Hello
We are experiencing graphical update issues between the Solidworks CAD files (archived and validated in our PDM) and the visual we get with eDrawings on the PC in our workshop.
This prevents our assemblers on the shop floor from viewing the latest version of our master assembly. We noticed that the problem only occurs on the head assembly but not when opening one of the subassemblies alone.
Do you have a solution to make our workshop a visual faithful to the latest version of our CAD archived in PDM?
Thank you in advance for your feedback.
You have to use PDM viewer if I'm not mistaken (we don't have PDM)
In Drafsight, it is indeed the last recorded version that is displayed
Hello
Thank you for your answer.
PDM Viewer doesn't work either in this case, it's the same problems with graphics updates.
Isn't there a property setting in Solidworks or eDrawings possible to get a faithful rendering? Or an alternative solution?
If you save the assembly as resolved instead of lightweight (if possible...), does that change anything?
Answer from the hotline at the time (2016 version):
"Edrawing being a simple viewer, it does not allow you to update the drawing of an assembly that has been modified. It is mandatory to update the drawing in SolidWorks"
This also applies to assemblies, if a part is modified, ascending assemblies will not be updated.
And if we modify a child assembly, the parent assemblies will also not be up to date.
It should be understood that Edrawing opens a 3D image of the last 3D recording.
On the other hand, it seemed to me that at that time the hotline had recommended PDM Viewer which was not supposed to have the same problem.
Apparently either you use it badly because of ignorance, or there is a hidden feature or at the time you lied to me at the time to sell me something useless or I remember wrong!
there may be an automatic mill in PDM to update and save these assemblies by rebuilding them.
Hello, we had the same problem at the beginning of using the PDM:
Here is the answer:
To keep your EDRAWING representations on your assemblies always up to date, you need to set your SOLIDWORKS system options like this:
Assemblies section / check "Update model graphics when saving files".
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Thank you "dominique.naudet"
I enabled this option and re-registered the shaft head of our assembly. It's perfect, it works well. The visual obtained with eDrawings is faithful to CAD now.