Having said that, BricsCAD Shape wins by a landslide. Keep in mind that BricsCAD is a full fledged DWG authoring and editing application, while DWG Trueview is only a viewer, it can’t create, edit or save data. Surprisingly, DWG Trueview came in at almost exactly the same time as BricsCAD. If you want to explore the Autodesk online DWG viewer, give it a shot and leave us your comments.ĮDIT: Based on some comments on Twitter, I went ahead and downloaded Autodesk DWG Trueview, and BricsCAD Shape to find out how long each of these would take to install and display the same. Especially if the DWG file is larger and/or there are more than one of them. ( This time did not include downloading the 270MB installer file from Bricsys.) Since I have the install file for BricsCAD v18.2.04 handy, I think I’ll just install the trial if the same situation ever comes up. Including the time for the installer to run, telling the install we wanted to run this as a trial, and opening the drawing, it took 1 minute and 33 seconds. (This _was_ less time than it took last week, for whatever reason)įor comparison sake, we also started a new timer, and ran the installer for BricsCAD v18.2.04. All but 37 seconds of that was processing time, about which the progress indicator gave little help once again, since it displayed “50%” the entire time. The total time was 2 minutes and 53 seconds.
I signed in and started uploading the same DWG file. We started the timer when the initial web page loaded for the Autodesk online viewer. Surely there was some problem last week slow internet or a sporadic issue with the Autodesk viewer servers perhaps? Today, we decided to repeat the process and time it. This wasn’t a 250MB DWG after all, why would it take close to 4 minutes? As someone who should know the answer to the original inquiry (“How can I view this file?”) – I felt embarrassed to have recommended this online viewer at this point. The progress indicator appeared, instantly went to “50%”, where it stayed until the drawing was finally opened for viewing. The progress indicator in use is not reflective of the actual progress either. We did not time it because, well why would we? I figured it might take 20-30 seconds tops, but it was probably in the neighborhood of 3-4 minutes instead. The person with the drawing did not have an Autodesk account nor did they necessarily need one, so I signed in for them. Pretty simple solution, right? So we googled it, found the link and came to a sign in screen.
Rather than downloading and installing any kind of CAD software, my first thought was let’s use the Autodesk online viewer.
Last week, I was working with a group of people who are not CAD users.
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