Installation of Design Review 2010 requires local machine administrator privileges.
If, when uninstalling Design Review, the Cancel button is clicked, the uninstall will terminate but may cause Design Review to function improperly. Solution: From the Windows Add or Remove Programs control panel, click Autodesk Design Review in the list to select it. Click Change/Remove to open the Autodesk Design Review Installation Wizard. Click Repair or Reinstall. Choose the Reinstall option and click Next. Follow the prompts to reinstall Design Review.
When AutoCAD is installed after Design Review, some system files are overwritten by the AutoCAD installation causing DWF shell extensions to fail. Solution: Uninstall and reinstall Design Review to restore the DWF shell extensions.
Find (from the Find palette or the Home tab > Search panel) may fail to return any results if the DWF file was created using the DWF Writer. For the best DWF publishing results, use a program's built-in publishing capabilities rather than DWF Writer.
Dragging and dropping some raster images in the Thumbnails or List View palettes or on the canvas may cause Design Review to stop responding. Solution: Convert the image to a different file type.
By design, Named Views in 3D DWG files are not published to DWF files.
Some PDF files cannot be saved as DWF files when the dpi resolution is set to 720. Solution: Change the dpi resolution to 600 or lower to save the PDF file as a DWF file.
When an open DWF file is emailed from Design Review by clicking the application button > Send Email, and sent using a POP3 email account, the DWF file name in the received email may contain the sender's temp file path concatenated with the file name.
Platform (Windows Vista, Windows XP)
On Windows Vista systems, when the Windows Vista theme (Aero) is enabled, changing the workspace layout while viewing a 3D model may cause the canvas to be redrawn and may result in the 3D model not being displayed properly. Solution: Right-click the Windows desktop and choose Personalize. In the Personalization dialog box, click Theme. From the Theme drop-down list choose Windows Classic and click OK.
On Windows Vista systems, markup containing non-English text that is exported by clicking the application menu > Save As > Save Markups Summary may not display correctly in the resulting CSV file.
If Design Review was used by a person with a Standard or Restricted user account, when a person with an Administrator user account uninstalls Design Review, two files (ActiveConfig.xml and woof_toolformats.xml) may not be uninstalled automatically. Solution: For Windows XP, manually delete the two files from the C:\Documents and Settings\[user name]\Application Data\Autodesk\Autodesk Design Review\10.0\userdata folder. For Windows Vista, manually delete the two files from the C:\Users\[user name]\AppData\Roaming\Autodesk\Autodesk Design Review\10.0\userdata folder.
To save a file with a non-English file name, click the application button > Save As > Save as DWFx/DWF, then right-click the Language Bar and start the Microsoft Global Input Method Editor (IME). Type the desired file name in the Save As dialog box and press Enter, after typing the file name, to exit the IME. Click the Save button or press Enter again to save the file.
Opening DWG files in Design Review on 64-bit operating systems is not supported.
Embedded
When Design Review is embedded in multiple tabs in one instance of Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, the ribbon UI will only be displayed in the first embedded instance. Solution: In the tabs that do not display the ribbon, access controls by right-clicking the canvas or drawing.
When viewing DWF files embedded in Microsoft Office 2007 programs, a Customer Error Report (CER) dialog may not be displayed if the embedded viewer closes unexpectedly.
When saving a Microsoft Word 2003 or 2007 file after modifying an embedded DWF file, Design Review prompts you to save the changes to the DWF file. When saving the Word file again, after subsequent modification to the embedded DWF file, you will not be prompted by Design Review to save the DWF file.
Design Review cannot be embedded in Microsoft Word 2007 by choosing Insert tab > Text panel > Object drop-down > Object > Create New. In Word, click the Create from File tab and select a file to embed.
DWF files embedded in Microsoft Word or PowerPoint 2003 files, when inactive, may be represented by a large generic DWF icon, rather than a thumbnail image of the DWF file content.
Dragging and dropping a sheet from the Thumbnails or List View palette in Design Review into a PowerPoint slide causes an error to be displayed. Solution: In PowerPoint, click Insert tab > Text panel > Object. In the Insert Object dialog box, click Create New and, from the Object Type list, select Autodesk DWF Document. Click OK. Drag and Drop a DWF sheet or file into the control to embed it.
When embedding a DWF file in Microsoft Word or PowerPoint 2007 using the Create from File method, clicking the Link to File option in Word, or the Link option in PowerPoint, may cause the insertion to fail.
Dragging and dropping a sheet from the Thumbnails or List View palette in Design Review into Internet Explorer 7 may cause the Temporary Files (C:\Windows\Temp) folder to open.
