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Problems w/ edrawings 2007 & .dwg's

Problems w/ edrawings 2007 & .dwg's

Problems w/ edrawings 2007 & .dwg's

(OP)
Hi all,

Anybody using edrawings 2007 to view old (Autocad 2000) .dwg's?  We're trying to implement edrawings/Solidworks but the edrawings viewer is having problems viewing AutoCAD/Mechanical Desktop version 5 native .dwg's.

Any thoughts?

- Chris

RE: Problems w/ edrawings 2007 & .dwg's

How about DWGeditor?

RE: Problems w/ edrawings 2007 & .dwg's

I only have eDrawings 06 and can view ACAD 06 dwgs no problem. I have not tried other versions.

Chris
Systems Analyst, I.S.
SolidWorks 06 4.1/PDMWorks 06
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 06-21-06)

RE: Problems w/ edrawings 2007 & .dwg's

(OP)
Handleman,

The problem is we want one viewer that will view both .dwg's and solidworks files.  The other issue is that we're moving away from Pro/E, and I've batch published all our Pro/E drawings as edrawings 2007 files.  

I think it's a bug in edrawings 2007.  I have edrawings 2006 on my computer and it views the .dwg's fine.

Any other thoughts are appreciated.

Thanks.

- Chris

RE: Problems w/ edrawings 2007 & .dwg's

From the SW KB:

Question:
When opening a DWG file in the free eDrawings® Viewer, "Error reading file" displays. What does this mean?

Answer:
In most cases, this error will be shown if trying to open an unsupported version DWG file.  eDrawings®  2007 SP0 does not support opening DWG files from AutoCAD®  2007.

That was the only answer to instability when opening DWG files in Edrawings.

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP
www.scottjbaugh.com
FAQ731-376

RE: Problems w/ edrawings 2007 & .dwg's

(OP)
I contacted my reseller and she was able to duplicate the problem.  Seems like a bug, and she notified Solidworks tech support.

- Chris

RE: Problems w/ edrawings 2007 & .dwg's

Have you tried eDrawing sp1 yet?

Jason

UG NX2.02.2 on Win2000 SP3
SolidWorks 2006 SP5.0 on WinXP SP2

RE: Problems w/ edrawings 2007 & .dwg's

(OP)
Gildashard,

Yes, I am using eDrawings 2007 SP1.

- Chris

RE: Problems w/ edrawings 2007 & .dwg's

Just had a Customer complain about this to me and SW didn't nor myself can reproduce it... come to find out they are using Windows 98 machines. Which are not supported to my knowledge with the viewer.

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP
www.scottjbaugh.com
FAQ731-376

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