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Working with third-party viewers to distribute and collaborate on your 3D designs

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Working with third-party viewers to distribute and collaborate on your 3D designs

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- [Instructor] In this chapter, we're going to take a look at how we work with third-party viewers. Often when you're working in 3D modeling in AutoCAD and you want to get that 3D model out to a client, a stakeholder, another member of the team, you'll often use a third-party viewer. Now, a third-party viewer is another piece of application software that you might use and you might export out your 3D model into it so that other people can view and mark up the model. So what is a third-party viewing application? What does it do? Well, it's viewing software that is sometimes non-Autodesk, so hence the term third-party. It might be another software vendor that provides the third-party viewer. It allows non-Autodesk users to view your designs remotely, normally in a browser. And it allows people to view that 3D design, comment on it, mark it up, measure from it as well. And a lot of these people are non-Autodesk users. They don't use AutoCAD in 3D for example. All they want to do is see…

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