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eDrawings Image different than SOLIDWORKS

Question asked by Robert Lankford on Apr 20, 2015
Latest reply on Apr 24, 2015 by Robert Lankford

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I will attach a few pictures that should pretty much explain my issue.

We use a program that converts SW drawings to PDFs (via eDrawings) then arranges them. eDrawings is not showing exactly what SOLIDWORKS is showing, and frankly, I am embarrassed to send this to the shop. These are not the only files with issues; lots came out this way. Is there a way to keep this from happening??? I have hundreds of sheets of drawings needing to go out ASAP.

Thanks for any help/suggestions...

I might as well throw in that I am also VERY VERY dissatisfied with the new eDrawings UI.

Robert Lankford

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Andy Sanders Apr 22, 2015 9:20 AM

Just curious, why do you output PDFs via Edrawings (unless I'm misunderstanding you).

Solidworks usually does a pretty good job of outputting PDFs from itself. Does that way produce better results?

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Andy Sanders Apr 22, 2015 9:22 AM

You can also use Solidworks Task Scheduler to batch convert SW drawings to PDF.

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Robert Lankford @ Andy Sanders on Apr 24, 2015 10:13 AM

The reason we use eDrawings is it opens files MUCH faster than SW, so when converting a 20,000 part assembly to PDFs it takes less than 20 minutes vs. having to process it overnight. It works great except for some image quality issues (A lot of times HLV will look like wire frame).

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Andy Sanders Apr 22, 2015 9:20 AM
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Just curious, why do you output PDFs via Edrawings (unless I'm misunderstanding you).

Solidworks usually does a pretty good job of outputting PDFs from itself. Does that way produce better results?
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You can also use Solidworks Task Scheduler to batch convert SW drawings to PDF.
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  The reason we use eDrawings is it opens files MUCH faster than SW, so when converting a 20,000 part assembly to PDFs it takes less than 20 minutes vs. having to process it overnight. It works great except for some image quality issues (A lot of times HLV will look like wire frame).
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