as the Drawing Web Format. You know, I have often wondered why 'phonetic' is spelled that way. Let's start by clarifying a basic item, which is that DWF is pronounced exactly as it is spelled. Perusing the index to the 181 Learning Curve columns that I've written so far, I realized that I've never discussed DWF files. This was compounded by the fact that AutoCAD 2008 changes attribute extraction significantly, and for the better, so I decided to shelve that topic until more of you are using 2008. I was all set to roll with a followup column on attribute extraction only to realize at the last moment that Lynn Allen had done an excellent article on the topic about a year and a half ago. My last two columns covered attribute definitions and use. The really bad news is that this opening doesn't even give me a clean segue into this month's topic. 'I agree,' replied his gorgeous wife, 'but it's less than four days since we got back from nine days in Puerto Vallarta!' 'I'm sick of this terrible weather,' moaned the Captain, 'We need a tropical vacation.' It was only March 22, Captain LearnCurve's 64th birthday, and already Vancouver had broken the record for March rainfall. DWF Secrets Revealed! (Learning Curve AutoCAD Tutorial) 30 Apr, 2007 By: Bill Fane The DWF file format and Design Review team up.

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