Hello
We are equipped at the SolidWorks Design Office under EPDM.
We will be buying PDM viewer licenses for the other services, but I would like to make sure that they will be able to open the files for reading and take action.
Also, I thought about eDrawings but will they be able to read and at least take dimensions on the SolidWorks source files assemblies, parts and plans?
I tested it on my computer but being in eDrawings Pro, I don't know if it's valid for all versions.
Thank you
Anthony
Hello Antho
Hypothesis 2: If you want your colleagues to be able to read Edrawing, this implies that you must systematically have two versions with one piece or asm and the other in Edrawing format.
For the rest, our friends here will tell you
no need for 2 file versions,
Edrawing "eats" the PRT / ASM / DRW directly
if there is EPDM, all users will have "Edrawing standard" to install.
I don't have "standard edrawing" to test, the best Antho is to test yourself on a pc that he there, you open a PRT or ASM, and you see if measuring works.
For me, it should work.
you don't need to be connected to EPDM to try, at worst you copy-paste a PRT or ASM file somewhere on the network for testing, or by a USB key, and you try to open it on a pc that has "Edrawing standard".
@Olivier
Thank you I discover that Edrawing "eats" directly the PRT / ASM / DRW
So what is the point of making Edrawing files.
Is it for privacy reasons? because with an Edrawing file you can allow or forbid the taking of dimensions and maybe the cuts, well everything you want to remain discreet about without going through other functions that delete the inside of the ASM for example.
Zozo_mp,
With edrawings you can also make .exe for people who don't have it. If you have a part or an asm to send to a client so that he can view it, just open the file in edrawings and save it as and select .exe
or simply to share a folder whose state is frozen (no risk of accidental modification or not...)
Hello yes edrawing allows you to take measurements on SW file.
We use Edrawing for the people in the workshop and SW without PDM for the design office, the risk is that when a person in the workshop opens a part or an assembly in 1st, when the design office tries to open it it is read-only. What is very annoying and the only way found is to open the file from edrawing by checking the read-only option.
Be careful with this point, which can be very painful. (especially when the name of the PC does not allow to identify the person who opened the file)
Thank you for all your answers!
@ sbadenis & stefbeno : We won't have this problem since we are on EPDM and the files will not be able to be extracted by these users because they will only have a viewer version, so necessarily read-only.
I couldn't test because we all have the Pro version at the BE and I wanted to make sure that this was also the case on the standard version.
Thank you franck.ceroux, the standard version allows it of course on a 3D.
I'm still going to test in real life to make sure that in our configuration, it will be OK (including drawing).
Zozo, curiosity often allows you to discover things with software, for example with Edrawing, you just have to press "file open" and look at the list of extensions that it can "eat".
Same with SW, to "open", or "save as"...
Similarly with functions in CAD, "the famous right-click" (with extended menu) allows you to see a lot of things, or in the left panel, opening to look at the different sections of a function also allows you to learn, understand, discover...
sbadenis, since it is under Epdm, with the right group-user rights, the workshop should logically only have read-only access.
And with Epdm and the "Extract/Archive" principle, there is no risk because if the user groups are well configured, the default will be the read-only opening (without extraction).
May the dark side be with you...
Damn, I wanted to install standard eDrawings on my workstation to test but it automatically switched it to Pro...
I'm going to see on a workstation that doesn't have SolidWorks.
After testing, it works well!