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April 12, 2007

It's two, two, two Freewheels from one... (one company that is)

Now that Freewheel has launched as a free DWF-based service, many of you are wondering what will happen to the Freewheel on Autodesk Labs. Fear not - it will be around. Autodesk is offering both Freewheels to our customers.

Item
Name Project Freewheel® Autodesk® Freewheel®
URL freewheel.labs.autodesk.com freewheel.autodesk.com
Version 1.0.7.54 1.0.0.22
Strategy exposure of viewing and other technologies that may or may not eventually be incorporated into Autodesk® Freewheel® reliable DWF-based viewing without the need to install additional software
Monitoring monitored by the Autodesk Labs team monitored 24/7 by the same Autodesk IT Operations team that maintains the Buzzsaw/Streamline servers
Emphasis exploration of sharing design data over the web to a variety of platforms software as a service - in this case, a free service
Features

Upload via ShareNow,
File Open (DWF, DWFx), Email, Print,
consolidated login,
My Designs, My Sessions,
Zoom (In, Out, Fit), Pan, Full Screen/Restore,
3D Orbit (improved feedback cube),
Navigation Wheels (3D and 2D),
Collaboration (Share, Join, Markup List)
Markup (Sketch, Highlight, Callout),
Customize UI (mode, CSS, UI, TOOL)
Project Draw integration

File Open (DWF), Email, Print,
Zoom (In, Out, Fit), Pan, 3D Orbit
Support

Autodesk Labs
Project Freewheel®
email address
Labs.Freewheel@autodesk.com

or

Freewheel®
discussion group
http://discussion.autodesk.com/
forum.jspa?forumID=251

or
news://discussion.autodesk.com/
autodesk.freewheel

Freewheel®
discussion group
http://discussion.autodesk.com/
forum.jspa?forumID=251

or
news://discussion.autodesk.com/
autodesk.freewheel
Blog It's Alive in the Lab
http://labs.blogs.com
Scott Sheppard
Beyond the Paper
http://dwf.blogs.com
Volker Joseph

Both Autodesk® Freewheel® and Project Freewheel® have their place in the DWF viewing world. As more experimental concepts are added to Project Freewheel as this technology evolves, Project Freewheel will be very much alive in the lab.

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