eDrawings File Viewing and Publishing Overview
SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD tools include the powerful eDrawings collaboration tool which enables you to view both 3D models and 2D drawings in a unique email-ready format.
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When used with SOLIDWORKS drawings, the eDrawings viewer provides insight into the design using unique 3D animation between 2D views. eDrawings functionality includes the ability to:
- View SOLIDWORKS, DWG™/DXF™, 3DXML, ProEngineer®, STL, or eDrawings files
- View native SOLIDWORKS files
- View Simulation results
- View animations of SOLIDWORKS models
- Zoom, pan, rotate, section, and virtually disassemble
- Measure, mark up, comment, stamp, re-order views
- Create lightweight, email-friendly file sizes for most designs
- Password Protect Intellectual Property in eDrawings
- eDrawings® for iOS® (iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch) app—View, share, and collaborate from anywhere with the easy-to-use, email-enabled software trusted by engineers and non-CAD users worldwide and view 3D models in the real world in 1:1 scale with Augmented Reality (AR)
CAD/CAM Solution Partner Integration Overview
SOLIDWORKS Certified Gold Partners provide fully integrated applications that enable you and your suppliers to automate CAM, tooling, and inspection.
The benefits of using SOLIDWORKS Certified Gold Partner applications include:
- No data translation required—SOLIDWORKS Certified Gold Partners work directly with native SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD data so there is no need to translate or recreate design models for manufacturing
- Design updates ripple through to downstream manufacturing applications—the SOLIDWORKS CAD model will automatically update to new design changes, and changes can then be accepted by the manufacturing application
- Accuracy of design data is always maintained—the CAM application creates data by directly referencing the 3D SOLIDWORKS design model
- SOLIDWORKS Certified Gold Partners are industry-leading, mainstream CAM companies, so features, functions, ease-of-use, and quality are not compromised in order to gain fully integrated CAD/CAM
- See recent webcasts for SOLIDWORKS Certified Gold CAM Partners
3MF
If you have Microsoft® Windows® 8.1, you can print directly using the 3MF format included. Simply set the print options in the 3D Print PropertyManager and print to the 3D printer. A preview of the print bed and the model's location within the print bed lets you modify settings before committing to a 3D print job.
To access the 3D print dialog box and specify print options, click File > 3DPrint. The print dialog box that is available depends on your installed 3D print driver.
AMF
You can also export part and assembly files using the Additive Manufacturing File Format (AMF), an XML-based format designed to support additive manufacturing processes like 3D printing. In addition to the model geometry, an AMF file can contain information about the color and materials of objects for 3D printing.
