This document provides general information about the SolidWorks® eDrawings® 2009 releases. For more information, visit www.eDrawingsViewer.com.
SolidWorks DimXpert. Dimensions and annotations created in SolidWorks using DimXpert for parts are not shown in SolidWorks documents opened in eDrawings. They are shown in documents published to eDrawings files.
Pro/ENGINEER. Pro/ENGINEER® models can be imported with the following limitations:
Pro/ENGINEER version 16 through Wildfire4 is supported.
Parts and assemblies can be imported, but drawings cannot.
If a model uses Pro/ENGINEER family table instances, then the .xpr and .xas accelerator instance files must be present for correct results. Although these instance accelerator files are optional for Pro/ENGINEER, they are required in eDrawings. When the family table instance modifies the top level of an assembly, open the .xas file corresponding to that instance.
Colors in part files are recognized, but colors applied at the assembly level are lost during translation.
Certain Pro/ENGINEER features, such as annotations, sketches, and layers, are not imported.
Adobe Acrobat 3D. Executing 3D Capture in Adobe® Acrobat® 3D causes eDrawings to consume large amounts of memory. The problem has been reported to Adobe.
Annotations. The SolidWorks eDrawings Viewer does not support the option Always display text at the same size for SolidWorks documents (in SolidWorks, select the Options tool, and then select Detailing for the Document Properties tab). Annotation text scaling is supported for eDrawings part and assembly files published from SolidWorks. Only 1:1 text scaling is supported for SolidWorks part and assembly files opened in eDrawings.
SolidWorks eDrawings 2009 for Mac. Known issues:
Password-protected dxf/dwg files are not supported.
The Search command in the Help does not work.
SolidWorks drawings. Perspective views created in SolidWorks drawings are not shaded in the eDrawings Viewer.
eDrawings Measure. Measure is disabled for non-draft quality broken views.
System Requirements
Operating system requirements:
eDrawings 2009 supports Microsoft® XP Service Pack 2 or later.
Tablet PCs require Tablet XP Service Pack 2 or later.
SolidWorks eDrawings 2009 for Mac supports Macintosh® Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger) or later.
Documentation
What's New for SolidWorks eDrawings 2009 is now located in the Other Functionality chapter of What's New in SolidWorks 2009 under Administrative Guides.
Service Pack 5.0
Resolved issues:
An issue that caused incorrect measurements in scaled detail drawing views was resolved.
An issue where certain features of a part would lose their applied color when the part was made transparent was resolved.
The print quality for DWG files with text fields was improved.
An issue where very large drawings printed as completely black was resolved.
A file-specific printing problem in drawing files with design tables was resolved.
A file-specific printing issue in which extra dots were scattered on the print was resolved.
A line font problem with DWG files was corrected.
A file-specific display problem with DWG files was resolved.
A file-specific display issue that occurred when more lights were specified for the model than the graphics hardware could handle was resolved.
A licensing issue that occurred when publishing eDrawings files on a 64-bit machine with an eDrawings Professional license but only a SolidWorks Standard license was resolved.
A file-specific crash that occurred on opening a drawing file saved in SolidWorks 2001Plus or earlier that contained a shaded or draft-quality view of an assembly has been resolved.
A crash was fixed for an analysis file published from SolidWorks Simulation in which the model contains a cylinder and certain eDrawings display options are selected.
Service Pack 4.0
New features:
A new API method enables the printing of a range of drawing sheets. Previously, API printing was possible only for the current sheet.
Resolved issues:
A file-specific issue was resolved so that legacy SLDDRW files saved in SolidWorks 2008 now correctly display the drawing "paper."
An issue has been resolved with the print quality of certain fonts when DWG files are saved as EDRW files and reopened in eDrawings.
A crash when eDrawings documents are inserted as OLE objects into Microsoft Office documents has been resolved.
A file-specific crash opening DXF files with multiple layers has been resolved.
An issue resulting in missing annotation leaders from certain SLDDRW files has been resolved.
A file-specific crash opening certain SolidWorks documents has been resolved.
A file-specific parsing error opening certain SolidWorks documents has been resolved.
An issue has been resolved where adding markup to a DWG file with unicode layer names caused layers to be hidden.
Service Pack 3.0
New features:
eDrawings support for opening Pro/ENGINEER files now includes Wildfire® 3.0 and 4.0.
Resolved issues:
An issue displaying splines from DWG files has been resolved.
In the eDrawings API, a problem has been resolved with setting the EModelMarkupControl::ViewOperator property to eMVOperatorMoveComponent.
A problem opening a SolidWorks part containing a sketch picture has been resolved.
Silently setting the SolidNetWork License Server location now works properly on Windows Vista®.
An issue displaying symbols containing arcs (for example, geometric tolerance and weld symbols) introduced in Service Pack 2.0 has been resolved.
Service Pack 2.0
Resolved issues:
An issue displaying and printing section lines using the GOST standard has been resolved.
A file-specific zoom problem has been resolved. This problem prevented zooming in on particular drawings.
A Microsoft® Visio® drawing embedded in an SLDDRW file now displays properly.
eDrawings for Mac can now open folders and filenames containing non-English characters.
Leaders with the filled-circle arrow style now display correctly for native SLDDRW files.
DWG files containing Greek characters now display correctly.
HSF files now open correctly.
BOMs in assemblies now print properly from views other than the front view.
A file-specific printing crash has been resolved.
A file-specific display issue for DWG files containing arcs has been resolved.
Service Pack 1.0
Resolved issues:
Clearing the new Show latest news feed in status bar option from the General tab of the Options dialog disables the display of SolidWorks news and events.
The Save with shaded data option on the Save As dialog now works properly on Vista.
Printing performance for dwg files has been improved from the degradation first noticed in eDrawings 2008 Service Pack 3.
A file-specific printing failure is fixed.
The time required to import some large SolidWorks files with eDrawings 2009 Service Pack 0.0 is greater than that for eDrawings 2008. For Service Pack 1.0, this time has been significantly reduced from that of Service Pack 0.0.