Display
If your computer is experiencing display issues as you view 3D DWF files, update your computer with the latest video card drivers. If you continue to experience display issues, click the application button > Options and, on the Model tab, under View Settings, select a different setting from the Driver drop-down list.
Textures or surface bitmaps may not display properly in some 3D DWF files.
Depending on the settings used when publishing a 3D DWF file, clicking Home tab > View panel > Shading drop-down > Shaded with Edges may not display all object edges distinctly. Solution: Click the application button > Options. On the Model tab, under Color Settings clear the As Published option, and set a new Model Edge Color.
Large DWF files published from Autodesk® Civil 3D® or Autodesk® Map 3D may contain dots that obscure geometry on the canvas.
Cross sectioned models, with Caps enabled, may not be displayed correctly when the view is set perpendicular to the section plane.
Merging multiple DWF files by dragging and dropping into the Thumbnails or List View palette may result in the sheets being listed in no apparent order.
On the PDF Conversion tab of the Options dialog box, if the Convert PDF Files to Black & White Files When Saving is checked and the resolution is set below 300, DWF sheets created from PDF files may appear distorted. Solution: From the Home tab > View panel (expanded) > Color Depth drop-down, choose Black and White.
On 2D sheets that have been rotated, some fill patterns, which align to the screen, will not be rotated.
When using the default workspace layout, clicking an object within the unpinned Grid Data palette causes the Object Properties palette to temporarily display over the Grid Data palette. Solution: Dock one the palettes at the bottom or to the left of the canvas so both can be viewed at the same time.
Viewing high resolution (large dpi value) PDF files may cause Design Review respond slowly when modifying the view.
When opening some 3D DWG files in Design Review, meshes representing light sources may be displayed. Solution: Request the designer manually disable Light Glyphs and publish the DWG as a DWF file.
DWFx
When opening DWFx files saved in Design Review, the Microsoft XPS Viewer only shows 2D content. Non-2D content, such as 3D models or BOM tables, is indicated in the DWFx file by a single DWFx logo proxy page. Solution: To view the entire contents, open the DWFx file in Design Review.
When viewed in the Microsoft XPS Viewer, the object properties stored in DWFx files are not shown. Although not shown, the object properties remain available in the DWFx file when viewed in Design Review.
Printing and Batch Printing
Transparent markup, or freehand or area highlight markups, on 2D sheets may not print as expected.
Printing or plotting of large files may cause Design Review to close unexpectedly.
Printing or plotting of some PDF files may fail if the selected paper size is A2 or larger. Solution: Select a smaller paper size, such as A4, and reprint the file.
Right-clicking a file in Windows Explorer and choosing Print may fail to print the file if Autodesk DWF Viewer was installed after Design Review. Solution: Manually change the file association. Right-click any DWF file and choose Properties. In the file Properties dialog box, on the General tab, click the Change button to display the Open With dialog box. From the list of Recommended Programs, choose Autodesk Design Review. Or, if necessary, click Browse to navigate to and select DesignReview.exe on your system. Click OK to set the file association. Click OK again to accept the change and close the file Properties dialog box.
Printing D Size Sheets with Microsoft XPS Document Writer as the selected printer fails when the Advanced option, Turn data into a bitmap before printing, is checked.
In the Batch Print Wizard, when selecting a password-protected DWF file, you are prompted for the file's password three times during the batch printing process.
Some fill patterns, without transparency, may cause parts of the filled areas to be obscured by bars when printed.
Printing of fill patterns fails on some printers.
Measure and Markup
For DWF files with markup created in earlier versions Design Review, saving a summary of the markups exports markup information from the first sheet in the file only.
Using a drawing tablet or a tablet PC to create freehand markup may not produce smooth lines or text.
Georeferenced maps published with non-Cartesian coordinate systems cannot be measured.
In multi-sheet DWF files with marked-up 3D models, clicking a 3D markup in the Markups palette displays the model with the markup selected and the Orbit tool enabled rather than the Select tool. Solution: On the Canvas toolbar, click the Select tool to interact with the selected 3D markup callout.
Asian language text markup created using the Microsoft Global Input Method Editor (IME) may be displayed differently than expected after exiting the text box edit mode.
In 2D DWF files that contain more than one viewport, measurements created within one viewport may be inconsistent with measurements created in another viewport.
When a large font size is used in a 3D markup callout, text may overlap where the text wraps.
Version Compare
Multiple sheets cannot be compared at the same time.
When comparing DWF file content to DWFx file content, the comparison results may contain false differences.