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firstlook Design Review 2009 provides tools for you to view, mark up and measure, print, and republish DWF files to share with others or to return to the publisher of the original DWF for revision. Any changes you make to the Design Review window are preserved and available the next time you start the program. This release of Design Review also can display flexible components in a DWF file. A flexible component is an object published by Inventor that illustrates a connection between other objects. Autodesk Design Review 2009 can now share DWF files on the Autodesk Project Freewheel Web site, so DWF files can be reviewed without requiring customers to install software. The recommended system requirements for Autodesk Design Review 2009 are a PC with an 800-MHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor (faster processor recommended) with at least 512 MB of RAM (1 GB of RAM or more for Windows Vista users). Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4, XP Professional or Home Edition (Service Pack 2 recommended), or Vista is required, as is Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 (Service Pack 2 recommended) or later. Additional requirements for Autodesk Design Review 2009 are a VGA display system capable of at least 1,024 x 768 resolution; 150 MB of hard disk space for installation; a mouse, trackball, or compatible pointing device; and a CD-ROM drive or DVD-ROM drive for 64-bit systems. Optional hardware includes a 3Dconnexion SpaceTraveler with April 2008 cadalyst www.cadalyst.com In an age when free products often are worth what one pays for them, Autodesk Design Review 2009 stands out as a capable and well-designed, indeed brilliant, exception. support for 2D and 3D navigation, a GPS device set to communicate using NMEA 0183 standards, the standard 4800-baud rate, and a COM port (Com1 to Com10). An optional GPS system can be a GPS bundled with Microsoft Streets and Trips 2006, a Panasonic Toughbook with integrated GPS device, a USB-connected GPS device, or a Bluetoothconnected GPS device set to use a COM port. The final English version of Autodesk Design Review 2009 is expected to be available for download in late March 2008 and will thereafter be included with new releases of major Autodesk products. Autodesk has put a major amount of work into Autodesk Design Review 2009, making it an even more flexible design tool for use with the Autodesk family of products. In an age when free products often are worth what one pays for them, Autodesk Design Review 2009 stands out as a capable and welldesigned, indeed brilliant, exception. For additional information about Autodesk Design Review 2009, visit the company’s Web site at www. autodesk.com/designreview. You can also download the new version of the software free of charge at the Web site. Highly Recommended. Ron LaFon, a contributing editor for Cadalyst, is a writer, editor, and a computer graphics and electronic publishing specialist from Atlanta, Georgia. He is a principal at 3Bear Productions in Atlanta. 33 http://www.cvis.com/ http://www.autodesk.com/designreview http://www.autodesk.com/designreview http://www.cvis.com/go/c67 http://www.cadalyst.com

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Cadalyst - April 2008 Contents Editor's Window Cad Central The Summer of BIM Thin Is In — Large LCD Monitors Caligari trueSpace 7.5 — 3D Modeling Software HP Compaq 8710w — Mobile Workstation Autodesk Design Review 2009 — Design Viewing and Collaboration Software Getting Better — What Should You Learn? Technical Uses for Nontechnical Software AEC on Macs Cad Cartoon Issue Indexes Tips Rain Down on Harry

Cadalyst - April 2008

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