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Detaily Help Desk:

1- Online PDF viewing

2- Google Doc API online viewing

3- Embedded external 3rd party links

4- Embedded <iframe> and <object> tags

5- Online DWF viewing

1- Online PDF viewing:

Since 2013, in most of its pages, Detaily is using embedded PDF formatted files for its online viewing. For more than a decade, PDF files have become first choice of communication between architects, engineers and construction professionals. Please make sure you have a version of Adobe Acrobat Viewer installed on your computer.

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2- Google Doc API online viewing

This site uses Google Doc API to view Microsoft Doc, Docx, Xls, Xlsx, Ppt, Pptx, and Autocad Dxf. In some occasions, due to heavy load of online traffic, Google Dosc does not open at the first click and need to be re-clicked to view the file.

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3- Embedded external 3rd party links

This site uses <iframe> or <object> tags in most of its pages for viewing our clients or affiliates' web pages or documents. A small precentge of websites, using "x-frame" header options, to disallow their pages being embedded into 3rd party iframe or object tags. To check if a website uses "x-frame" header, You may check it on this link:  https://gf.dev/x-frame-options-test

Even though, we try to avoid linking to these sites, but in certain circumstances, some of our clients prefer to keep their pages being secured against random "so called" clickjacking. In these such cases, 3rd party embedded links will not be shown directly in our pages and either needed to be opened in a new tab, or it requires that you install specific extension to your browsers per followings:

Extension for Chrome browser:

Ignore X-Frame headers
By: Guillaume Ryder

Open link below on your chrome browser and click on "Add to Chrome" tab .

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ignore-x-frame-headers/gleekbfjekiniecknbkamfmkohkpodhe

Embedded page with X-frame header, without Chrome extension:

The developer of this extension is recommending to use it only temporarily and only for development, testing, or troubleshooting purposes because it disables important browser security mechanisms. By adding this extension, you take full responsibility of such installation. If you no longer want to keep this extension, please go again to the link above and click on "Remove from Chrome".

Extension for Microsoft Edge browser:

The above "Ignore X-Frame headers" extension from Chrome web store can be also added to Microsoft Edge. Open link below on MS Edge browser and click on the top blue ribbon to accept adding a chrome web store extension to your Edge browser. Now the blue "Add to chrome" appears. Click on it to add the extension to Microsoft Edge browser.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ignore-x-frame-headers/gleekbfjekiniecknbkamfmkohkpodhe

If you no longer want to keep this extension, please go again to the link above and click on "Remove from Chrome". The developer of this extension is recommending to use it only temporarily and only for developement, testing, or troubleshooting purposes because it disables important browser security mechanisms. By adding this extension, you take full responsibility of such installation.

Extension for Firefox browser:

Ignore X-Frame-Options Header
By: ThomazPom

Open link below on your Firefox browser and click on "+ Add to Firfox" tab.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ignore-x-frame-options-header/

Embedded page with X-frame header, without Firefox extension:

This add-on is not actively monitored for security by Mozilla. Make sure you trust it before installing and you accept all responsibilities for such installation.

** Extension for Safari and Opera are not available as of Feb. 2021.

4- Embedded <iframe> and <object> tags:

<iframe> and <object> tags are being used in almost all pages of this site.

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5- Online DWF viewing:

We are no longer using DWF online viewer embedded scripts.  Up to 2013, Detaily was using DWF online viewer embedded scripts.  Detaily scripts and Google script were both available in our server to view various file formats online.

