We have Solidworks workstations and we need to visualize 3D drawings on Ubuntu workstations. So forget about E-Drawing. After long and varied tests, we arrived on a 3D PDF solution (not the best but good) to be able to consult these parts.
My questions:
1) who would have a tutorial about Solidworks to generate 3d PDFs with cuts,... and measurable 3D parts.
2) does anyone have any experience with acrobat reader under Ubuntu (to enable the ability to measure 3D parts).
For the 3D pdf it is preferable to make separate recordings, for example one of the complete part, then a second one for cutting etc... If the person viewing has a good level of computer science, the basic file is sufficient, because there is a lot of manipulation with the sub-menus and sub-sub-menus to obtain a result.
I don't know if acrobat is the best under ubuntu.
I tried Foxit, but it's true that the advertising content is boring.
For the side, I had asked a question some time ago to compare CAD software on Linux.
Even if it's not yet optimal, there is still Free CAD which allows you to open the STEP.
It would therefore be necessary to go through a conversion to STEP rather than to 3D PDF, not at all adapted to CAD at the present time but more to visualization.
There may also be online solutions such as Autocad 360 but in 3D, to look for.
@Coyote: Because Draftsight on Ubuntu is just a disaster... Installation anything but simple (I didn't succeed), bugs in a mess since it's still a beta version, in short, it's unusable.
Only the Windows version is darling, even on Mac it's a hassle...
Wouldn't the easiest thing be to test eDrawing under WINE?
It's been a long time since I've tinkered with a linux distribution, but WINE generally allows you to run a lot of Windows applications (on the other hand, no salvation for OLE links)
- Drafsight under Ubuntu, I confirm it's a disaster, to update and also to use. It lacks options and it's a slightly downgraded version of the Windows version. But it is in this environment that I commonly use it.
- E-Drawing with Wine, it's good to crash the PC directly and I had the machine polluted for a long time by this false good idea.
- Solidworks generates beautiful 3D pdfs. This is the basic point of my reflection. Adobe's Reader is the only one I have found that knows how to manage a 3D part well (under Ubuntu), hence the question asked.
- I couldn't find the measurement function in my version of reader. Is it because Solidworks has not included in the model an information that allows it or simply an option to activate?
- I see that Windowsians have a bit of trouble with the free environment of Ubuntu. It's true, Ubuntu is freedom unless you really want to work with it.
- Regarding Freecad, it's a software for drawing, the objective here is visualization with a simple tool such as E-Drawing, but for a non-Windows environment.
- We have Windows for Solidworks because it doesn't run on Ubuntu. But I would like to be able to present the designs of the design office with a little more flexibility and "fun" than by jpg screenshots and PDFs of 2D plans.
Finally, I have no choice for Ubuntu, I have to deal with it, thank you for not rubbing salt in the wound by talking to me about "Window", SNIF....
Thanks again for the ideas, and a solution will be found!
In fact, under Ubuntu I have the latest version available, i.e. version 9. In this version, under this environment, the function exists, at least in the online doc. I think that the Windows and Linux version number do not match because a windows version 9 and the same Ubuntu version 9 are not of the same generation. What for? I don't know, but that's part of the mysteries...
In fact Acrobat reader under Ubuntu is like Drafsight under Ubuntu, it's like under Windows, but it's not the same. The Ubuntu versions of these 2 programs are the Windows versions without the interesting parts in the software, but are present in the docs.