“Aren’t DWF and PDF pretty much the same thing?” The recent Civil 3D and the Plan to Edit Mindset post featured an important video on the topic. Managed DWF publication workflows in Civil 3D will also help us: improve our internal QAQC processes develop and build functional feedback loops into our daily design processes and workflows and then repeatedly reap the benefits at Crunch Time on Deadline Day. DWF publicatioin works well for both civil engineering design and survey projects.Ī typical classic XREF basemap collection can resolve into hundreds or even thousands of AutoCAD Layers.ĭWF printer output set up with DWF Layer control turned on provides us a consistent method to considerably reduce the number of published layers we need to manage by orders of magnitude – an obvious and significant performance advantage. DWF It at Crunch Time on Deadline DayĪ Managed DWF publication strategy is a classic Divide and Conquer strategy we can employ to systematically attempt to reduce our publishing complexity problems in Civil 3D. It functions well in Civil 3D projects managed on local machines, networks, and document management cloud-based environments.Ĭivil 3D users and organizations can thankfully employ DWFs to significantly reduce the complexity of Civil 3D project and drawing publication and at the same improve the performance of those tasks at Crunch Time on Deadline Day. DWF publication is a core AutoCAD publishing functionality.

DWF-based publication is a powerful and useful publishing methodology in Autodesk Civil 3D.

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