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What
is eDrawings software?
eDrawings software is a product design communication tool
for sharing accurate representations of both 2D drawings and
3D models. The electronic data format of eDrawings files is
highly compressed to enable easily transmission via email.
When viewed with the eDrawings Viewer, these files provide
intelligent interpretation tools (3D Pointer, Virtual Folding,
Animated Drawing Views) that help the recipient easily understand
and navigate the data they receive. eDrawings files are created
through the use of the eDrawings Publisher add-in, which works
as a plug-in to popular CAD products. Once created, an eDrawings
file may be sent to anyone via email. To eliminate the frustrations
normally associated with 2D and 3D design data, the viewer
may be embedded directly in aneDrawings file. These files
can immediately be viewed by anyone with a Windows operating
system. No additional CAD software or viewers are required.
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Which
applications are required to publish eDrawings files?
You can publish
eDrawings files from :
- SolidWorks 2005 or later
- AutoCAD version R14.x, AutoCAD 2000, AutoCAD 2002, or
AutoCAD 2004
- Inventor 8 and 9
- Pro/ENGINEER 2000i2 or 2001 or Wildfire
- CATIA V5 R10, CATIA V5 R11, CATIA V5 R12 and CATIA V5
R13
- Unigraphics V18.0, Unigraphics V17.0, NX
- Solid Edge® Version 17
- CoCreate's OneSpace Designer 13.01
- Google Sketchup
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Which
operating systems are supported by eDrawings software?
Microsoft Windows
Vista, Windows XP Professional, Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, Windows
2000 (eDrawings 2008 will be last version to support this OS), Windows NT® 4.0 with Service Pack 6 or later are supported.
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Which
languages are supported in eDrawings Viewer?
eDrawings Viewer
and eDrawings Publisher for SolidWorks and AutoCAD support
the following languages:
| Traditional Chinese |
Japanese |
| Simplified Chinese |
Korean |
| English |
Polish |
| French |
Russian |
| German |
Spanish |
| Italian |
Czech |
| Portuguese - Brazilian |
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* eDrawings Publisher
for Pro/ENGINEER and CATIA support: English, French, German
and Japanese.
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Does
eDrawings software support Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC
Edition?
Yes, eDrawings software
provides optimal tools for the tablet pen and ink.
How
to can I embed an eDrawings file within a Microsoft PowerPoint
presentation?
Save the eDrawings
file as an HTML file and add an embedded web browser control
to your PowerPoint presentation. You will need to enable macros
in PowerPoint and set macro security to low or medium. (Tools->Macro->Security).
In your eDrawings slide, you will need to add two items: the
Microsoft Web Browser control and a button to activate it.
Your button will typically set the URL of the web browser
to the location of your eDrawings file.
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example.
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Is
it necessary to install the CAD Application and eDrawings
Viewer on the same machine?
No, eDrawings software
does not require any additional software to be installed,
although you will need the CAD application in order to publish
eDrawings files directly inside these applications.
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My
email software automatically removes .EXE attachments from
all incoming and outgoing emails. How can I send eDrawings
file to recipients who have not installed the eDrawings Viewer?
To minimize the
impact of the larger viewer size and email virus filters,
a ZIP and HTML option has been added to the File...Send command.
This option does not embed the eDrawings Viewer in an executable
file; instead it automatically downloads it from the Internet
and embeds the eDrawings Viewer in a standard web page. Since
the HTML file only contains the eDrawings file data and a
small amount of HTML code, this results in a smaller file
size than the original .EXE option.
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What
is eDrawings Professional software?
eDrawings Professional
extends the functionality of eDrawings Viewer to include markup
and measure, and the unique ability to publish eDrawings files
as review-enabled. Publishing a review-enabled eDrawings file
is like embedding a markup pen in your document. Recipients
are able to markup and measure the eDrawings file using the
free eDrawings Viewer; they do not need to purchase eDrawings
Professional or other software to view the eDrawings files.
eDrawings Professional includes advanced viewing capabilities
such as dynamic component translation, and dynamic cross section
views. eDrawings Professional also includes the Publisher
add-in for SolidWorks®, AutoCAD®, CATIA®, Pro/ENGINEER®,
Unigraphics/NX, Solid Edge® and CoCreate's OneSpace users.
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What
is the pricing for the eDrawings products?
eDrawings Viewer
and eDrawings Publishers are free products. The advanced collaboration
capabilities of eDrawings Professional are available at additional
cost.
