Project Freewheel

Project Freewheel allows you to view and collaborate with design data without installing additional software. All you need is a browser. Project Freewheel is both a Web site where you can type in a URL to your own design data for interactive viewing, and a Web service that allows you to embed an interactive viewer of your own design data in your own HTML pages. Today it provides technology to view your DWF™ files on a Macintosh® computer, a PDA, a Cell Phone, on a Windows® or Linux® platform, or in Microsoft® Internet Explorer®, or Firefox® browsers. Project Freewheel also provides technology to embed your own DWF file in your company's own web page (HTML) that visitors can view without installing additional software.

What's New

With this update to Project Freewheel you can:

• Publish your 3D and 2D designs from AutoCAD 2008, Inventor 2008, or Revit 2008 using the "Share Now" utility.
• Share your 3D and 2D designs in real time collaboration sessions. Participants can pan, zoom, orbit, etc. and everyone sees the same picture. Participants can make comments using sketch and callout markup tools. Participants can chat so notes are stored with the sharing session.
• Manage your 3D and 2D designs and sharing sessions using the "My Designs" and "My Sessions" capabilities.
• Navigate your designs using the "3D View Navigation Wheel" and "2D Navigation Wheel."  or improved orbit cube
• Customize the Project Freewheel user interface as part of embedding your designs in your own web pages.
• Integrate your designs into Project Draw.
• Experience the performance improvements included in this Project Freewheel update.

Try it - you'll like it.

Visit the Documentation area to learn more about using Project Freewheel for your own designs.This includes:

• Interactive Software Free Viewer - Allow users to pan, zoom, orbit, etc. with your designs.
• Rendering Service - Include images, e.g. thumbnails, of your designs on your own company website. The images update dynamically when the designs are updated.
• Web Service - Build solutions around the data captured in your designs.

Freewheel frees you and your users from the need to install additional software to view and collaborate using design data.

Try It

URL: http://freewheel.labs.autodesk.com

Updated: August 26, 2008   // more

YouTube Video

• Render This Link

Feedback

• labs.freewheel@autodesk.com
• Autodesk Freewheel
• It's Alive in the Lab

FAQ

• How does Freewheel work?
• Can we host Freewheel ourselves?
• Can any Autodesk employee look at my designs uploaded to Freewheel?
• Does Project Freewheel support classic DWF files as well as the new DWFx format?
• How does Freewheel compare to Autodesk Design Review?
• How does Project Freewheel collaboration compare to Buzzsaw?
• What's the difference between Project Freewheel and Autodesk Freewheel?

Supported Browsers

• Firefox 2.0 or higher
• IE 6 or higher

Since Project Freewheel is entirely web-based, if you can access the internet through one of the listed browsers you can use Project Freewheel. It's that simple.