Measuring with edrawings viewer pro#

In the eDrawings Save As dialog, uncheck the Enable measure box.

Uncheck the Okay to measure this eDrawings file box.

This can be accomplished using File>Save As in either SolidWorks or eDrawings. To disable measurement, the file must be saved as EPRT/EASM/EDRW with measure disabled. When native SolidWorks files are opened in eDrawings, they are inherently measure-enabled. But the reverse is not true once an eDrawings file is saved as measure-disabled, all of its descendant files will be measure-disabled. If a measure-disabled eDrawings file falls into the wrong hands, they won't be able to use eDrawings to extract measurements from this file.Ī measure-enabled eDrawings file can be re-saved as a measure-disabled eDrawings file. In other words, the Review Enabled and Measure Enabled icons must both be shown before the Measure tool can be used.Īn eDrawings file can be made non-measurable in order to protect the details of a design.

Measuring with edrawings viewer pro#

The Measure tool will be enabled only if the file is measure-enabled (the document property), and a Pro license is present (as described above). the pencil) on the eDrawings status bar indicates the presence of a Pro license. the measuring tape) on the eDrawings status bar indicates the document property.

A Pro license can be checked out from a SolidNetwork License (SNL) server.

A Pro license can also be conveyed inside the file.

This Pro license is inherent in eDrawings Professional.

The eDrawings viewer must have a Pro license.

The file must be measure-enabled (this is a document property).

The ability to measure in eDrawings requires two things:

We're working on improving the documentation for this topic, so your feedback on the information presented here would be helpful to us. This post is an attempt to clear up some confusion regarding whether or not a given document can be measured in eDrawings.