For what it's worth, I worked with the Solidworks free viewer, and it
seemed pretty powerful, although not very intuitive. After playing
around with it for a couple of hours, I was able to create narrow
sections to isolate the views I wanted. From a single 3D Solidworks
file, I was able to create front- and rear-view PDFs of different sizes
(250 KB and 150 KB, respectively), so presumably some of the original
elements were removed from the final vector files.
On 2010-10-18 13:19, Alison Craig wrote:
Jo:
According to my mechanical designer (Alex has been great - teaching me about
what I can do via AI with his SolidWorks stuff) there is pretty much *zero*
work involved for the engineers to Save As an AI file (or a DWG file if your
SoildWorks is older than the 2009 version) when they Save As to an EASM file.
Is there a company protocol that forbids saving as an AI or DWG?
If not, I highly suggest you try to get the engineer to spend an extra few
seconds getting you what the user/customer needs - maybe bribe him with some
doughnuts or muffins ;-)).
In the past, I've had to use non-vector SolidWorks images and *no one* has been
happy with the results.
Alison
Alison Craig, Technical Writer
Ultrasonix Medical Corporation
Tel: (604) 279-8550, ext 127
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Subject: RE: off topic: e-drawings, eps files, frame and pdf
Thanks everybody for lots of advice and suggestions.
We don't have access to Solidworks itself, only the 3D e-drawing (.easm)
that is supplied by the project engineer. We use the Solidworks
eDrawings Viewer to manipulate the model to get the illustration that we
need. Unfortunately, if we want to export a vector, its 'all or nothing'
- which is probably why the resulting image renders so slowly on screen.
I agree that in a perfect world the engineer would create all the
illustrations we need as 2D PDFs directly from Solidworks; or we would
have another Solidworks licence so that we could do it ourselves. In
our imperfect world, we have to make do with the eDrawing.
I've concluded its best to use a bitmap wherever possible, and a vector
only when absolutely necessary.
Cheers,
Jo
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