IntroductionWelcome| 00:00 |
(MUSIC).
Hi.
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I'm Gabriel Corbett and welcome to Up and
Running with eDrawings.
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eDrawings is a free, downloadable viewing
software, to view, print, and review, all
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types of 3D and 2D files.
In addition to the native eDrawing
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formats, the viewer allows convenient
viewing of supported AutoCAD, DWG, and DXF files.
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The eDrawings viewer compacts large,
complex assemblies down into small digital
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files that are easy to view and easy to
send via email.
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The software is free and is available on a
variety of platforms like PC, Mac, and iOS.
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So let's get started with Up and Running
with eDrawings.
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| Using the exercise files| 00:00 |
If you're a premium member of the
lynda.com library, you have access to the
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exercise files used throughout this
course.
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These files can be found on the Exercise
Files tab on the main course page.
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When you save the files, save them to the
desktop or some place that's easily accessible.
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Go ahead and open that folder.
And you'll see the chapters for the course.
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I'm going to open Ch1.
You'll see the corresponding files listed
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in the folder.
These files can be opened with a PC, a
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Mac, or the iOS.
If you want to create your own eDrawing
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files, you will need SolidWorks installed,
and that only installs on a PC.
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If you don't have access to the Exercise
Files, you can download samples from the Internet.
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(SOUND) If you go to
edrawings.geometricglobal.com, click on
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the Gallery tab, you can download various
sample files from there.
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Additionally if you go to the eDrawings
website, you can click on the Samples tab
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to download assets from SolidWorks or
click on Products and go over here from
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eDrawings for Mac to download the Mac
samples.
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Click on this, download 'em, and you
should be good to go.
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Additionally, you can follow along with
your own assets.
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So let's get started.
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1. Getting StartedSaving an eDrawings file| 00:00 |
SolidWorks eDrawings is a powerful 3d
data, viewing and annotating program.
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With one click of the mouse, a Solid Works
user, can save a single file that can
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contain complex assemblies, and can
compress that file down, to a size that's
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easy to work with, and easy to email.
Saving out an e-drawings file, couldn't be
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any simpler.
First off, notice this assembly here is
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made up of multiple sub assemblies and
multiple parts.
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There's a lot of different hardware in
here.
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It's a pretty complex assembly.
I've got a whole hardware folder and a lot
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of components.
And this is a lot of components all saved
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on the hard drive across multiple
locations.
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When I save on an eDrawing, it's going to
compress it all down to one file.
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First off, go up to File, go to Save As,
and it lets you save as, instead of
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assembly, make sure you choose eDrawings.
There's a couple of options when I'm
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working with e-drawings, one of them is
okay to measure the e-drawing file.
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It's really important cause if you're
working with other people, you want them
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to have the ability to see and measure and
be able to comment on your files in the future.
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So click on that, and same thing with
export XTL.
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There's a lot of 3D printers in the world
now and 3D printing is becoming very, very popular.
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So if you give them the option, they can
save out a file to SGL, and that's perfect
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for importing into a 3D printer
environment.
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Click OK, and we have that other option of
adding a password if we want to.
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When you're ready, go ahead and save it
into the correct folder and click on Save,
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and that's it.
We've got an eDrawings file that's
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available to email.
It's one small compressed file.
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I'm going to go ahead and take a look at
that file, under chapter one, and there it is.
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It's 1.2 megabytes whereas this eDrawing
folder, if I take a look at that folder, properties.
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You can see it went from 18.8 megabytes
down to a 1.2 megabyte file, and that's
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one individual file versus all these files
you might see in this assembly that go and
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make up that engine assembly.
I also wanted to point out that eDrawings
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is not only for SolidWorks.
In fact, there is several different
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applications that can publish to the
Edrawings format.
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Notice if you're at the downloads, free
downloads version, we can download for
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SolidWorks, Autocad, Catia, ProEngineer,
Inventor, Unigraphics, Solid Edge, and
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even Google Sketchup.
Once you've created an eDrawings file,
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using either Solid Works or any of the
other available CAD applications, you can
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open it using the eDrawings Free Viewer to
open, share, collaborate and email.
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Leverage the power of a simple interface
in Free Viewer to review and collaborate
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on your designs.
With simple tools for annotating,
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measuring and commenting, eDrawings is a
perfect tool for working with a team of
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users in reviewing your design, and you
sure can't beat the price.
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| Installing eDrawings on a PC| 00:00 |
eDrawings is a lightweight viewing and
commenting application that can be
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downloaded for free from the Internet.
The software can be installed on Windows,
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Mac and iOS.
All of the various versions have the same
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basic features.
However, some of the systems are easier to
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work with than others.
For instance, the iPhone version is cool
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for showing off your latest designs to
friends.
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However, it's not so optimized for a
complete designer view.
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Let's start by downloading the program.
I'm at www.eDrawingsViewer.com.
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And at the top of the screen you'll see
tab for Free Downloads.
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Click on that.
Now, eDrawings is available for many
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softwares, from Solidworks all the way
down to Google Sketchup.
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We just want the eDrawings viewer only.
Click on this radio button and come down
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to the bottom of the screen and click on
Next.
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I'm going to choose English, but if you'd
like to choose a different language, you
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can select it here.
Go ahead and click on Yes and download the software.
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Confirm that you've read the statements
and accept the agreement and continue.
