IDESS Ltd - Intelligent Design Solutions

IDESS Ltd electronic design review data (3D CAD models and 2D CAD drawings) are distributed in Autodesk DWF file format. Technical product manuals, assembly instructions, drawings and documentation are provided electronically in Adobe Acrobat PDF and Autodesk DWF file format.

If you require either of the freeware viewers to enable the viewing and printing of these file formats they can be downloaded directly from Adobe and Autodesk's website's. See the Plugins section of the Gallery & Downloads page for links and more information, or follow the links below.

In addition to these file formats we occasionally, by request, provide CAD data in native Autodesk Inventor® Professional 11 format and AutoCAD® .dwg format. We can also open/import IGES, SAT, STEP, STL and Pro/ENGINEER 3D CAD files/data.

Autodesk Design Review

Enables two-way design review of DWF and AutoCAD DWG files, click on the Autodesk Design Review 2008 (40mb free download - registration required).

Autodesk Inventor View 11

For the free viewer to enable viewing and printing of native Autodesk Inventor parts, assemblies and drawings – click on the Autodesk Inventor image (83mb).

Autodesk DWG Trueview

With DWG TrueView 2007 you can view and print AutoCAD .DWG™ and .DXF™ files and then publish them as DWF™ files – (116mb download - registration required).

Autodesk DWF Tips and Tricks

Download a 12 page pdf booklet with useful information on getting the most from DWF.

Adobe Reader 8

If you require the free viewer to enable viewing and printing of .pdf files – click on the Adobe Reader image (20.3mb download - registration optional).

DWG gateway - Solidworks Corporation's free data translation plug-in for AutoCAD® users - enables users to open, edit and create PDF files from DWG files created with any version of AutoCAD software – click on the DWG gateway image (7.75mb download).