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edrawings 2013 from SW 2014

edrawings 2013 from SW 2014

edrawings 2013 from SW 2014

(OP)
Our engineering group updated this week to SW2014. Our production area is running edrawings 2013. Is there a way to set SW14 to use this earlier version of edrawings when using Publish to eDrawings from the file menu?

tia, Diego

RE: edrawings 2013 from SW 2014

Nope.... You are going to need to install eDrawings 2014 on their systems.

We always update our production people to the latest version of SolidWorks or eDrawings before engineering gets the new version of SolidWorks. Keeps the issue you are having from cropping up. winky smile

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Anna Wood
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RE: edrawings 2013 from SW 2014

SolidWorks itself does of version interoperability if you have SP5 of the previous version installed. However, this interop is not available with eDrawings yet. That said, eDrawings is free. Just download the latest at any time. If you are using eDrawings Professional, it is common for licensing to be on the same timeframe as SolidWorks licensing, so as long as you have SW2014, you should be able to install eDrawings Professional 2014 too.

Matt Lorono, CSWP
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RE: edrawings 2013 from SW 2014

(OP)
Our shop computers are running on XP or later 32 bit systems, and the latest eDrawings only seems to come in a 64 bit flavor. We use eDrawings for visualizing complex weldments, which is only part of our business. So there are about a dozen computers where edrawings is used, not 40. It will be some time before the shop systems are updated to 64 bit. My current workaround is to export the weldment out of SW14 to asic as a part, import in SW13 and create an epart file. Not as elegant or useful as publishing the edrawing itself out of SW14.

thanks for your input. Diego

RE: edrawings 2013 from SW 2014

Have you tried 3dPDFs or like FCsuper said about future release support on prev sp5, you could setup SWtaskScheduler to open the 2014 files to eDrawings format with eNable Measure activated.

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