Does anyone know if it is possible to buy a professional Edrawings license?
Because with a free license, it is impossible to measure SolidWorks files, and we are in a floating license, so using Edrawings PRO uses a SolidWorks license.
We have also invested in an Edrawing Pro license (for the Method service).
However, in order to make all of our drawings accessible to the various departments (manufacturing, assembly, after-sales service) of our company, we convert (via a BATCHCONVERTER utility published by Axemble) into a pro drawing (therefore measurable) all of our drawings on a common server.
As a result, all departments have access to the (measurable) detail plans from the BEM.
The problem with BATCHCONVERTER is that we were doing it once a week, and so the plans were not available for a while for other services.
I got around the problem by making a SolidWorks macro, which everyone uses when validating the plan (when archiving at the PDM for us) which saves in PDF and DWG on the server, and implements the link directly in our ERP (we can very well imagine saving in Erdawings too).