Free Alternative to VoloView for ACAD 2007 DWGs?

Convert to PDF and use Acrobat Reader

:-)

You are joking? I've just reinstalled Acrobat V4 on my machines because V8 is slow, has a terrible search dialog, and continually "phones home".

The new VoloView and the new Acrobat have been hit by the same virus:

Anything-less-than-40MBytes-cannot-be-serious-itis.

Easy to use graphics effects:

Are people routinely handling files with those sizes? What's driving the file size?

3D, architects trying to put all floor plans/site plan/ utilities on the same sheet etc.

I'm doing all that (but the 3d), and don't get anything near that size on smallish buildings.

"Owen Ransen" schreef in bericht news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...

Then they don't know how to use AutoCAD properly !!! They need some drawing discipline and training in XREFS

I've done 3D stuff with all that and my files don't come anywhere near 40MB !!!!

Acrobat 7 is very fast.

Version 6 was slower than version 5

I too uninstalled version 8 and went back to 7.

I actually meant the size and heaviness of the programs themselves. Feature clutter and slow response on even fast machines....

Easy to use graphics effects:

Owen Ransen wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

As a replacement for Acrobat Reader you could try free Foxit Reader at

It is small (only 1.5 M download size) and fast.