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 > E-mail: alison.craig at ultrasonix.com > > > -----Original Message----- > From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at > lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Jo Watkiss > Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 2:28 AM > To: framers at lists.frameusers.com > 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 > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > You are currently subscribed to framers as alison.craig at ultrasonix.com. > > Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/alison.craig%40ultrasonix.com > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. > _______________________________________________ > > > You are currently subscribed to framers as jowens at magma.ca. > > Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com > or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/jowens%40magma.ca > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. > > __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature > database 5542 (20101018) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. > > http://www.eset.com > > > >