1	Design Publisher Password Protection Digital Signatures Frank Zander Contract CADD Group
2	New Features WorkShop Getting Started with the “New Features Workshop” From the AutoCAD Help menu select New Features WorkShop
3	New Features WorkShop Next select the Design Publisher
4	Design Publisher With Design Publisher, you can assemble and publish electronic drawing sets, which you can then distribute via email. Your electronic drawing set is a single Design Web Format (DWF) file, which can be viewed and plotted with the Autodesk Express Viewer, a free viewer available for download on www.Autodesk.com. For greater security, you can also add a password to your drawing set.
5	Design Publisher Scenario You are an interior designer working on a space plan for a corporate client. Your client is also working with an interior decorator, who will be specifying the furniture, fixtures, and equipment. The interior decorator needs some of your drawings to begin her work. To save time and the expense of shipping a set of paper drawings, you use Design Publisher to assemble an electronic drawing set that you can email to her.
6	Design Publisher Open the Project Drawings You have already started two drawings for your project. One drawing contains your space plan. The second drawing contains the files from your consultants. The interior decorator needs drawing sheets or layouts from both drawings. You use Design Publisher to assemble the drawing sheets you want to send.
7	Design Publisher Open Help\NewFeaturesWorkshop\Furniture Set.dwg. This drawing contains the space plan for your project. The interior designer needs the Space Plan layout in this drawing. Close the drawing without saving changes. Open Help\NewFeaturesWorkshop\Consultant Set.dwg. This drawing contains layouts for the Floor, HVAC, Lighting, and Power Plans. The interior designer needs some, but not all, of the layouts in this drawing. Save your drawing as My Consultant Set.dwg.
8	Design Publisher Assemble the Drawing Set You can use Design Publisher to assemble layouts from multiple drawings into a single electronic drawing set.
9	Design Publisher In My Consultant Set.dwg, on the Standard toolbar, click Publish. In the Publish Drawing Sheets dialog box, a list of drawing sheets is displayed. The list of drawing sheets contains all of the layouts in your drawing. The interior decorator also needs a layout from Furniture Set.dwg. In the Publish Drawing Sheets dialog box, click Add Sheets. In the Select Drawings dialog box, select Furniture Set.dwg, and then click Select to add the layouts in Furniture Set.dwg to your list of drawing sheets
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11	Design Publisher Remove Sheets from Your Drawing Set Because the interior decorator only needs a few select sheets, you remove the unnecessary sheets. Removing the sheets only removes them from the list of drawing sheets. Removing sheets does not delete them from your original drawing.
12	Design Publisher In the Publish Drawing Sheets dialog box, select the sheet My Consultant Set-HVAC Plan, and then click Remove. The sheet is removed from the list of drawing sheets. To select multiple sheets at once, hold down CTRL and then select the following sheets: My Consultant Set-Power Plan My Consultant Set-Model (if listed) Furniture Set-Model (if listed) Click Remove. Verify that the list of drawing sheets now contains only three sheets: My Consultant Set-Floor Plan My Consultant Set-Lighting Plan Furniture Set-Space Plan
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14	Design Publisher Reorder the Sheets in Your Drawing Set The order in which sheets appear in the list of drawing sheets determines the order of the sheets in the published drawing set. You can reorder the sheets in the most logical viewing order
15	Design Publisher In the Publish Drawing Sheets dialog box, select Furniture Set-Space Plan, and then click Move Up. Furniture Set-Space Plan is the second sheet in the list. Verify that the sheets are arranged in the following order: My Consultant Set-Floor Plan Furniture Set-Space Plan My Consultant Set-Lighting Plan
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17	Design Publisher Publish an Electronic Drawing Set in Design Web Format (DWF) Now that you have your drawing sheets assembled in the order you want, you are ready to publish your electronic drawing set in Design Web Format (DWF). DWF files can be viewed and plotted with Autodesk Express Viewer, which can be downloaded for free.
18	Design Publisher In the Publish Drawing Sheets dialog box, under Publish To, make sure that Multi-Sheet DWF file is selected. Click Browse. In the Select DWF File dialog box, under File Name, enter Decorator Set, and then click Select. In the Publish Drawing Sheets dialog box, click Publish to generate the DWF file. When the DWF is published, the Publishing Complete message box is displayed.
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21	Design Publisher View Your Electronic Drawing Set You can view your electronic drawing set (DWF) using the Autodesk Express Viewer, which was automatically installed when you installed AutoCAD 2004.
22	Design Publisher In the Publishing Complete message box, click View DWF File. (To view the DWF, you can also use Windows Explorer to browse to and open the file.) Autodesk Express Viewer opens and displays the sheet My Consultant Set-Floor Plan. You can view and plot only one sheet at a time. In Autodesk Express Viewer, click the list arrow to expand the list of sheets. In the expanded list, select Furniture Set-Space Plan. The sheet showing the space plan is now displayed. You can zoom and pan within each sheet. For more information about using Autodesk Express Viewer, see Help in Autodesk Express Viewer. When you are finished viewing the drawing set, under File, click Exit to close Autodesk Express Viewer. In AutoCAD, in the Publishing Complete message box, click Close. In the Publish Drawing Sheets dialog box, click Close. In the List of Sheets Changed message box, click No. Close your drawing without saving changes.
