This information is specific to one or more CAD systems. See the eDrawings Functionality Matrix for availability information.
If you open either a read-only file or a file that is already open in your CAD application or another eDrawings Viewer, a message box advises you of this. You can open the file as read-only, but if you try to save changes to it, a message box appears. Click OK to close the message box, and a Save As dialog box appears. You can then save the file with another name.
eDrawings detects when the graphics data for a component may not be in sync with a later version that was modified and saved in a SOLIDWORKS assembly. When you open a potentially outdated component, a watermark displays a warning and suggests that you rebuild the part in the SOLIDWORKS software. To control the visibility of the watermark, in the graphics area, right-click and click Show warning watermark for this document only.
The eDrawings Viewer does not display all information in detached drawing documents. To display all information in a detached drawing, publish an eDrawings drawing document from SOLIDWORKS, or re-save the drawing document as a regular (undetached) drawing.
The 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.
You can open .obj files in eDrawings. Limited functionality is available with these files.
To open a file: