File format solves CAD exchange problems. Apparently many of those respondents are not familiar with or have not had a chance to use Autodesk's DWF format for sharing CAD data. That is surprising, ...

McDwiff utilizes Freewheel as a backend to process the DWF files, with an appropriate front-end app on your Mac or iPad to obtain files (locally, on a website or in Dropbox) for processing.

Autodesk already offers DWF Viewer, a free application that allows builders, designers and other nondrafters to read DWF files.

They can also easily share drawings, maps and models within Microsoft Office applications by simply dragging and dropping the DWF file into the application window, and preview, search, print, and ...

Autodesk Design Review is intuitive software that lets users mark up and measure DWF design files, without the original CAD program.