I have embedded the EModelViewControl on a webpage to view dwg and solidworks files. It works very well when I pass the file name parameter with the mapped drive letter. Does it support UNC path for file name? I need to pass the file name like \\server\share\folder\filename.sldprt instead of Y:\folder\filename.sldprt. For some reason that is not working. Appreciated any help.
Thanks
Shaji
Thank you for the reply.
My code is pretty close to what was suggested by SolidWorks techsupport but unfortunately it is still not working.
This application is on a local intranet so, i guess, the security shouldn't be a problem.
Below is my asp coding..unc path in the format shown below is not working... any help is appreciated.
<%@ Page Language="VB" AutoEventWireup="false" CodeFile="Viewer.aspx.vb" Inherits="Viewer" %> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" ><head runat="server"> <title>Viewer</title> </head><body> <form id="form1" runat="server"> <div> <table border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td width="100%"> <object id="EModelViewControl" classid="CLSID:22945A69-1191-4DCF-9E6F-409BDE94D101" codebase="http://www.solidworks.com/plugins/edrawings/download.cfm?Release=REL&Type=WEB&Language=English#Version=7,0,0,627" lang="en-us" width="640" height="500" > <!--<param name="Filename" value="<%=Session("filename")%>" />--> <!--<param name="Filename" value="http://fgwsans01/eng/files/Data/4-100/4-100724.DWG" />--> <!--<param name="Filename" value="//fgwsans01/eng/files/Data/4-100/4-100724.DWG" />--> <param name="Filename" value="Y:/Data/4-100/4-100724.DWG" /> <param name="_cx" value="4880"/> <param name="_cy" value="8460"/> <param name="FullUI" value="1"/> <param name="EnableFeatures" value="30832"/> <!--<param name="FullUI" value="-1"/> <param name="BackgroundColor" value="11179655"/> <param name="HighlightColor" value="4227327"/> <param name="PaperColor" value="14411494"/> <param name="BackgroundColorOverride" value="-1"/> <param name="BackgroundColorGradient" value="-1"/> <param name="PaperColorOverride" value="0"/>--> </object> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </form></body></html>
looks like the msg above lost formatting..may not be easy to read. So I am posting the relevant lines again
<param name="Filename" value="//fgwsans01/eng/files/Data/4-100/4-100724.DWG" /> ' This did not work
<param name="Filename" value="http://fgwsans01/eng/files/Data/4-100/4-100724.DWG" /> ' This did not work
<param name="Filename" value="Y:/Data/4-100/4-100724.DWG" /> 'This worked but mapped drive is a problem.
I'm unable to tell what exactly might be the issue just looking at the html. Two things to note that might help you debug the issue :
1. The code in the OpenDoc API gets executed on the client side in the sandboxed browser (not on the server). So you should validate the security/access level IE is giving you by creating a simple test HTML page in the same folder as the DWG and access it via IE in the same way (UNC or http or mapped) as you are specifying in the Filename param. If that fails to open, that would indicate a permissions issue.
2. Because the eDrawings control needs direct access to the path name specified in the Filename parameter, the client browser should have direct access to the file specific in the filename. e.g. having the HTML served on a public server, but storing the files on a filestore that's behind a firewall won't work.
One more thing : IE might treat forward slashes differently than backslashes as shown in your first example - you may want to try changing that also.
Regards,
Vajrang.
Vajrang, Any difference in file name formatting between HTML and ASPX?
<param name="Filename" value="//fgwsans01/eng/files/Data/4-100/4-100724.DWG" /> worked on htm
but the same did not work when used on aspx
Thanks
Shaji
Not from an eDrawings perspective. eDrawings will simply try to open the filename using the given path/uri. Can you try doing a View->Source in the browser for the aspx ? That will show if asp.net is changing anything in the html as seen by the browser.
This just occurred to me : you could also try using the file:// syntax to prefix the filename.
Regards,
Vajrang.
ASP.NET output and test HTML looks the same. So, asp is not changing anything on the file name param. Both did not work when file:// is used. Wondering anybody is using eDrawings activex on an asp page to display drawings with unc path?
Thanks a lot. I used this code
Has anyone gotten http:// notation to work to pull a eDrawings file off of a web server? I like the posts above seem to only get it to render using the drive notation (e.g c:\drawing.eprt).
Thanks
Hi Shaji,
eDrawings supports opening of UNC filenames via the OpenDoc API as long as the hosting application (iexplore.exe in your case) allows access to the file directly via a native Win32 handle.
When eDrawings is running inside a browser, depending on which security zone the browser is rendering your HTML under (My Computer, Local Intranet, Trusted Sites, Internet, Restricted) your browser sandbox may not grant access to the UNC filepath to the eDrawings ActiveX contol.
I suggest you try : either changing the security settings of your browser to allow access to the \\server or map the \\server\path to a virtual folder under your webserver (IIS, Apache, etc.) and tell the eDrawings API to access the file using the http:// notation rather than UNC.
The latter will be somewhat slower than the first option.
Hope this helps,
Regards,
Vajrang.