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Change of fileformat from Edrawings 2007 to 2008?

Question asked by Thyge Baungaard on Sep 18, 2008
Latest reply on Nov 10, 2008 by Thyge Baungaard

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Hi

We have been working with EDrawing 2007 and the fileformat .EDR for some time now, and i works/worked perfect. EDrawing 2007 opens the fileformat perfectly, without breaking down. Now we have upgrated to EDrawings 2008, and when we try to open the EDrawing-file (.EDR) EDrawings 2008 breakes down.

What can be done to solve this issue? Can the fileformat .EDR no longer be used with EDrawings 2008. What can be done to solve this issue?

I would like an answer ASAP

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Anna Wood Sep 18, 2008 1:47 PM
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Can you define "Breaking Down"?

What specifically is happening when you open the eDrawing?

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Vajrang Parvate Sep 18, 2008 3:42 PM
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Hi Thyge,

We've come across a few reports of this issue. What is a perplexing is that the .EDR extension was never an official extension for eDrawings files, so we're trying to understand where these files originated from.

Could you help understand how these files were generated ?

The change in 2008 is that we now rely on the extension of the file to tell us what type it is (EPRT = part, EASM = assembly, EDRW = drawing).

In the meantime, a simple workaround is to rename the extension to EPRT/EASM/EDRW as applicable.

Thanks & Regards,
Vajrang.
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- Thyge Baungaard @ Vajrang Parvate on Sep 22, 2008 5:09 AM
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  Hi Vajrang
  
  The extension .EDR is used when EDrawings are generated automaticaly in SAP, when working with the CAD-Desktop (SAP) and SolidWorks/SAP-Integration tool from CIDEON. When an EDrawing is generated automaticly the extension .EDR is used for every filetype (EPRT, EASM, EDRW) - We only need to generate one type of file (EDR) to handle all Edrawings filetypes.
  
  We could use the extensions EPRT/EASM/EDRW, but then I have to change alot of code in SAP, so if it is possible I will rather use another extension like EDR. What can be done? Do I have to change the code, to handle EPRT, EASM and EDRW?
  
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  - Vajrang Parvate @ Thyge Baungaard on Sep 29, 2008 6:09 PM
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    Hi Thyge,
    
    I looked deeper into this issue on our side. When we made this change in 2008, we did not anticipate this kind of use of the file extensions. We do now need to rely on the file extensions to determine the file type.
    
    So I would recommend that you extend your code to the file extensions that eDrawings officially supports, so you will be guaranteed that such functionality will be tested and supported by us in future.
    
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    Vajrang.
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    - Thyge Baungaard @ Vajrang Parvate on Nov 10, 2008 6:40 AM
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      Sorry for my late answer.
      
      OK, but that only solves some of the problems. What about all the EDrawings on the Content-server with the file-extension EDR. It is not possible to update them because of version- and status-management. What can be done with them. Do we have to install Edrawings 2007 together with Edrawings 2008. It is not the solution i prefere because of an extra piece of software to maintain.
      
      It is not possible for you to release af "upgrade" that make the Edrawing 2008 able to open EDR?
      
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