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Question asked by Shane Teague on Aug 20, 2013
Latest reply on Sep 26, 2014 by Andrewop Pit

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I use edrawings to view and pring the files that our engineering department creates. Engineering has upgraded to the most current version of Solidworks and I have upgraded to the must recent version of edrawings. When ever I open an assembly drawing, the title block displays a long file path for a model name instead of the data for the cell. Is there a way to change how this is displayed? It should show a single word not a file path.

Engineering doesn't have this problem when they view in Solidworks. The problem didn't start untill the upgrade.

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Jamie Dorenkamp Sep 18, 2013 11:48 AM
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I have this same issue when I view files have you found a solution to it yet.
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- Shane Teague @ Jamie Dorenkamp on Sep 24, 2013 7:23 AM
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  I have not found a solution.
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  - Kyle Englehardt @ Shane Teague on Oct 2, 2013 4:23 PM
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    We are having this same issue at our company after upgrading to 2013.
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John Burrill Oct 2, 2013 5:08 PM
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Shane, there was an issue in edrawings 2013 SP3 where it wouldn't display some linked information in the title-block correctly. This was fixed in SP4.
If you goto Help==>About Edrawings, the dialog box that appears contains the version and service-pack information. That should tell you if you need to update your edrawings install.
You can also go into the Help menu and click 'Check for updates' and it will tell you if there's a newer service pack and give you directions on downloading and installing it.
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Shane Teague Oct 3, 2013 6:33 AM
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John, I am currently running SP4 and no other updates are available.
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- John Burrill @ Shane Teague on Oct 3, 2013 8:07 PM
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  Well, if I had to make a call, I'd say that your edrawings install has become corrupt based on the langauge of messages you're seeing. It looks like eDrawings can't retreive the property data that's supposed to populate those fields-unless you know of a location on your network that involves a "Streams" folder from which edrawings is supposed to read that titleblock data.
  Even so, I expect edrawings reads the data stored in the file and doesn't, itself try to look up every bit of information.
  It could be a file level issue where the drawings you're trying to load need to be opened and saved in SolidWorks 2012 or later (2012 is when edrawings was able to read changes in meta-data and pass them onto the titleblock without the file having been opened and resaved, if memory serves me correctly) So, you might try opening a more recent file to see if that's the case.
  Otherwise, I'd try uninstalling and re-installing the edrawings viewer-making sure that you disable your virus scanner during the process.
  To help you narrow it down, could you tell me what type of information is supposed to be in those fields in the titleblock?
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  - Shane Teague @ John Burrill on Oct 8, 2013 9:17 AM
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    I have uninstalled the 2013 SP4 viewer and installed the newest 2014 viewer.   Turned off virus scan and no change.
    
    The space on the title block, where the file path is displaying, should be blank.   The problem is only occuring on drawings that are
    Assembly Drawings.   Detail Drawings that contain a single part do not have this problem.
    
    The same titleblock is used for both Assembly Drawings and Details Drawings.
    
    The field's are for "Material Type" and "Finishing". They populate on the Detail Drawings as they should but on an Assembly Drawing they need to be blank.
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    - Deepak Gupta @ Shane Teague on Oct 8, 2013 9:23 AM
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      Shane can you upload one sample file which shows issue to test on a different machine.
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      - Shane Teague @ Deepak Gupta on Oct 8, 2013 10:38 AM
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        Not sure how to upload to the forum. Here is a link that you can download from a Pack and Go.
        
        https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B-O65a3iBS8GOUFSRTNlYW0yVDA&usp=sharing
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        Deepak Gupta @ Shane Teague on Oct 8, 2013 11:19 AM
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        Please use "advanced editor" in case you want to attach any files. Click on reply and then click "use advanced editor"
        
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        Deepak Gupta @ Shane Teague on Oct 8, 2013 11:31 AM
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        Shane both files open fine for me on edrawings 2013 SP4, so I believe it some kind of setting or installation glitch.
        
        Make sure you're running correct version of edrawings i.e. 32 bit or 64 bit based on your OS.
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Atanas Kanov Mar 14, 2014 4:46 PM
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Those are the steps that did it for me:

1.     eDrawings does not represent properly the fonts on the drawings if the windows font is enlarged.
Check to see it is set to 100%

2.    Download the correct eDrawings version
http://www.edrawingsviewer.com/ed/download.htm

Note that if the computer is 64 bit currently you have to click on “NEW: download 64-bit versions!”

3.     Install Solidworks Document Manager. When you first run e-drawings it will ask you to do so.

This is from the SolidWorks help:
SolidWorks Document Manager
Solidworks installations include the SolidWorks Document Manager, SWDocumentMgr.dll. The standalone version of the eDrawings Viewer does not include this add-on.
When eDrawings is installed on a system without SolidWorks, drawings that include elements such as custom properties and tables may not be displayed with their most current data. When you open a SolidWorks drawing, you are warned about the missing DLL and given the option to install it. If you continue without doing the download, SolidWorks drawings that rely on the software are marked with a warning that some of the content may not be up-to-date.

4. In order not to see the red warning watermark:

With a drawing open right click somewhere on the screen, go to View and uncheck item “Always Show Warning Watermark”

Hope this helps.
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Andrewop Pit Sep 26, 2014 5:39 AM
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Hello
you are welcome to this forum site
you can use long path tool to solve your problem.

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