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24	Design Publisher Wrap Up You can use Design Publisher to assemble multi-page drawing sets with layouts from multiple drawings. You do not need to worry about any attached xrefs. You can publish an electronic drawing set as a DWF file. DWF is the best format for exchanging files via email or over the Internet. DWF files can be viewed and plotted with Autodesk Express Viewer, a free viewer available for download.
25	Password Protection When you need to control who can open and view a confidential drawing, you can protect it by adding a password. When you password-protect a drawing, you encrypt the drawing, altering it with a secret code. A password-protected or encrypted drawing can only be opened by someone who knows the correct password.
26	Password Protection Scenario You are a designer in a manufacturing company, working on a welding fixture that may be patented. Because your drawing is confidential, you protect it with a password before sending it to the fabricator.
27	Password Protection Open a Drawing and Save a Backup Copy Open Help\NewFeaturesWorkshop\Welding Fixture.dwg. Before you add a password to this confidential drawing, create a backup copy. A password-protected drawing can be opened only by someone who knows the correct password. If you forget the password, you won't be able to open the drawing. Back up the drawing by saving it as Patented Welding Fixture.dwg.
28	Password Protection Add a Password Now that you have a backup copy, you add a password to your drawing. On the Tools menu, click Options. In the Options dialog box, on the Open and Save tab, select Security Options. In the Security Options dialog box, on the Password tab, enter test and then click OK. In the Confirm Password dialog box, enter test again, and then click OK. In the Options dialog box, click OK. Your drawing is now password-protected. When you send the drawing to the manufacturer, it can be opened only by someone with the correct password. Save your changes, and close your drawing without quitting AutoCAD
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30	Password Protection Open a Password-Protected Drawing To verify the password before sending the drawing to the manufacturer, you open the password-protected drawing
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32	Password Protection Wrap Up You can protect confidential drawings by adding a password. When you password-protect a drawing, you encrypt the drawing, altering it with a secret code. A password-protected drawing can be opened only by someone who knows the correct password.
33	Digital Signatures When you sign a document by hand, your signature gives that document a certain authority. Anyone reading the document is guaranteed that it came from you. Digital signatures provide the same benefit for electronic drawings. A digital signature cannot be forged. When you are ready to issue a drawing (for example, a permit drawing), you can use AutoCAD to attach a digital signature. To attach a digital signature, you first need a digital ID from a certificate authority, such as VeriSign. Your digital signature is valid as long as the drawing is not changed. Anyone receiving your drawing can validate it to see that it really came from you. Anyone receiving your drawing with an invalid signature can easily tell that it was changed after you attached the digital signature.
34	Digital Signatures Scenario You are a manager in a fabrication company. You have received an electronic drawing from a client, and you are about to start production. Because the drawing has a valid digital signature, you are confident that the drawing has not been changed since it was signed.
35	Digital Signatures Open a Drawing with a Digital Signature Open Help\NewFeaturesWorkshop\Frame Assembly.dwg. Because this drawing was signed, the Digital Signature Contents window is displayed as soon as you open the drawing. Look at the information in the Digital Signature Contents window. The drawing was signed by Jane Smith and has not been modified since she signed it. The information includes the date and time. Click Close.
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37	Digital Signatures Change a Signed Drawing As you are viewing the drawing, you notice that one of the notation tags is incorrect. You decide to make a correction. In the drawing, zoom in on the detail showing three rings. Erase the notation 8a and the associated arrow. Save your drawing as My Frame Assembly.dwg.
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39	Digital Signatures Validate the Digital Signature Now that you have changed and saved a signed drawing, check the digital signature. On the status bar tray, click Validate Digital Signatures. The Validate Digital Signatures message box is displayed. The digital signature is invalid. The file has been changed after it was signed. In the Validate Digital Signatures message box, click Close. Close your drawing without exiting AutoCAD.
40	Digital Signatures Validate the Digital Signature Now that you have changed and saved a signed drawing, check the digital signature.
41	Digital Signatures Open a Drawing with an Invalid Signature Because you invalidated the signature, anyone opening this file will be able to tell that it was changed after it was signed. Open Help\NewFeaturesWorkshop\My Frame Assembly.dwg. Look at the information in the Digital Signature Contents window. The drawing was signed by Jane Smith, but it has been modified since she signed it. The digital signature is invalid. In the Digital Signature Contents window, click close. Close your drawing without saving it.
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43	Digital Signatures Wrap Up Digital signatures provide an extra level of security. Anyone receiving a digitally signed drawing can validate the signature. Anyone receiving a drawing with an invalid signature can easily tell that the drawing was changed after it was signed.
44	Thank you Frank Zander Title Contract CADD Group Frank.Zander@contractcaddgroup.com