Publish to a Georeferenced DWF

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Publish to a Georeferenced DWF

DWF (Design Web Format™) is an open, secure file format developed by Autodesk for sharing engineering design data.

When you publish to DWF, you create an electronic version of the map that can be displayed using Autodesk® Design Review, which you can download from the Autodesk Website. The DWF format can include attribute data and graphical elements, including any draped raster files. All layers and styles are published, with no loss of information.

Open or create a map file		Open or create a new drawing using a map template
Assign a coordinate system		The DWF publish operation converts the map to latitude/longitude coordinates, for use by GPS devices
Connect to feature sources		Add features to the map as display layers and create a version, if the organization requires it
Style the feature layers		Specify how each feature layer appears in the display map
Optionally, add raster images		Add raster images to give visual context to the map
Specify attribute data to include		You can include object data, classification data, feature source data, joined data, linked records, and data table information
Publish to DWF		Use Publish to create a georeferenced DWF file. Plotting to DWF will not work.

As long as you have assigned a coordinate system to all the maps in your DWF file, the publishing operation will automatically convert the coordinate information to latitude/longitude coordinates. GPS devices that use the NMEA 0183 protocol and the Autodesk DWF Viewer can use the georeferencing information, for example, to pan and center maps dynamically.