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Viewing Autocad Drawing Files Software wanted to view and print AutoCAD files

#1 Budapest

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Posted 22 November 2006 - 07:07 AM

Does anyone know of any good freeware products to view and print AutoCAD drawing files (other than Volo View).

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Posted 22 November 2006 - 01:37 PM

I cannot vouch for how good it is, because I personally have never used it. But one of our engineers says it does the job okay based on the price (free). :thumbsup:

Free DWG Viewer

powered by Brava click here

It's the third item down.
Let us know what you think of it.

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#3 need TOS

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Posted 22 November 2006 - 07:03 PM

Hey,

Here is one: http://www.autodwg.com/dwg-viewer/
I have used it on one of the computers at school when we were upgrading from AutoCAD 2006 to AutoCAD 2007.

Hope you find what you need,

-nTOS

Couple others:

http://www.edrawingsviewer.com/

oh, here is one that I have just found, from Autodesk so you can trust it:

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index...CMP=ILC-DWG-PUV

I am going to try it soon, if you get to before me tell me how it is.

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Posted 24 November 2006 - 03:15 AM

I tried the Free DWG Viewer powered by Brava. It's good but the freeware version does not let you print.

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#5 Budapest

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Posted 24 November 2006 - 07:29 AM

I just downloaded and installed the Autodesk viewer. It weighs in at a hefty 120MB but it looks good based on my brief trial. The plotting options are vastly improved over Volo.

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