S029876 solidworks provides this software as a free tool for people who would like to be able to view solidworks, edrawings and dwgdxf files without purchasing expensive software. Whether you are involved in commercial manufacture, purchasing, a maker or a student, edrawings viewer helps you to communicate, share and collaborate with high fidelity 3d data with an easily shareable lightweight file in its own viewer. Before we start, you should create an account and login on solidworks site. The viewer is available for windows, mac and mobile devices for true crossplatform design collaboration and communication. This free pc tool can work with the following extensions. With an edrawings executable file from the solidworks website, rightclick the executable file and extract the contents including the edrawings.
Specify that the application check for updates every 30 days, or check manually. When edrawings is installed on a system without solidworks, drawings that include elements such as custom properties and tables may not be displayed with their most current data. If you download from, even as a customer, you will be prompted to register since we cant determine your status. The latest version of solidworks viewer can be installed on pcs running windows xpvista7810, 32bit. Autodesk viewer is a free online viewer for 2d and 3d designs including autocad dwg, dxf, revit rvt and inventor ipt, as well as step, solidworks, catia and others. Solidworks edrawings viewer 2019 includes edrawings. Starting with sw2016 viewer is 64bit only they announced the last 32bit version with sw2015 and there were even limitations to what you can do with that. Delivering a rich collaboration tool set, edrawings enables everyone to speed up their design processes and get your products to market faster. In addition, edrawings viewer allows convenient viewing of native autocad files dwg and dxf and native solidworks parts, assemblies, and drawings. Installing the edrawings viewer edrawings is available as a free download. Weve always been able to enable measuring for the free edrawings viewer. This download wizard will download the edrawing viewer and optionally download edrawings publishers. Create edrawings files from your native cad package.
Download solidworks viewerbuy solidworks viewer free online solidworks viewer. The standalone version of the edrawings viewer does not include this addon. In exchange, solidworks requires that users register their copy by providing some basic information about who they are and what they are using the software for. Solidworks installations include the solidworks document manager, swdocumentmgr. Download new versions, service packs, and addins for solidworks, simulation, pdm, and free cad tools edrawings, composer player, solidworks explorer. This viewer is intended primarily for people who do not use cad software and thus do not need to publish electronic drawing files themselves. The publishers are used to create edrawings files from inside cad applications. We are also provining online training via team viewer. I also have older edrawings files that were saved with measuring enabled that still work. Sep 06, 2016 i think i should note that i add my viewer to epdm in my all user group so everyone uses edrawings to view solidworks files. Professional solidworks viewer to import and read sldprt file format. Download edrawings a free viewing and publishing application. In addition, edrawings viewer allows convenient viewing of native autocad files dwg and dxf and native solidworks.
Sep 28, 2015 the media and installation manager are only available to customers, so this is how we distinguish you from the non solidworks customer using edrawings as a free tool only. I am running solidworks standard and have been for a while. Open lightweight files with all the 3d data you need. The edrawings viewer is intended primarily for users who need to consume and understand 3d product data, but not use cad, create, or publish edrawings files themselves. As an example, the measure tool was only available in edrawings professional 2018 and older though there was one scenario where edrawings viewer could measure. Free for two of the three versions edrawings viewer and edrawings publisher. When viewed with the edrawings viewer, these files provide intelligent interpretation tools 3d pointer, virtual. Interrogate the models using the measure tool as well as move and section commands to view model internals. The edrawings solidworks viewer is intended primarily for people who do not use cad software and thus do not need to publish edrawings files themselves. If the user has administrator privileges when installing edrawings, all users on the machine can run this single copy of edrawings using their own. The viewer can work with the edrawings proprietary file format, is compatible with solidworks files, but can also be used to open autocad dwg and dxf projects. This quick tip shows the feature set in the free edrawings viewer as well as how to markup files and send the info back to the publisher.
In this article, we will explain step by step how to free download, install and license solidworks on your pc. I use the 2014 version as much as possible, but we have been creating drawings in 2016, so that isnt an option for our new drawings. Autocad viewer dwg and dxf solidworks viewer parts, assemblies, and drawings. In this viewer window in epdm, it does allow us to add multiple viewers so i added the different edrawings paths. Specify that the application check for updates every 30 days, or. The most popular versions of the solidworks viewer are 22.
The tool that enables anyone to communicate and collaborate using 3d design data to minimize errors and accelerate time to market. Free download, install and license solidworks 2020, 2019. The default filename for the programs installer is swviewer. In my opinion, the 2016 version of the viewer is not user friendly at all. This software was originally produced by solidworks corporation. Jul 14, 2010 this quick tip shows the feature set in the free edrawings viewer as well as how to markup files and send the info back to the publisher. Free design interrogation with edrawings viewer for anyone who needs to view and interrogate 3d design data.
Jul 24, 2017 the latest version of solidworks viewer can be installed on pcs running windows xpvista7810, 32bit. The viewer delivers the premier 3d viewing tool for non cad professionals. View the most popular native 3d solidworks and 2d dwg dfx formats in a single viewer. The viewer is used to view and create edrawings files and other supported file types. The electronic data format of edrawings files is highly compressed to enable easy transmission via email. Currently available solidworks versions for downloading and install are. Easily collaborate and communicate 3d product designs. The most frequent installation filenames for the program include. The software enables to measure 3d files and create section views of 3d models. Once opened, files can be saved as edrawings files for lightweight sharing.
I asked our var about this and he told me it is a known issue that would be corrected in sp2. In this video applications engineer damien murphy shows us where we can download the free solidworks 3d viewing tool called edrawings. It is also possible to convert sldprt to dwg, dxf, step, iges, obj, stl and other files formats. If the user has administrator privileges when installing edrawings, all users on the machine can run this single copy of edrawings using their own login information. With an edrawings executable file from the solidworks web site, rightclick the executable file and extract the contents including the edrawings. Now edrawings viewer 2019 has full access to the measure tool. To use the file reference checking for standalone edrawings installations, you must download and install the solidworks document manager when prompted.
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