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potentially outdated component, a watermark displays a warning and suggests that you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 resave 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. To select this option 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: