Autodesk Freewheel: DWF viewing online
 

Hi folks,

Considering how many great DWFs we've seen over this past season and others, I wanted to mention a new tool Autodesk has created, called Freewheel (http://freewheel.autodesk.com/). It effectively allows you to show a DWF, within a web page, without the DWF client.

Give it a try; if you have a DWF file hosted on a website, add the full path to the end of this link:
http://freewheel.autodesk.com/dwf.aspx?path=<your http address>

For instance:
http://freewheel.autodesk.com/dwf.aspx?path=http://freewheel.autodesk.com/sample/CompositeSuspension.dwf

Great work on your robots this year,
Pete

Re: Autodesk Freewheel: DWF viewing online
 

How incredibly cool! I can't wait to see how this will feature on team websites (and elsewhere). So is the race on to see what team can embed it first?

I was dubious when I ran the suspension demo, thinking to myself "oh boy is this gonna choke when it hits a full-detail AIA robot dwf!", but whatdayaknow? It handles them just fine! I predict a place in the web hall of fame (engineering geek tools category) for Freewheel.

Re: Autodesk Freewheel: DWF viewing online
 

Awsome!... I can't decribe how cool I think this is and how well it will work on my portfolio site.

Thanks autodesk!

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Yeah, I have to say that it's pretty sweet!

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Now how could we use this on CD? :D

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Well I uploaded this to my website to test it out.

http://www.printo3d.com/autodeskfreewheel.html

Now, if it could only open .stl files.:D

Re: Autodesk Freewheel: DWF viewing online
 

Here's a page with everyone's DWFs in a thumbnail. Clicking on one will launch a new window with a bigger viewing area.

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Hey, all the wires that were on our gripper are gone! What happened?!

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Hmmm... It looks like the tubes to the gripper cylinders appear when zoomed out, but part of them disappears when you zoom in. Must be an undocumented feature in Freewheel. :ahh:

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I am not surprised.

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Folks,
Here's an updated set of links for both the Freewheel site, and the Zip file containing all of the 2007 DWF entries.
http://freewheel.labs.autodesk.com/

-Pete

Re: Autodesk Freewheel: DWF viewing online
 

Wow, this is incredible! I am definitely getting our web designer to embed.