SolidWorks eDrawings Installation and Administration Guide
Available SolidWorks� eDrawings� products are:
SolidWorks eDrawings Viewer. View and create SolidWorks eDrawings files and other supported file types. A free version and a fee-based SolidWorks eDrawings Professional version exist (See the "Licensing" section below).
Note: A SolidWorks installation includes the SolidWorks Document Manager, SWDocumentMgr.dll. When eDrawings is installed on a system without SolidWorks, drawings that include elements such as custom properties and tables may not be displayed with their most current data. When you open a SolidWorks drawing, you are warned about the missing DLL and given the option to install it. If you continue without doing the download, SolidWorks drawings that rely on the DLL are marked with a warning that some of the content may not be up-to-date.
SolidWorks eDrawings Publishers. Create eDrawings files from inside CAD applications. Currently there are publishers for these applications:
AutoCAD
Autodesk Inventor
CATIA
CoCreate
Google
NX
Pro/ENGINEER
Solid Edge
SolidWorks
STEP/IGES/STL, DWG/DXF files, and Rhino formats
Vero VISI
These applications are installed directly on the local hard drive.
Note: Some CAD applications install the eDrawings application when you install the CAD application. Check your local hard drive for an installed version of the eDrawings application.
SolidWorks eDrawings products are available at these web sites or from your CAD application disk:
Licensing is required for SolidWorks eDrawings Professional, which is the SolidWorks eDrawings Viewer with enhanced functionality. The primary methods of licensing are:
SolidWorks eDrawings Professional standalone
SolidWorks Professional*
SolidWorks Premium*
SolidWorks eDrawings Professional - network - SolidNetwork License (SNL)
SolidWorks eDrawings Publishers for CATIA and for NX/Unigraphics require licensing.
* When SolidWorks eDrawings Professional is installed as part of SolidWorks Professional or SolidWorks Premium, SolidWorks eDrawings Professional functionality is available if the SolidWorks license has been activated or you are within the grace period.
You install the SolidWorks eDrawings application:
From the CAD application disk.
From the eDrawings web site.
From a silent installation (see details below).
From an administrative image (see details below).
Via email (From an eDrawings file sent to you as an HTML, ZIP, or EXE file).
Note: The SolidWorks eDrawings application detects existing installations and automatically upgrades the installation. Upgrades are performed within major releases. For example, if eDrawings 2007 Service Pack 1 is already installed and you install eDrawings 2007 Service Pack 2, the existing installation is upgraded. At major releases, you can only install as a new installation; upgrading is not permitted.
Note: See the Properties section for a complete list of global properties.
Silent installations install applications without the display of a user interface or dialog boxes by initially passing all the options on the command line. For more information, see the Windows Installer Help from Microsoft corporation.
To start a silent installation, use the /i and /qn options of the msiexec.exe command. Set the global properties for those installation options that you want to be different from the default values. For example:
msiexec /i "<Msi_path>" INSTALLDIR="C:\Program Files\<your_folder>" REGCODE=<eDrawings_Professional_license_key> ADDLOCAL=All /qn
To locate the eDrawings.msi file:
On a CAD disk, browse to the file.
With an eDrawings executable file from the SolidWorks web site, right-click the executable file and extract the contents (including the eDrawings.msi file) to a folder.
An administrative image is used as a central location to install the SolidWorks eDrawings software. After administrators install the administrative image, users can run the SolidWorks eDrawings setup from the administrative image to install the eDrawings software. Administrators can also push the administrative image to another location.
Administrators install an administrative image from the command line by using the /a command line option. To get the default English install, type this at the command line:
msiexec /a eDrawings.msi
To install in a foreign language using the administrative image, you need to apply a transform file that contains all the language-specific items. For example, type this at the command line for Chinese:
msiexec /a eDrawings.msi TRANSFORMS=1028.mst
Note: See the Properties section for a list of transform files numbers for all supported languages.
This section contains an example of installation syntax plus a list of all the defined global properties and their descriptions.
Example of installation syntax:
msiexec /i "<Msi_path>"
INSTALLDIR="<path_and_folder>"
LOGPERFORMANCE=1 (or 0 (not))
REGCODE=<eDrawings_Professional_license_key>
SNLSERVER=<eDrawings_SNL_server>
TRANSFORMS=<language-specific number>.mst
ADDLOCAL=All
Note: Bold values indicate the default value.
Note: In serial number formats, the x is an alphanumeric character.
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Property |
Description and format |
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ADDLOCAL |
Specifies which portion of the eDrawings application
to install. |
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Command Line Syntax |
Feature | |
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All |
Installs all the features. The eDrawings application searches for installed SolidWorks and AutoCAD publisher applications to validate the install. | |
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eDrawingsViewer |
View eDrawings and other files. | |
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CALS |
View CALS files in the eDrawings Viewer. | |
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PublisherForAutoCADR14 |
Create eDrawings files from the AutoCAD R14 application. | |
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PublisherForAutoCAD2000 |
Create eDrawings files from the AutoCAD 2000 application. | |
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PublisherForAutoCAD2004 |
Create eDrawings files from the AutoCAD 2004 application. | |
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PublisherForAutoCAD2005 |
Create eDrawings files from the AutoCAD 2005 application. | |
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PublisherForAutoCAD2006 |
Create eDrawings files from the AutoCAD 2006 application. | |
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PublisherForAutoCAD2007 |
Create eDrawings files from the AutoCAD 2007 application. | |
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PublisherForAutoCAD2008 |
Create eDrawings files from the AutoCAD 2008 application. | |
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DXFDWGTranslator |
View DXF/DWG files in the eDrawings Viewer. | |
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Shaders |
Supply shader files if SolidWorks is not installed. | |
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XML3D |
View 3DXML files in the eDrawings Viewer. | |
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ENABLECHKFORUPDATE |
Specifies whether eDrawings should check for updates. 1 to enable updates every 30 days, 0 otherwise.
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INSTALLDIR |
Specifies the installation folder for SolidWorks eDrawings. Defined for individual installations only. |
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LOGPERFORMANCE |
Specifies whether the application should automatically email performance data to SolidWorks Corporation. 1 to send performance data, 0 otherwise. |
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REGCODE |
Specifies the serial number for the SolidWorks eDrawings application. A license key for REGCODE is only required for eDrawings Professional licenses. |
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SNLSERVER |
Enter the port@servername for your SolidNetWork License server. Use semi-colons to separate multiple port@servername combinations. A port server name for SNLSERVER is only required for the SolidWorks SNL server configuration. <list_of_ports@server_strings> is a list of strings delimited by semi-colons, each of which refers to a port number on a server with the format: xxxxx@<server_name1>; yyyyy@<server_name2>;� where x and y are single digits. After the last server in the list, do not put a semi-colon. |
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TRANSFORMS |
Contains language-specific items. See the complete list below for all languages. |
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Language |
TRANSFORMS <Number>.mst | |
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Chinese |
1028 | |
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Chinese-Simplified |
2052 | |
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Czech |
1029 | |
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French |
1036 | |
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German |
1031 | |
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Italian |
1040 | |
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Japanese |
1041 | |
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Korean |
1042 | |
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Polish |
1045 | |
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Portuguese-Brazilian |
1046 | |
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Russian |
1049 | |
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Spanish |
1034 | |
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Turkish |
1055 | |
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