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You must have a valid license of AutoCAD® on your computer.
AutoCAD LT® is currently not supported.
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AutoCAD : R14, R2000, R2000i, R2002, R2004, R2005. [Mechanical
and MDT variants - support Open only ]. AutoCAD LT is currently
not supported.
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Win95, Win98, WinME, WinNT4, Win2K, WinXP (at least IE4 is
required).
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DWGgateway will open and save DWG files in formats from version
2.5 to version 2004 (the latest format).
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Multiple installations of R2000/MDT4, R2000i/MDT5, R2002/MDT6
on the same machine are not supported. If you have such a
combination, DWGgateway will be installed on the last version
installed or run.
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You can use the toolbar button or the menu selection to open
your DWG files. Please note that using AutoCAD's open dialog
will not use the technology in DWGgateway to open future versions
of DWG files. If you get an "incompatible file type error,"
please try to open your DWG file using the DWGgateway open
command from the DWGgateway toolbar or the DWGgateway menu.
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AutoCAD will only save back to certain DWG files formats.
In order to save to the DWG file format required, please use
the DWGgateway save command using the DWGgateway toolbar button
or the DWGgateway menu.
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PDF file creation coming soon.
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eDrawings software is a product design communication tool
for sharing accurate representations of both 2D drawings and
3D models. The eletronic data format of eDrawings files is
highly compressed to enable easily transmission via email.
When viewed with the eDrawings Viewer, these files provide
intelligent interpretation tools (3D Pointer, Virtual Folding,
Animated Drawing Views) that help the recipient easily understand
and navigate the data they receive. eDrawings files are created
through the use of the eDrawings Publisher add-in, which works
as a plug-in to popular CAD products. Once created, an eDrawings
file may be sent to anyone via email. To eliminate the frustrations
normally associated with 2D and 3D design data, the viewer
may be embedded directly in aneDrawings file. These files
can immediately be viewed by anyone with a Windows operating
system. No additional CAD software or viewers are required.
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You can publish eDrawings files from :
- SolidWorks 2005 or later
- AutoCAD version R14.x, AutoCAD 2000, AutoCAD 2002, or
AutoCAD 2004
- Inventor 8 and 9
- Pro/ENGINEER 2000i2 or 2001 or Wildfire
- CATIA V5 R10, CATIA V5 R11, CATIA V5 R12 and CATIA V5
R13
- Unigraphics V18.0, Unigraphics V17.0, Unigraphics: NX2
and NX
- CoCreate's OneSpace Designer 13.01
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Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Microsoft Windows XP Tablet
PC Edition, Windows 2000, Windows NT® 4.0 with Service
Pack 6 or later, Windows Me, Windows 98 2nd Edition are supported.
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eDrawings Viewer and eDrawings Publisher for SolidWorks and
AutoCAD support the following languages:
| Traditional Chinese |
Japanese |
| Simplified Chinese |
Korean |
| English |
Polish |
| French |
Russian |
| German |
Spanish |
| Italian |
Czech |
* eDrawings Publisher for Pro/ENGINEER and CATIA support: English,
French, German and Japanese.
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Yes, eDrawings software provides optimal tools for the tablet
pen and ink.
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Save the eDrawings file as an HTML file and add an embedded
web browser control to your PowerPoint presentation. You will
need to enable macros in PowerPoint and set macro security
to low or medium. (Tools->Macro->Security). In your
eDrawings slide, you will need to add two items: the Microsoft
Web Browser control and a button to activate it. Your button
will typically set the URL of the web browser to the location
of your eDrawings file.
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No, eDrawings software does not require any additional software
to be installed, although you will need the CAD application
in order to publish eDrawings files directly inside these
applications.
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To minimize the impact of the larger viewer size and email
virus filters, a ZIP and HTML option has been added to the
File...Send command. This option does not embed the eDrawings
Viewer in an executable file; instead it automatically downloads
it from the Internet and embeds the eDrawings Viewer in a
standard web page. Since the HTML file only contains the eDrawings
file data and a small amount of HTML code, this results in
a smaller file size than the original .EXE option.
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eDrawings Professional extends the functionality of eDrawings
Viewer to include markup and measure, and the unique ability
to publish eDrawings files as review-enabled. Publishing a
review-enabled eDrawings file is like embedding a markup pen
in your document. Recipients are able to markup and measure
the eDrawings file using the free eDrawings Viewer; they do
not need to purchase eDrawings Professional or other software
to view the eDrawings files. eDrawings Professional includes
advanced viewing capabilities such as dynamic component translation,
and dynamic cross section views. eDrawings Professional also
includes the Publisher add-in for SolidWorks®, AutoCAD®,
CATIA® and Pro/ENGINEER® users.
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Windows XP or Windows 2003 server.
500 MB of disk space
At least 512 MB RAMtleast
Pentium 4 or higher processor
Note: DWGnavigator is currently not supported on 64-bit operating systems.
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Windows XP Professional and Windows Vista (see Vista install notes below). Atleast Internet Explorer Version 4 is required. DWGnavigator is currently not supported on 64-bit operating systems.
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AutoCAD R14, R2000, R2000i, R2002, R2004, R2005, R2006 and R2007.
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DWGnavigator will open and save DWG files in formats from version 2.5 to version 2007 (the latest format).
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Right Click the file in the FileExplorer tree and select Save as DWG Version from the menu. Back to Top
The DWGeditor is a tool for SolidWorks users to edit and maintain
legacy DWG files in their native format. The DWGeditor will
be available with every seat of SolidWorks, SolidWorks Office,
and SolidWorks Office Professional.
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The DWGeditor has approximately 90% of the functionality of
AutoCAD 2000.
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The DWGeditor supports up to and including the 2004 format
of DWG files. Support for the 2005 DWG format will likely
be made available in a later service pack.
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No, Mechanical Desktop and AutoCAD Mechanical are ObjectARX
programs that run inside AutoCAD. As such, they create “custom
objects” that force users into having one of these programs
in order to read the DWG files. Please note that both of these
products can also produce “vanilla” DWG files that the DWGeditor
can edit.
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The DWGeditor is available in English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Czech, Traditional Chinese and
Simplified Chinese.
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Yes, four APIs are available:
- LISP programs are supported. Please note some existing
AutoCAD AutoLISP programs may require some “massaging” to
work with the DWGeditor. Also note that the LISP supported
is the “interpreted” LISP not the “compiled” version.
- C and C++ programs are supported. Please note that existing
AutoCAD ADS programs will require recompiling using the
SDS libraries that ship with the product. Also note that
AutoCAD ObjectARX programs are not supported.
- VB programming is supported
- Dialog box design for LISP and SDS programs are supported
via DCL (Dialog Control Language)
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The DWGeditor ships with many AutoCAD shape fonts. Any shape
font a user has for use with AutoCAD may also be added for
use with the DWGeditor.
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DWGgateway and XchangeWorks are trademarks of SolidWorks Corporation.
eDrawings and DWGeditor are registered trademarks of SolidWorks Corporation.
Autodesk and AutoCAD are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Autodesk, Inc., in the USA and/or other countries.
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