Electronic Redlining in SolidWorks??
Electronic Redlining in SolidWorks??
(OP)
I'm looking for suggestions on how to redline (mark up) a SolidWorks drawing electronically. Does anyone on here do red lines electronically? Is there a way to track changes (like in MS Word)? Would eDrawings be the best option for this?
Currently we use real red pens on real paper, but it's been suggested to me that this practice is archaic at best.
JL
Currently we use real red pens on real paper, but it's been suggested to me that this practice is archaic at best.
JL
Jack Lapham
Design Systems Engineer (E20)
Leupold & Stevens, Inc.
www.leupold.com






RE: Electronic Redlining in SolidWorks??
There is no way to actually track changes like in MS Word though.
Matt Lorono
CAD Engineer/ECN Analyst
Silicon Valley, CA
Lorono's SolidWorks Resources
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RE: Electronic Redlining in SolidWorks??
-Dustin
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RE: Electronic Redlining in SolidWorks??
When you say do the markups on PDFs, are you talking about electronic or by hand?
Jack
Jack Lapham
Design Systems Engineer (E20)
Leupold & Stevens, Inc.
www.leupold.com
RE: Electronic Redlining in SolidWorks??
Dan
www.eltronresearch.com
Dan's Blog
RE: Electronic Redlining in SolidWorks??
You would be able to achieve this using eDrawings and a file archive system such as PDMWorks. You would essentially have revisions of drawings, models, assemblies, and eDrawings in your folders. Of course the eDrawings would not be the same revision as the drawings, models, or assemblies but at least you would have the saved iterations of the red lines electronically.
I like Matt's approach as well by creating a layer on the drawing or annotation view.
I guess it is up to you and your company on how you want to interact with this type of process. If you have vendors outside that do not have SolidWorks but occasionally need to mark-up drawings I would try using the eDrawings method. Also if you had PDM Enterprise (PDMWorks on Steroids) this process could be built-in.
Best Regards,
Jon
Gemini CAD Solutions
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RE: Electronic Redlining in SolidWorks??
Colin Fitzpatrick (aka Macduff)
Mechanical Designer
Solidworks 2008 SP 4.0
Dell 490 XP Pro SP 2
Xeon CPU 3.00 GHz 3.00 GB of RAM
nVida Quadro FX 3450 512 MB
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RE: Electronic Redlining in SolidWorks??
I haven't used Edrawing but we have used PDF's to do mark-ups and comments.
Flores
RE: Electronic Redlining in SolidWorks??
Colin Fitzpatrick (aka Macduff)
Mechanical Designer
Solidworks 2008 SP 4.0
Dell 490 XP Pro SP 2
Xeon CPU 3.00 GHz 3.00 GB of RAM
nVida Quadro FX 3450 512 MB
3D Connexion-SpaceExplorer
RE: Electronic Redlining in SolidWorks??
For what it's worth, we have PDMWorks Enterprise.
I prefer redlining a hard copy print myself, but I need to investigate this possibility.
It sounds like eDrawings is the most likely option so far.
Thanks for the responses you guys,
Jack
Jack Lapham
Design Systems Engineer (E20)
Leupold & Stevens, Inc.
www.leupold.com
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RE: Electronic Redlining in SolidWorks??
I have done this in the past with suppliers and vendors. We upload the pdf scans into our DMS for history purposes.
Your mileage may vary....
Cheers,
Anna Wood
SW2008 SP5.0, Windows Vista SP1
IBM ThinkPad T61p, T7800, FX570M, 4 gigs of RAM
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RE: Electronic Redlining in SolidWorks??
RE: Electronic Redlining in SolidWorks??
I'll toast to that! Cheers!
Colin Fitzpatrick (aka Macduff)
Mechanical Designer
Solidworks 2008 SP 4.0
Dell 490 XP Pro SP 2
Xeon CPU 3.00 GHz 3.00 GB of RAM
nVida Quadro FX 3450 512 MB
3D Connexion-SpaceExplorer
RE: Electronic Redlining in SolidWorks??
For non-overwhelming edits--just a thing or two at a time--I normally just do a screen capture of the area and annotate it. Sometimes sketching is required over the area to figure things out, so the snapshot can be printed and sketched upon or brought into something like Sketchbook Pro or Photoshop and drawn over (helps to have a Wacom tablet for this sort of thing).
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
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