This document provides general information about the SolidWorks® eDrawings® 2009 releases. For more information, visit www.eDrawingsViewer.com.
SolidWorks DimXpert. Dimensions and annotations created in SolidWorks using DimXpert for parts are not shown in SolidWorks documents opened in eDrawings. They are shown in documents published to eDrawings files.
Pro/ENGINEER. Pro/ENGINEER® models can be imported with the following limitations:
Pro/ENGINEER version 16 through Wildfire2 is supported.
Parts and assemblies can be imported, but drawings cannot.
If a model uses Pro/ENGINEER family table instances, then the .xpr and .xas accelerator instance files must be present for correct results. Although these instance accelerator files are optional for Pro/ENGINEER, they are required in eDrawings. When the family table instance modifies the top level of an assembly, open the .xas file corresponding to that instance.
Colors in part files are recognized, but colors applied at the assembly level are lost during translation.
Certain Pro/ENGINEER features, such as annotations, sketches, and layers, are not imported.
Adobe Acrobat 3D. Executing 3D Capture in Adobe® Acrobat® 3D causes eDrawings to consume large amounts of memory. The problem has been reported to Adobe.
Annotations. The SolidWorks eDrawings Viewer does not support the option Always display text at the same size for SolidWorks documents (in SolidWorks, select the Options tool, and then select Detailing for the Document Properties tab). Annotation text scaling is supported for eDrawings part and assembly files published from SolidWorks. Only 1:1 text scaling is supported for SolidWorks part and assembly files opened in eDrawings.
SolidWorks eDrawings 2009 for Mac. Known issues:
Password-protected dxf/dwg files are not supported.
The Search command in the Help does not work.
SolidWorks drawings. Perspective views created in SolidWorks drawings are not shaded in the eDrawings Viewer.
eDrawings Measure. Measure is disabled for non-draft quality broken views.
System Requirements
Operating system requirements:
eDrawings 2009 supports Microsoft® XP Service Pack 2 or later.
Tablet PCs require Tablet XP Service Pack 2 or later.
SolidWorks eDrawings 2009 for Mac supports Macintosh® Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger) or later.
Documentation
What's New for SolidWorks eDrawings 2009 is now located in the Other Functionality chapter of What's New in SolidWorks 2009 under Administrative Guides.
Service Pack 1.0
Resolved issues:
Clearing the new Show latest news feed in status bar option from the General tab of the Options dialog disables the display of SolidWorks news and events.
The Save with shaded data option on the Save As dialog now works properly on Vista.
Printing performance for dwg files has been improved from the degradation first noticed in eDrawings 2008 Service Pack 3.
A file-specific printing failure is fixed.
The time required to import some large SolidWorks files with eDrawings 2009 Service Pack 0.0 is greater than that for eDrawings 2008. For Service Pack 1.0, this time has been significantly reduced from that of Service Pack 0.0.