I was absolutely stunned to discover that the 64 bit version of SW2011 would not produce zipped executables of Edrawings. My VAR told me that SW will get round to bringing back this option sometime but 3 months on and still no change.
Has anyone heard when this functionality will be restored and out of curiousity what's the problem anyway?
Eric,
I'm running windows 7 with SW 2011 SP2. I have two versions of e-drawings showing up on my system. Not sure if I downloaded a version of e-drawings 2011 before I did my SW 2011 install. From the eDrawings Professional x64 Edition, I can not save as EXE or ZIP. From the SolidWorks eDrawings application I can save as EXE or ZIP. You might want to try downloading e-drawings.
Mark
Thanks.
I don't think that's working for me. I wonder whether that's because I'm still running XP.
Yes, at the moment only the 32-bit support .exe and .zip.
I hope also the in the next SP they will support for the 64-bit version.
Seems unbelievable to me that they'd just leave out this functionality. We use it several times a week to send designs to customers and colleagues it's one of SWs most useful features.
Did your VAR give you any idea what the problem was? I would have thought you could have had the 32 bit version running inside 64 bit SW but I'm not a software engineer.
It's a knowen issue.
You have to wait for the implementation in the future release, that can be a SP or eDrawings 2012.
Report to VAR and hope.
Looks like this hasn't been fixed as of SP4.0. I wonder if the .exe and .zip files will ever come back in eDrawings (I am using the pro version with Win7x64)?
Eric,
I'm running windows 7 with SW 2011 SP2. I have two versions of e-drawings showing up on my system. Not sure if I downloaded a version of e-drawings 2011 before I did my SW 2011 install. From the eDrawings Professional x64 Edition, I can not save as EXE or ZIP. From the SolidWorks eDrawings application I can save as EXE or ZIP. You might want to try downloading e-drawings.
Mark