Revit + DWF + Design Review a Total Win.
Revit + DWF + Design Review a Total Win.
With many firms successfully navigating the waters of migrating to a BIM solution for design work, a new issue has developed. Senior designers, project managers and or management people have been left behind on the technical front. It is too costly, hazardous or sometime downright unfeasible to install a full seat of Revit on their computers so they can view or print sheets out of Revit. The solution is to either install Revit on their computer (If the hardware can run it) and wait for it to time bomb or to have your users remember to print updated DWF files for design staff to use with Design Review. The issues with that are numerous and can add to frustration and confusion as to the process involved.
The solution is a small application that installs into Revit and automates the process of generating the DWF file. The products name is AutoDWiF Generator (ADG) and costs only $65 an install. Every time a designer works in the Revit project and saves and closes the project file ADG prompts if the user would like to create updated milestone DWF files. It also always updates a master DWF file that resides in the root directory of the project so that DWF is always guaranteed to be up to date.