To purchase eDrawings Professional for SolidWorks and AutoCAD,
please contact the SolidWorks office nearest you, or call 800-693-9000 toll-free for more information. Outside the U.S. and Canada, please call +1-978-371-5011.
To purchase eDrawings Professional for Inventor, Pro/E, CATIA, Unigraphics/NX and SolidEdge, please click here.
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Does
a recipient need to install eDrawings Viewer in order to markup
a review-enabled eDrawings file?
If a review-enabled
eDrawings file is sent in either executable (.exe), masked
executable (.ex) or HTML (.htm) format, the recipient is not
required to install eDrawings Viewer to mark up a review-enabled
eDrawings file.
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How
can I prevent an eDrawings file recipient from using the measure
feature?
To protect your
design data, you can permanently disable the measure capability
at the time you create the eDrawings file.
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As
an AutoCAD user, why don't my eDrawings files include shaded
views and animations?
The shaded views
and animation features are available only within eDrawings
files that are created from SolidWorks files because these
SolidWorks files contain a solid model.
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Which
licensing models are supported by eDrawings for Pro/ENGINEER?
eDrawings for Pro/ENGINEER
is available both with Node lock license. Floating license.
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Where
can I find *.prt or other Pro/ENGINEER file formats in the
eDrawings Open File menu?
The eDrawings Viewer
cannot open Pro/ENGINEER files directly. The software consists
of a Pro/ENGINEER publisher and the eDrawings Viewer. The
publisher is an add-on to Pro/ENGINEER. After installing the
software, click on eDrawings->Publish menu-item in Pro/ENGINEER
to publish the opened Pro/ENGINEER model to eDrawings. If
you don't see the eDrawings menu in Pro/ENGINEER, please refer
to the next FAQ.
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I
have installed eDrawings for Pro/ENGINEER, but the eDrawings
menu does not appear in the Pro/ENGINEER interface. What should
I do?
To integrate eDrawings
Professional for Pro/ENGINEER with Pro/ENGINEER, you must
install Pro/ENGINEER before installing eDrawings software.
If you install eDrawings Professional for Pro/ENGINEER before
installing Pro/ENGINEER, eDrawings will not be integrated
with Pro/ENGINEER. The other reason could be the recent "time-out"
issue acknowledged by Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC).
Please refer to the next FAQ.
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What
is meant by the time out issue in Pro/ENGINEER and how does
it affect my use of eDrawings Professional for Pro/ENGINEER?
PTC has recently identified a bug that causes inter-process
communications between Pro/ENGINEER and related application
modules to time out prematurely on January 10, 2004. This
issue affects instantiation of eDrawings Professional for
Pro/ENGINEER. Please refer to http://www.ptc.com/go/timeout/index.htm
for further details.
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What should I do to solve the time out
issue in Pro/ENGINEER?
In order to overcome this bug, we request you to replace your
copy of NMSD.exe with the latest one available at http://www.ptc.com/go/timeout/technical_resource.htm
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How
can I upgrade to a later version of eDrawings Professional
for Pro/ENGINEER?
Uninstall earlier versions of eDrawings Professional for Pro/ENGINEER
and then install the newer version. Valid license keys from
earlier version are transferable.
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Which
licensing models are supported by eDrawings for CATIA V5 software?
eDrawings for CATIA
V5 is available with Node lock license and Floating license.
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Where
can I find the *.CATPart or other CATIA V5 file formats in
the eDrawings Open file menu?
The eDrawings Viewer
cannot open CATIA V5 files directly. The software consists
of a CATIA V5 publisher and the eDrawings Viewer. The publisher
is an add-on to CATIA V5. After installing the software, click
Tools->eDrawings->Publish menu-item in CATIA V5 to publish
the opened CATIA V5 model to eDrawings.
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I
have installed eDrawings Professional for CATIA V5 but the
eDrawings menu does not appear in the CATIA V interface. What
should I do?
To integrate eDrawings
Professional for CATIA V5 with CATIA V5 , you must install
CATIA V5 before installing eDrawings software. If you install
eDrawings Professional for CATIA V5 before installing CATIA
V5 , eDrawings will not be integrated with CATIA V5 .
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How
can I upgrade to a later version of eDrawings Professional
for CATIA V5?
Please uninstall
earlier version of eDrawings Professional for CATIA V5 and
then install the new version. Valid license keys from earlier
version are transferable.
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Why
do I get error messages serving eDrawings over IIS6/Windows
Server 2003?
You must add the correct MIME types for .eprt, .easm, .edrw,
etc... files in your IIS settings before IIS6 will serve them
over HTTP.
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