3 Replies Latest reply on May 23, 2018 11:11 PM by Chad Huleatt

Keep e-drawings updated

Chad Huleatt May 22, 2018 2:39 AM

Our company is exploring the use of e-drawings as a partial replacement for printed drawings.

We do a lot of sheet metal work, but we don't do off line programming for the CNC brake. E-drawings are a nice because the brake operator can open the .eprt file, and make sure he is bending part correctly. We save the .eprt with all the annotations required for bending the part.

Although the brake operators can open the .sldprt files with edrawings, the annotations are much smaller and harder to read, compared to the same file saved as an .eprt.

I thought that if you publish edrawings files, they are kept in sync with the solidworks files (i.e. when you save the .sldprt, the .eprt also updates). However this is not the case.

Dose anyone know of an option that I'm missing that saves .eprt when you save the .sldprt?

Thanks, Chad

Re: Keep e-drawings updated

Peter De Vlieger May 22, 2018 4:01 AM (in response to Chad Huleatt)

Chad,

Unless I'm very much mistaken there's no standard out of the box option do that.
The only way that I know of that any eDrawings format file gets updated is by manually saving is as such (Save as).

Your best best would be a macro that would save your part not only as a .SLDPRT but also as a .eprt.

See Help with SaveAs in macro
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Re: Keep e-drawings updated

Markku Lehtola May 22, 2018 7:28 AM (in response to Chad Huleatt)

Software – SLOWorks Ky
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  Chad Huleatt May 23, 2018 11:11 PM (in response to Markku Lehtola)
  
  Thanks Markku, I now have a script to keep it updated. I was wondering if it was a standard option, without script.
  
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