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cadlabsreview eDrawings Professional is a viewing and publishing application from SolidWorks for sharing and archiving 2D and 3D product design data. which help express the intent of original design files. eDrawings files are created with the eDrawings Publisher add-in, which works with a number of popular CAD products. For those without the eDrawings Viewer, you can embed the Viewer directly in an eDrawings file, creating an executable file that can be easily viewed by anyone who has access to a system running Windows. The eDrawings file extension varies with the type of file it was converted from. For example, EASM files are created from assemblies, while EDRW files are created from drawings. Users can publish eDrawings files from SolidWorks 2005 or later, AutoCAD R14.x–2004, Autodesk Inventor 8 and 9, Pro/ENGINEER 2000ie or 2001 and Wildfire, CATIA v5 R10– R13, a number of Unigraphics versions, and CoCreate’s OneSpace Designer 13.01. eDrawings software runs under Microsoft Windows XP Professional, XP Tablet PC Edition, Windows 2000, Windows NT 4.0 with Service Pack 6 or later, Windows ME, and Windows 98 second edition. With the free eDrawings software, users can produce compact files from multiple CAD platforms with drawing layouts, hyperlinking, 3D pointers, and point-and-click animations. They can share and view design analyses and save files in STL and other file formats. The fee-based eDrawings Professional software adds a number of additional capabilities, including markup, measurement, password protection, dynamic cross-section and exploded views, and component movement. Additionally, eDrawings Professional lets users view SolidWorks configurations and multiple design variations of a part or assembly model displayed within a single document. To protect sensitive design data, users can disable the measurement feature when creating the eDrawings file. With the Cadalyst test files, eDrawings Professional produced a 1.79 MB EASM file from the SolidWorks SeaScooter assembly in less than one minute, 30 seconds. eDrawings Professional required less than 30 seconds to produce a 159 KB EDRW file from the AutoCAD engine drawing. For more information about SolidWorks eDrawings software, visit the SolidWorks Web site. There you can download the free version of the software, a trial version of eDrawings Professional, eDrawings Publisher for a number of different CAD platforms, and the eDrawings application programming interface (API) software development kit for customizing eDrawings software to specific needs. At present, the eDrawings Publisher allows you to publish eDrawings files directly from AutoCAD, CATIA v5, CoCreate’s OneSpace, Inventor, Pro/ ENGINEER, Solid Edge v17, SolidWorks, and Unigraphics. The free eDrawings Viewer allows users to view, print, and review all types of eDrawings files and also serves as a free viewer for AutoCAD DWG and DXF files and SolidWorks parts, assemblies, and drawings. c Ron LaFon, a contributing editor for Cadalyst, is a writer, editor, and a computer graphics and electronic publishing specialist from Atlanta, Georgia. He is a principal at 3Bear Productions in Atlanta. 27 www.cadalyst.com | cadalyst | November 2007 http://www.bluebeam.com http://www.bluebeam.com http://www.cadalyst.com

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Cadalyst - November 2007 Contents Editor's window Cad Central Conceptual Inspiration for Less Than $200 From Any Angle - Publish and Share Your 3D Designs NX 5, Part 1 - CAD/CAM/CAE Software Newforma Project Center Fourth Edition - Software for Project Information Management CAD Manager's Survey 2007 Sharing and Collaborating with Your Team To BIMfinity and Beyond! Solutions for Sending Large Digital Files Cad Cartoon Issue Indexes Cad Fidential

Cadalyst - November 2007

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