CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
27 October 2004
Product News
Bluebeam Software and Autodesk to Provide Enhanced File Sharing Solutions for AutoCAD Customers
Autodesk® is working with Bluebeam Software to provide additional file sharing options to designers and engineers that use AutoCAD® software. Together, the companies will develop solutions that enable AutoCAD users to more easily convert complicated, large-format AutoCAD drawings into lightweight Autodesk® DWFT (Design Web FormatT) digital files that can be easily e-mailed to clients, vendors and reprographers.
Bluebeam will be enhancing its current solution, Bluebeam Pushbutton Plus, so that Bluebeam Pushbutton Plus users have the option to convert any file to the DWF file format. DWF is a published format developed by Autodesk for sharing 2D and 3D design and engineering data. Small and secure, DWF files are fast to transmit. They are view, Web and print-ready, so that anyone can access complex design data without the originating design application.
According to Tony Peach, director of product marketing for Autodesk Collaboration Services, "By working with Bluebeam, Autodesk customers will have access to new DWF solutions, which were created specifically for the CAD industry, making it easier for architects and engineers to create, manage and share their AutoCAD drawings with clients, contractors, coworkers and reprographers."
"Bluebeam's Pushbutton Plus solution currently gives users the ability to convert their drawings and documents to seven different formats-it makes sense for us to also include the DWF format," says Richard Lee, President and CEO of Bluebeam Software. Bluebeam's partnership with Autodesk allows our company to provide users with solutions to further accelerate the design and production processes. In addition to allowing users to output to the DWF format, Bluebeam will also be working with AutoCAD to create specialized technology that will enable AutoCAD users to convert large quantities of digital drawings to the DWF format in a single batch. This new tool will save AutoCAD users considerable time and energy converting large sets of CAD drawings to DWF.
Bluebeam plans to launch a product that includes DWF capability in the first quarter of 2005.
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