Hugo Posted March 22, 2007 Share Posted March 22, 2007 Has anyone a good recommendation for a good DWG viewer? I am tired of importing, choosing units, etc. just to view a file. A slow procedure. There is a simpler viewer called "eDrawings" but it crashes constantly. Has anyone here discovered a better alternative? Thank you! Quote Link to comment
Tom4 Posted March 22, 2007 Share Posted March 22, 2007 Hugo, I used to use volo view for a dwg viewer and that worked fine but autocad now only has the desktop viewer and I have not checked to see if that can view DWGs or not and I did not want to download just to look at it. Tom Quote Link to comment
Jonathan Pickup Posted March 22, 2007 Share Posted March 22, 2007 my eDrawings does not crash, do you need to update it? Quote Link to comment
G_Hannigan Posted March 22, 2007 Share Posted March 22, 2007 Hugo, I used to use volo view for a dwg viewer and that worked fine but autocad now only has the desktop viewer and I have not checked to see if that can view DWGs or not and I did not want to download just to look at it. Tom Autocad's free viewer is Windows only. Quote Link to comment
Grant M Posted March 23, 2007 Share Posted March 23, 2007 eDrawings is totally reliable for me too and is the best viewer i've used Quote Link to comment
Hugo Posted March 23, 2007 Author Share Posted March 23, 2007 Weird thing! eDrawings used to work perfectly but now it is crashing in every machine here at the office, a mix of MacBooks, iMacs and Mac minis. Quote Link to comment
rkraybill Posted March 26, 2007 Share Posted March 26, 2007 We use AutoDesk TrueView, running Windows XP in Parallels Desktop. It has proved to be a reliable tool for viewing incoming AutoCAD files and checking outgoing AutoCAD exports. It is Windows only, but is available for Mac users with the expenditure of several hundred dollars and a little bit of time. It was worth it to us. iMac 20" Intel Core Duo VW 12.5 Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted March 26, 2007 Share Posted March 26, 2007 Hugo - Try running disk utility or contacting eDrawings directly. Quote Link to comment
Hugo Posted March 27, 2007 Author Share Posted March 27, 2007 Katie, tahnk you. I already contacted them and they suggested checking an option in the Preferences called "Use Software Open GL". It has worked for many files, but huge DWG files still crash or behave very slow. Anyway, the situation is better. But fot bigger files, the only option I have is to import them into VW. Quote Link to comment
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