INSTRUCTIONS
WHIP! works in Microsoft Internet Explorer. This section describes how to use WHIP! to view DWF files, describes available WHIP! commands, how to print using WHIP!.
Using WHIP! with Microsoft Internet Explorer
View a Drawing Web Format (DWF) file with WHIP! and Microsoft Internet Explorer:
Launch Microsoft Internet Explorer, then from the File menu, choose Open. Load a DWF file or an HTML file that has an embedded DWF file reference. Note that if you have selected Browse in the Open dialog, you must must choose All Files from the Files of Type list to see available DWF files.
Double-click an HTML or DWF file. Microsoft Internet Explorer launches and displays the file. Note that the first time you do this, you may need to instruct the operating system that you wish to associate the .dwf file extension with the Microsoft Internet Explorer. If this is the case, a dialog appears prompting you to do so.
- For Best Viewing Results: (Use Internet Explorer 6.0 or later, Set your Resolution to 1024x768 or greater, and Use a 17" Monitor or larger.
From your browser in the WHIP! window click the right mouse button to view a menu of WHIP! commands. The WHIP! right click menu enables you to select from various modes of operation. This section describes the right click menu commands available for WHIP!
PAN
By default WHIP! is in Pan mode and the mouse pointer is a hand icon. To pan, press and hold the left mouse button and drag. The hand grabs the screen as you pan the DWF. Alternatively, you can use the arrow keys as keyboard shortcuts for pan.ZOOM
If you choose Zoom, the pointer changes to a magnifying glass. To zoom, press and hold the left mouse button and drag up and down in the window to zoom in and out, respectively. Alternatively, you can use the Pg Up and Pg Dn keys as keyboard shortcuts for zooming in and out.ZOOM RECTANGLE
If you right click and choose Zoom Rectangle, the pointer changes to a cross. To Zoom Rectangle, press and hold the left mouse button, then drag a rectangle over the area you want to zoom. When you release the button, the view zooms to the selected area. You must zoom to an area of at least 5 pixels.FIT TO WINDOW
If you right click and choose Fit to Window, the view is zoomed in or out so that the drawing fills the available WHIP! window. Alternatively, you can use the Home key as a keyboard shortcut for Fit to Window.LAYERS
Using WHIP!, if you right click and choose Layers, the Layers dialog opens from which you can turn layers on and off. The Layers dialog works like most Explorer dialog boxes in that you can select one or more layers and click the light bulb icon to turn on or off all of the selected layers. Layers are toggled based on the state of the light bulb icon when you click it. Pressing the space bar is the same as clicking the light bulb icon.
From within the Layers dialog, right click to access the Layers submenu. Layers submenu commands are On, Off, Toggle, Select All, and Clear All.NAMED VIEWS
Some DWG files have named views for use with AutoCAD. When a DWF is generated from such a DWG file, the named views are maintained within the DWF. As a result, when viewing a DWF file you can right click and choose Named Views to open the Named Views dialog. From the Named Views dialog you can select in the DWF file a named view previously defined in the source DWG. To position your browser to a view, double-click the named view, or select a named view and then click OK to select that view and dismiss the dialog. The right click menu Named Views command is available only when a DWF file contains at least one named view.LOCATION
If you right click and choose Location, the Current Location dialog opens displaying the current location of the mouse with respect to the DWF file. The coordinates displayed in the dialog reflect the original DWG file coordinates, not the coordinates of the DWF file.FULL VIEW
When you right click and choose Full View, the browser navigates to an URL that contains only the DWF file. The DWF fills the available browser window. To undo this operation, use the browser's Back button or Go menu Back command.HIGHLIGHT URLs
Right click, then check or clear the Highlight URLs menu command. If the command is checked, WHIP! identifies all of the URLs in the DWF by highlighting each URL region. This enables you to see where URLs are before navigating. To avoid matching the color of the background or geometry in the DWF file, the highlighting is drawn in alternating light-gray/dark-gray/clear colors. Rendering in the clear color provides an instance where you can see the geometry underneath the URL text box.
If the command is not checked, URLs are not highlighted.
As a shortcut for the right click menu command, hold down the shift key. Release the Shift key to turn off Highlight URLs.
The right click menu Highlight URLs command is available only when a DWF file contains at least one URL.COPY
To copy the current view of the DWF file, choose Copy from the right-click menu, or press CTRL+C. The current view is copied as an Enhanced Windows Metafile (EMF) and placed in the Windows Clipboard. You can paste the Clipboard contents into any EMF compliant application by choosing that application's Paste command, or in most cases by pressing CTRL+V. Note that images copied and pasted from WHIP! into other applications may lose some precision since EMF format files do not have the same amount of detail as DWF files.
Note that the Copy command shortcut (CTRL+C) does not work in Netscape Navigator. Netscape Navigator users must use the right-click menu Copy command to copy the current WHIP! view.
To print a DWF, right click and choose Print. The view that is currently visible in the WHIP! window is printed using the standard system print controls. Using the right click menu Print command prints only the DWF file. Otherwise, to print the entire HTML page including the current view of the DWF in the WHIP! window, use the browser's Print button or File menu Print command. If you print using the browser Print command, the Print dialog appears from which you have the option to force the background color of the DWF to white and the color of the geometry to black. (These settings are on by default.) For more information on printing, see Printing DWF Files.SAVE AS
To save the DWF to your local drive, right click and choose Save As. You can choose to save the DWF file in three formats: DWF, DWG, or Windows Bitmap (BMP).