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Detaily Online Viewing Background:

Prior to 2013, below is the list of files that could be viewed online with use of different browsers or operating system:

  Detaily.com's available file formats for online viewing:

Autodesk & Revit Files Other CAD Softwares Image Files Text Files Flash/Video ZIP
DWG DXF DWF AWS RFA RVT PIN SLD SDW SKP JTS DGN PDF TIF JPG DOC TXT SWF WMV ZIP

 Windows Browsers:

 
 MS Internet Explorer

 
 Google Chrome

 
 Mozilla FireFox

 
 Apple Safari

 
 Opera

 Mac OS Browsers:

 
 Apple Safari

 
 Omni Web

 
 Mozilla FireFox

 
 Google Chrome

 
 Opera

 Apple iPhone / iPad:

 
 Apple's IOS

 Android Phones / Tablets:

 
 Google's Android

 

 Legends:

         Available Online! No application or Plug-in is required.
         Installation of pplications and/or Plug-ins are required prior to online viewing.
         3rd party online applications (Google Docs) will provide online viewing.
         Not available Online!
     *** Browsers & file types Logos are copyright protected and are properties of their software companies.  These logos are used as reference to their browsers only!***

Between 2003 to 2007, we were only using WHIP Viewer embedded scripts to view DWF files online.  WHIP viewer was an AutoCAD product which later changed its name to DWF viewer.  below is the help page to show how to use the online viewing embedded scripts:

AutoDesk Inc.Website: WHIP! Viewer :
WHIP! Internet user guide
Support Options
Sample DWF files
Download AutoCAD WHIP! Viewer

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Right Click Help:
     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.

         PRINT
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.)

         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 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.

Viewing Hyperlinks in WHIP! :

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 WHIP! with Microsoft Internet Explorer :

         Due to a bug in Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0x, when viewing a DWF file in "full screen" mode (when the DWF file is not embedded in an HTML page), selecting "Print..." from the File menu, or clicking the browser's Print toolbar button produces a blank page. To avoid this problem, use the "Print..." option from the WHIP! right-click menu. In addition, printing an HTML page with more than one DWF file embedded does not work successfully.

         The Microsoft Internet Explorer keeps a copy of WHIP! in its "downloaded programs" directory. When upgrading from Internet Explorer 4.0x to Internet Explorer 5.0, WHIP! can become damaged. If this happens, follow these steps:

  1. Shut down Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator and any other application that is using WHIP!.
  2. Uninstall WHIP! through the normal means.
  3. Start up the operating system's File Explorer.
  4. Go to the directory c:\windows\downloaded program files.
  5. In this directory, look for either Autodesk WHIP! or "damaged control."
  6. DO NOT DELETE THIS. Instead, right mouse click on the damaged control or Autodesk WHIP! and select Remove.
  7. Reboot and reinstall WHIP! using the normal means.

The following versions are compatible with each other:

Microsoft

WHIP!

AutoCAD

Internet Explorer 3.02

Release 1.05 (whip1.cab)

R13c4

Internet Explorer 3.02

Release 2.0 (whip2.cab)

R14

Internet Explorer 4.01

Release 4.0 (whip.cab)

R14

Internet Explorer 4.01

Release 4.0 (whip.cab)

2000

Viewing DWF Files with WHIP!:

         WHIP! runs on Windows95, Windows98, and Windows NT. There are no plans to port to Windows 3.11, Macintosh, nor Unix. A WHIP! DWF File Toolkit is available for third parties who wish to port WHIP! to other browsers or platforms. For example, a Java-based viewer is available at http://www.cadviewer.com.

         WHIP! does not yet allow DDE printing of a DWF file from the operating system's right mouse button menu.

         The DWG file must be in the same directory as the DWF file for the drag and drop feature to function. In a future release of Volo View Express (WHIP!'s successor), this restriction may be lifted when the "DWGdirectory" and "DWFdirectory" URL options are implemented.

***Drawings, text and other formatted materials on this site are provided "AS IS" for viewing ONLY!  Detaily will not warrant the use of these drawings for any means of detailing, specification, description, reference, construction, or any other related use beside viewing. Detaily does not guarantee the accuracy of any drawings or their purpose of use. Detaily is not liable for any malfunctioning effect in your computer system. Published drawings & texts are properties of Detaily. All rights reserved.

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