off topic: e-drawings, eps files, frame and pdf

[Jim Owens]

  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
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