When you are in the final stages of a design, you can publish drawings for review, and receive corrections and comments electronically. You can implement and respond to the comments and republish your drawings.
To submit designs for review, publish a Design Web Format (DWF) file of your 2D drawing. Send it to your client or whoever you want to review your designs. The reviewer can open the DWF file in Autodesk Design Review, mark up the file, and then send it back to you. When you open the marked-up DWF file of the 2D drawing in Autodesk Inventor, view the markups in the browser area. You can turn them off, make your changes, change the status of the markups, and republish the DWF file to send out for another review.
Insert Markups
You use Autodesk Design Review to insert markups into a DWF file. A markup is a single comment or a redline geometry correction inserted into a DWF file of a 2D drawing.
Using Autodesk Design Review, you can add markups electronically, just as you mark up a paper version of the drawing. In addition to the redline geometry you add to the DWF file, you can also assign a status to the markup and add comments. The markups and their statuses are saved in the DWF file. For more information about creating markups in Autodesk Design Review, see the Autodesk Design Review Help documentation.
To view markups in Autodesk Inventor, open a DWF file containing markups. The set of markups appears in the Markups browser.
A markup set is a group of markups contained within a single DWF file. When you load a markup set into the Markups browser, the tree view displays each marked-up drawing sheet and its associated markups. In the Markups browser, select individual markups. You can view their status and other details, such as the creator of the markup, the date and time that you created it, and any comments associated with the markup.
Other types of markups created in Autodesk Design Review that can appear in the DWF file are text blocks, redline geometry, dimensions, and stamps. Only comments have a status and are shown in the Markups browser.
With Autodesk Design Review, you can modify DWF files in the following ways:
Republish a markup set
Once you have reviewed markups, you can change their status and add comments that are saved with the markup.
In the Markups browser, you can right-click a markup to change the markup status and display the Markups Properties dialog box.
The default status for new markups is <None>. You can change the status of a markup to Question, For Review, or Closed.
The program saves changes in markup status and added comments automatically in the DWF file and includes them when you republish it. You can also save markup changes by right-clicking the markup set node, and clicking Save Markup History Changes.
After you view a markup set and change your drawings, you can republish the markup set for another review.
When you republish the markup set, the markups and any changes that were made to them are saved in the DWF file. When anyone reviews the republished DWF file in Autodesk Design Review, the changes made to the drawings are visible. Any changes made to the status and the details of the markups display.
If you republish a DWF file that has deleted or rearranged sheets, the new order of sheets is reflected in the republished DWF file. If you added any sheets to the DWF file in Autodesk Design Review, those sheets are not included in the republished DWF file.