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Tisha Pedersen in eDrawings33 minutes ago (Show more)

I have the eDrawings 2014 Control in a Windows Form Application with C#, but cannot figure out how to change the color of the drawings displayed to black and white. I need to have a white background, with the writing and the rest of the drawing appearing in black.

James Harvey in eDrawings2 weeks ago (Show more)

Hidden layers in Solidworks *.slddrw document are not hidden in eDrawing 2017 document

I have various sketch entities & geometry that help define my sheet format etc. built into my drawing template. This geometry is on a layer that is always kept hidden except when being modified. When I publish my *.slddrw file as an eDrawing some of this geometry (shown in pink below) is shown in the eDrawing. Does anyone know how to prevent this?… (Show more)

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James Harvey (to John Pesaturo) 4 days ago (Show more Show less)

Nailed it John! I was just experimenting with it- When the layer is hidden- "Will not print" is the default message. Actually the message is, "Printing unavailable..." in my case. And with the layer hidden, the print/do not print option is grayed out, it cannot be toggled on or off. The solution is to make the layer visible, toggle…

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John Wayman in eDrawings3 months ago (Show more)

Viewing 3D CAD files on a cheap Windows Tablet

Am I missing something, or do I have to buy an expensive 64-Bit Windows tablet to enable my workshop colleagues to view CAD models? I have a cheap tablet (32-Bit) with eDrawings on it, but eDrawings files saved from 2016 won't open. Is there a solution? I can't see any tablet lasting long out there, so buying an expensive one is not a sensible… (Show more)

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John Wayman (to Chris Clouser) 4 days ago (Show more Show less)

Chris, My concern was not regarding tablet reliability, it was regarding the tablet being run over by a fork lift, or covered in weld spatter, etc. Things do seem to get knocked about in the workshop. Maybe we should make the workshop chaps buy their own tablet! Thus, spending a lot on a tablet is not desirable. I take your point about the…

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Walter Slamkowski in eDrawings1 year ago (Show more)

Large edrawing assemblies really slow and laggy

Saving large assemblies as an eassembly not working well. When opening eassembly to view assembly, it is very slow opening, and when it does open, its almost impossible to move it around screen. It moves really slow, or just really jerky. I am running Solidworks 2016. We just upgraded from 2014 about 5 months ago, and we still can not get a fix… (Show more)

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Tom Gagnon (to James Lupinek) 1 week ago (Show more Show less)

Yes to hiding (or transparency/sections/isolate/saved views & more) and yes to part NAMES. I don't believe that you can extract values from custom properties found in parts, or at least I haven't tried that. There is an interactive part list, if i recall correctly.

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Tom Hickerson in eDrawings2 weeks ago (Show more)

E-Drawings hide parts

Is there a way for the end user to be able to hide or move parts out of the way while using just E-drawings?

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Tom Hickerson (to Tom Hickerson) 2 weeks ago (Show more Show less)

Turns out the assembly was saved as an e-drawings part file instead of an assembly. When done that way you can't do anything with it in e-drawings. Do you guys use e-drawings much? Manipulating a model seems incredibly slow to me. We had to upgrade the PC's in the shop to get them to rotate at all. They are still painful at times.

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Gary Hamm in eDrawings3 months ago (Show more)

Edrawings drawing out of date

Our engineers are using Solidworks within PDM and our shop floor uses Edrawings. But many times the edrawings do not reflect the checked in solidworks drawing, Too many times the shop has worked off of outdated prints caused by edrawings not capable of doing a rebuild or get latest version, is there a way to have the Solidworks file… (Show more)

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David Nelson (to Greg Kelley) 2 weeks ago (Show more Show less)

You on PDM. Cause our shop floor uses E-Drawings and looks at Solidworks Drawings, they get the current drawings all the time. We are not on PDM.

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Atom Falcone in eDrawings2 weeks ago (Show more)

How to get a file on the iPad to open?

I put a file on google drive, go to the iPad and edrawings isn't an option when I try "OPEN IN" Seems like it should be straight forward, but of course it's not.

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Bernie Daraz (to Atom Falcone) 2 weeks ago (Show more Show less)

See if they discus the storage options on the eDrawings site, I use another app for the 3D PDF's. I don't use eDrawings on any regular basis but suggest the 3D PDF's for others that have no CAD experience.

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Travis Guthrie in eDrawings2 weeks ago (Show more)

how to find the design library

How do I find the design library? like where is the folder so I add to it Nothing comes up in the file location.

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Travis Guthrie (to John Stoltzfus) 2 weeks ago (Show more Show less)

Yup thank you just could not remember how to find it.

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Jeremy Reed in eDrawings1 month ago (Show more)

Solidworks 2017 crashes when saving eDrawings

Hello, We recently upgraded from Solidworks 2016 to Solidworks 2017 and since making the change, we have had issues where Solidworks crashes trying to save to eDrawings 2017. This has happened on a couple of the machines in offices. In one case, my coworker was unable to save an eDrawing, but I was able to save an eDrawing of his model. Now,… (Show more)

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Dennis Johnson (to Todd Blacksher) 3 weeks ago (Show more Show less)

Ya we've been working around it by opening the files in EDrawings and saving out that way. Just a pain. Hopefully it gets resolved next SP

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john fordham in eDrawings3 weeks ago (Show more)

I would like to be able to open a sldrw drawing file from windows explorer, by default, with edrawings, but when I right click on a drawing file and hit open with , edrawings is not a choice.

I used to be able to do this with SW 2015. I've upgraded first to 2016, then to 2017 sp3, and the choice of Edrawings in the open with box is not available. I've been to control panel to re install edrawings, but the program doesn't even show up there. Does any one have thoughts on this?

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Michael Marshall (to john fordham) 3 weeks ago (Show more Show less)

When you right-click, do you have a "View File" option in the flyout menu? I'm not sure if this is a PDM-enabled function or not...we use PDM, but it works with files on my Desktop. When I select that, it opens the file in eDrawings automatically. (As where Open defaults to SW.)

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