The purpose of this add-in is to make an update to date DWF of the IDW, IAM or IPT each time you save. You have several options of where to save the DWF including

1. the same directory as the file
2. a sub directory of the file location
3. a specified folder (local or network)

This allows you to keep an up to date repository of DWFs of your parts and drawings. This can work with or without Autodesk Vault.

The program can be customized (incremental file names etc..) if you so desire. Contact me for more information.

This will only work on R9 and above as this is the first release with the publish command.

As always donation are gladly accepted. There is a paypal link in the add-in.

This is the beta release of this add-in and hence it may contain some bugs. If you find any problem with it please report back here and let me know. Be sure to check this thread for new updates.

UPDATE: 2-17-06: I have added a 4th save option. This option allows you to save all DWF files into a folder at the root of your current workspace. So if you are working on project A in C:\Project A you can save DWFs to c:\Project A\DWFs. When working on Project B they can be saved in c:\Project B\DWFs.

To upgrade, uninstall the old version with Add/Remove Programs then run the new installer. Make sure IV is closed and there are no stray processes.

As always, donations are accepted and apprecietd... http://tinyurl.com/czolk

OK, 12 downloads and no comments yet? Must be perfect hunh?

IV8 has the publish command too. Or did the command change inbetween the releases?

IV8 can only publish IDWs. R9 can do all 3 file types. Rather than get real complicated I figure to make it easy. If anyone wants this for R8 IDWs I can customize it.

Aahh. It might be nice but with vault you just want to create the dwf once. So you would have to segregate the publish dwf from the vault dwf's. Unless someone else wants it don't bother for little old me.

Currently we don't use DWF's, but if we do I will check this Addin out!

And that symbol in the top left looks quite familiar...(ActiveSync???)

I was resistant to DWFs as well Teun. I suppose I could do the same thing with PDFs but I figured I'd give DWFs a shot. I made this for an internal project but figured I'd release it to the public.



Yeah I think so (call me the Icon bandit )

Sean "The Icon Bandit" Dotson

Not sure I folow Kathy. Could you elaborate?

In vault you publish one DWF. Then you attach it the IDW. Now every time you checkin your IDW a new DWF is published automatically. So to publish a DWF everytime you save is a bit of an overkill especially if you might be overwritting your publish folder that had the check in ones in it.

Yes. This is exactly the reason I wrote this add-in. I found the act of manually attaching of DWFs in the vault to be cumbersome (and people will forget to do it etc....)

This was a replacement for this manual action.

Is it overkill, sure maybe a little but I have yet to see a performance hit when saving IDWs.



So what is it that you'd want to see different about the app?

I know that my work flow would have the dwf published when you checked in a file to vault or when in semi isolated you check in an IDW.

But as I said that unless someone else asks for an IV8 version I am fine with out the add in.

Gotcha. I might be able to swing an R8 (IDW only) version.

Sean just a note:
Into the agreement you left into the unistall section the follow note:

To uninstall iPropWizard V2 navigate to Start>Settings>Control Panel>Add Remove Programs and select iProperties Wizard V2

that was obviously taken from the Ipropwizard.

I'll test your tool and let you know
Alberto

Oops.. yep, thanks