If you select to save the file as a DWG, WHIP! copies the DWG file used to generate the DWF, provided that the DWG file is available. When looking for a DWG file, WHIP! looks in the directory where the DWF file is stored. Note that the DWF file and DWG file must reside in the same directory for drag and drop to work.
If you do not want to publish the DWG file, but want to publish only the DWF, do not place the DWG file in the DWF directory. In this case, when you attempt to save as DWG, an error message is generated that indicates that the DWG file is not available and the Save As fails.
The right click menu Save As command is available once the streaming of the DWF file completes.ABOUT WHIP!
When you right click and choose About WHIP!..., the About WHIP! dialog opens. The About WHIP! dialog displays information about WHIP! and the current DWF. Regarding WHIP!, the version number is useful when reporting problems towhip.support@autodesk.com.
Regarding the DWF, you can view information on the following attributes (assuming they were supplied when the file was created): data version (revision of DWF), description, author, creator, copyright, keywords, source filename, creation time, modification time, source creation time, source modification time, current view left, current view right, current view bottom, and current view top.
The coordinates depicted in the current view are useful when used with view="left+right+bottom+top" targets.FORWARD
Forward is equivalent to the browser Forward button. The right click menu Forward command is useful when working with frames. Use it so that the browser only advances forward for the frame containing the DWF file.BACK
Back is equivalent to the browser Back button. The WHIP! Back menu item is useful when working with frames. Use it so that the browser only advances backward for the frame containing the DWF file.In WHIP!, if the pointer is positioned over a hyperlink (an URL), the pointer changes to a pointing hand icon and the browser Status bar displays the address (URL) of the hyperlink. To navigate to an URL, click the link. Your browser displays the linked page.
If the object or area under the pointer contains more than one URL, the Status bar displays the message Multiple URLs. To display a list of URLs attached to the current object or area, click once. A list is displayed from which you can choose an URL.
Note that URL descriptions displayed depend on how the URLs are attached to the DWF. In general, URLs are displayed as raw URLs, for example http://www.autodesk.com. However, in some cases an URL may contain a descriptive name, for example The Autodesk Home Page. If a descriptive name was attached with the URL when the URL was added to the DWF, the descriptive name is displayed in the list of multiple URLs rather than the raw URL.
Using an IntelliMouse with WHIP!
Releases 3 and 4 of WHIP! support the Microsoft IntelliMouse. The left and right mouse buttons function the same as on a regular mouse. The additional IntelliMouse Wheel and Wheel Button functions are supported consistent with existing WHIP! behavior:
Rolling the Wheel is equivalent to a Zoom command. Rolling forward zooms in and rolling backward zooms out. Note that when zooming with the wheel, WHIP! uses the cursor position as an anchor point for the zoom. As a result, if you don't move the cursor, rolling the mouse forward and then rolling the mouse backward are not reciprocal actions.
Holding the Wheel down, referred to as the Wheel Button, switches WHIP! to Pan mode. The IntelliMouse's navigation indicator enables the user to pan in any direction simply by changing the direction of the indicator.
WHIP! cannot support IntelliMouse for the Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01 or later; the Internet Explorer "owns" the wheel and does not pass mouse messages to WHIP!. Thus, when a DWF file is embedded in an HTML page, the IntelliMouse wheel functions to scroll the page. When a DWF file is loaded directly, for example by double-clicking on a DWF file, the mouse messages still are not passed from the browser to WHIP!, even though there is no HTML page to scroll.
As defined in the Commands section, there are two ways to print:
Printing from the WHIP! right mouse button menu
This method prints only the current view of the DWF file. The print fills the available printing area as defined by your system printer settings.Printing from the browser's Print button
This method prints the entire HTML page with the current view of the DWF file occupying WHIP!. The HTML page prints according to your system printer settings.- If you want to Print any document (i.e. Cad Drawing, Data, etc.)?
To remove the IE Browser Std. Header & Footer go to File>Page Setup>Headers and Footers> You will see Header: &w&bPage &p of &P Footer: &u&b&d Highlight & Delete the following to remove the Header and Footer.With regard to HP printers, printing DWF files using raster graphics (instead of vector graphics) produces higher fidelity results. The default for HP printers is to use vector graphics. From the Windows Start menu, choose Settings, choose Printers, then modify your printer's properties to use raster graphics instead of vector graphics. Printing takes slightly longer, but the resulting DWF images look much better.
How to get Data out of the CAD Drawing (DWF)
Here are a few ways to retreive the Data you are searching for:
You can use the Select by Intersection method.
This method searches the Drawing for a particular Intersection. It returns the View of the Intersection you selected. You can now Click on the Dots labeled by Point Number (i.e. P-4102) to retreive the Data about a particular Section Corner in that Intersection and Print the Point Data and the Drawing View.You can use the Right Click Menu method to get Data from the Drawing.
This method allows you to use the Whip! Controls to get the Data you are looking for.- You can use the Zoom In/Out Control and use your mouse to Pan method.
This allows you to quickly retreive Data you are searching for.