This document provides general information about the SolidWorks® eDrawings® 2012 release. For more information:
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For new eDrawings features |
See Administration Guides and select the What's New in SolidWorks document. |
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For installation tips |
See Administration Guides and select the SolidWorks eDrawings Installation and Administration Guide document. |
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For SolidWorks eDrawings Help |
Click Help, SolidWorks eDrawings Help Topics. |
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For eDrawings product information |
eDrawings and component-level display states
The component-level display state functionality is not yet supported in eDrawings.
Republishing assemblies
If you republish an existing assembly in SolidWorks 2012 and open the .easm file in eDrawings, the display states might not work properly.
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 Wildfire 5.0 are 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 2012 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 2012 supports Microsoft® XP Service Pack 3 or later.
Tablet PCs require Tablet XP Service Pack 2 or later.
SolidWorks eDrawings 2012 for Mac supports Macintosh® Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard) or Mac OS 10.6 (Snow Leopard).
Service Pack 3.0
There are no version-specific notes for this release.
Service Pack 2.0
Options. There is a new option to disable all reference checking in eDrawings. To disable reference checking, click Tools > Options > General and select Do not check for file references.
Service Pack 1.0
There are no version-specific notes for this release.