We have been wrestling with the measurement feature in eDrawings 2018 for a while. We know that in order to enable measuring in eDrawings standard, the original assembly must be published to edrawings and then saved while checking the "Enable Measurement" option. The problem has become how time consuming this is for our designers.
We design and build custom machinery. When a project reaches the build phase, our builders use eDrawings to take measurements on parts and assemblies. With 2018 however, the measurement tool is disabled on all files by default. We need a way to enable measurements on all parts and assemblies of a project so we don't have to open each file one by one and publish them with measurements enabled.
Is there a way to do something like a pack n go, but instead save them as eDrawing files?
Hi Jason,
My experience and subsequent frustration with EDrawings, leads me to suggest trying using 3D PDF. (Saveas 3D PDF)
There is a measurement tool included (along with other tools) that works fine.
Edrawings is like the unwanted child that Solidworks gave birth to and should have been aborted at birth
It has so many bugs and flaky behaviour.
Colours & display states particularly are pretty basic within Soildworks.
In past times, I recommended it to clients. It was just plain embarrassing trying to explain all it's bad behaviour and problems, when they started using it, after being told it was Solidworks best and greatest solution to viewing.