eDrawings 2015 Release Notes

This document provides general information about the eDrawings® 2015 release.

Refer to What's New, (see Administration Guides and select the What's New in SOLIDWORKS document), for descriptions of new functionality.

IMPORTANT - End of Life Announcement  
System Requirements  
Installation  
Functionality  
Service Pack 5.0  
Service Pack 4.0  
Service Pack 3.0  
Service Pack 2.0  
Service Pack 1.0  
For eDrawings product information, see www.eDrawingsViewer.com.

IMPORTANT - End of Life Announcement

eDrawings 2015 is the last release that supports the Windows 7 32-bit operating system. eDrawings 2016 products will not install on the Windows 7 32-bit operating system.

System Requirements

  • For current supported operating systems and to ensure successful installation and optimum performance, see System Requirements.
  • For optimum performance of RealView graphics in SOLIDWORKS 2015 software, see Video Card Testing, where the recommended graphics cards and drivers are flagged with the gold RealView icon.

Installation

Installation Tips

See Administration Guides and select the eDrawings Installation and Administration Guide document.

You must accept the End-User License Agreements for every service pack upgrade for every product.

Functionality

3D Views

3D Views are available in part documents only.

Annotations

The 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.

Overview Window

The Overview window is not available.

eDrawings Measure

Measure is disabled for non-draft quality broken views.

Service Pack 5.0

There are no version-specific notes for this release.

Service Pack 4.0

You can now open files as read-only.

Service Pack 3.0

There are no version-specific notes for this release.

Service Pack 2.0

There are no version-specific notes for this release.

Service Pack 1.0

There are no version-specific notes for this release.