This document provides general information about the SolidWorks� eDrawings� 2010 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 2010 and open the .easm file in eDrawings, the display states might not work properly.
eDrawings with NVIDIA Quadro Graphics Drivers
For some files, eDrawings 2010 might crash when using an NVIDIA� Quadro� graphics card. If you experience such a crash, either update the graphics card driver to 182.42 or newer, or click Tools > Options, and in the General tab, turn off Graphics boost.
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 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 2010 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 2010 supports Microsoft� XP Service Pack 2 or later.
Beginning with Service Pack 1.0, eDrawings supports Microsoft� Windows 7. Note that the graphics drivers included with Windows 7 do not support accelerated OpenGL so some eDrawings features are not available. Running eDrawings on Windows 7 requires a supported graphics driver for RealView graphics.
Tablet PCs require Tablet XP Service Pack 2 or later.
SolidWorks eDrawings 2010 for Mac supports Macintosh� Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger) or later.
Service Pack 5.0
There are no version-specific notes for this release.
Service Pack 4.0
New option in the Print dialog box:
You can set the Render Model Edges as Vectors option in the Print dialog box when you require presentation quality output, for example, for a PDF document that you expect users to zoom in and out. The option is equivalent to the Normal setting in eDrawings 2009 and earlier.
Render Model Edges as Vectors is not available for selection when you are printing drawings that contain only high-quality, non-shaded views since eDrawings applies this setting automatically. The option is also unavailable for parts and assembly documents that contain elements that cannot be rendered as vectors, OLE objects, for example.
Caution: Using Render Model Edges as Vectors for large assemblies or drawings that include complex draft quality views may result in long print times or print failures if your system resources are exceeded.
If you have problems implementing vector rendering:
For drawings, remove shaded views and set the Display Style for each view to High Quality (Drawing View PropertyManager) in SolidWorks before saving or publishing to eDrawings.
For parts and assemblies, remove or hide elements that need to be rasterized, such as OLE objects, images, or stamps.
Resolved issues:
A file-specific issue where some text was missing when a SolidWorks drawing was opened in eDrawings is resolved.
A system-specific crash when using the Measure tool on 32-bit Windows XP machines with certain versions of the Intel Express chip set graphics driver is resolved.
A file-specific display issue involving relative drawing views is resolved.
A crash on opening eDrawings executable assemblies containing BOMs is resolved.
An issue on eDrawings for Mac when opening SolidWorks drawings files containing BOMs is resolved.
The End User License Agreement in the German version of eDrawings for Mac is now displayed correctly.
A file-specific crash involving detached drawings and sketch pictures is resolved.
A crash on eDrawings for Mac when opening files over an intermittent network connection is resolved.
Files with diacritic characters in their file names can now be opened in eDrawings for Mac.
Service Pack 3.0
The Help menu now includes a choice between using web-based or locally installed help files.
Resolved issues:
An appearance problem when publishing a multi-configuration part that used display states is resolved.
A crash when dragging components with the Move tool in certain legacy files is resolved.
A file-specific performance problem for assemblies with large numbers of configurations is resolved.
A display problem for arcs in DWG files is resolved.
A file-specific crash while measuring a drawing with a SpeedPak view is resolved.
A file-specific crash while opening a file is resolved.
A problem in printing some drawings to which stamps had been applied and the Print Shaded option cleared is resolved.
A file-specific problem when re-saving an EASM published from SolidWorks Simulation 2009 was resolved.
Service Pack 2.0
Service Pack 2.0 supports the AutoCAD� DXF/DWG 2010 formats.
Service Pack 1.0
Resolved issues:
To reduce problems with washed-out colors, the rendering of shaded views in drawing documents was adjusted. Model colors may now be somewhat darker or lighter.
An alignment problem with balloon item numbers is resolved.
When opening an assembly saved from SolidWorks 2009 or later, the names in the component tree now include the active configuration of each component.
An image that was erroneously installed with the sample stamp images is removed.
The file-open time is now faster for some files.
A file-specific crash when opening legacy drawing documents containing OLE items was resolved.
A crash when saving an image on certain Mac� computers was resolved.