Hi all,
We are using configurations in our machine designs. We have 20 EPDM viewer user and they do not have solidworks. They need to see all configurations of a machine but they can see just last saved configuration.
We must have a solution for this. I need your help.
Solidworks-EPDM 2013 sp4
I could see all the configurations with the setting but E-drawings viewer could not load up the selected configuration.
In the vault view > Display ( Pull down menu) > Options > show Bitmap for SolidWorks files.
On selection of the SolidWorks file, the preview window shows bitmap image > Right click to select configurations and then click on the bitmap again to load in e-drawings.
But this still doesn't solve the issue though ! sharing my 2 cents..
Does anyone know if this problem has been corrected yet? Strikes me as a rather fundamental issue. We are looking a getting EPDM. Have this problem already in PDM works.
Nope...still a limitation.
Our Var told me that the workaround is to set EPDM to save an Edrawing/model/asm with configurations activated on release of the model. Then you can view the different configurations apparently.
The only way for this to work is to publish eDrawing files (eprt, easm, edrw) from the SolidWorks files with the option enabled to include all configurations. Then have the user view those files instead.
Unfortunately the eDrawings viewer will not view them in the native Solidworks file itself. I'm not sure why as it does store solid bodies for each configuration as they are built. You would think we could view those but we can't.