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The bottom of your screen or wherever your
software will be downloaded at, you're
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going to see eDrawings full version, 65
megabytes about.
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And, I'm going to go ahead and save as.
And I'm going to go ahead and put it here
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on my desktop, and click on Save.
And then I'm going to go ahead and view
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the downloads.
See it there.
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And go ahead (SOUND) and click on yes.
It's going to open up, and go through the
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install process.
Click on next.
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right here I can install using a license
key for eDrawings Professional, if you
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have one.
You can also download a 15-day free trial
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from eDrawings Professional on their web
site.
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Or you can use your SolidWorks license key
as well.
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If you don't have it, just go ahead and
click on next and you'll get the free
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version of the software.
Okay, you can choose where you'd like to
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install it at.
I'm going to leave the default location
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and click on next.
And go ahead install.
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Okay, so the Solidworks eDrawings 2013
just installed and we have a couple
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options here.
One is we can enable performance logging.
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That'll send some information back to
SolidWorks to kind of monitor how things
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are going with the software.
You have the choice of turning that on or not.
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And then down here you can check for
updates as well as relates notes.
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And, go ahead and start the application.
So I'm going to go ahead and click on finish.
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(SOUND) And that's going to launch us into
eDrawing 2013.
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We can just go ahead and we can register
later or we can register now.
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We'll just go ahead and do that later.
And that should open this application up
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(SOUND) and I can make it full screen.
eDrawings is easy to download and easy to install.
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It makes a great way to collaborate with
customers, vendors, and your own team.
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By compacting complex assemblies into a
single small file, it makes quick work of
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sending files via email and doesn't affect
the original design.
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| Installing eDrawings on a Mac| 00:00 |
eDrawings is a lightweight viewing and
commenting application that can be
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downloaded for free from the internet.
The software can be installed on Windows,
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Mac, and iOS.
All the various versions have the same
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basic features, however, some of the
systems are easier to work with than others.
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For instance, the iPhone version is cool
for showing off your latest designs for
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friends; however it's not so optimized for
a complete designer view.
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Let's start by downloading the program.
I'm here at www.edrawingsviewer.com.
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And, if you click at the top, it's free
downloads.
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Click here.
And, these options here are for the PC
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version, so I actually need to go over
here to the right, and find eDrawings for Mac.
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Go ahead and click on that.
And I have two options.
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I can download the eDrawings' viewer for
Mac, as well as download some sample files
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that work purely on the Mac side.
If I download the sample files from the PC
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side, they're .exe files and those are not
compatible on the Mac.
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First let's download the eDrawings for
Mac.
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Click on that.
That's going to quickly download, and as
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soon as it does, I can come up here and
click on my downloads, grab the file.
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And let it install.
Okay.
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As soon as that pops up I can go ahead and
pull up my Applications folder and just
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drag the eDrawings icon right into the
applications and let that install.
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As soon as it installs, I can come down
here Find the eDrawing's install.
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It's right there.
Go 'head and double click on it and click
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on Open.
I'll close this right now.
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And I'm going to go ahead and register
later.
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And as soon as it opens, it asks me for a
item to open, and I have one right on the
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desktop, 1.3-EASM.
Click on that.
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Click on open.
And, it fires up with that file open.
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And I'm just going to expand it out to a
full window.
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You can see I've got a model of a engine
here that we're going to take a look at in eDrawings.
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And, here's a basic interface we'll be
covering in a future movie.
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One difference here that I wanted to point
out in eDrawings is the main menus don't
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show up automatically.
You have to click on this little i down
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here at the bottom of the screen.
To get the fly out menus and all the
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different exploded views, move components,
mark up, measure, stamp, and cross section
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views that are available in the full PC
version.
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eDrawings is easy to download and easy to
install.
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It makes a great way to collaborate with
customers, vendors, and your own team by
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compacting complex assemblies into a
single file.
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It makes quick work of sending files via
email and does not affect the original design.
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| Opening eDrawings| 00:00 |
Okay.
So someone sent you an eDrawings file.
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Now what?
So if you don't have eDrawings installed,
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go back and watch the first few movies on
how to install the application.
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If you have SolidWorks on your computer,
you're in luck, since most of the time
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eDrawings installs automatically.
There are three different types of
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eDrawing files.
The assemblies, parts, as well as the
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drawing files.
However, eDrawings can open SolidWorks
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native files, as well as AutoCAD.
Let's take a look.
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The native eDrawing files are the EPRT,
eAssembly and eDrawing.
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That's a part, an assembly, and a drawing.
Under the Solidworks platform we have
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solid parts, assemblies and drawings.
And under Autocad we have DWG's and DXF
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files we can open.
To get the application started, let's go
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back to the desktop, double-click on the
icon.
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(SOUND) We can always register later if it
asks us.
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(SOUND) And, now we're in the application.
Click on the Open icon and under Exercise
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files, Ch1.
Just go ahead and select 1.4 and select
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that file.
So this is an eDrawings assembly that
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opens up.
And this is a, engine file that we're
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going to be using throughout the course.
The key benefit of using eDrawings to open
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files is it has multiple platforms that it
can open, and we can share data between
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multiple systems like PC, Mac, or even
iOS.
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Also, it's one small file type that's easy
to open and easy to email.
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The eDrawings program can open many types
of 3D and 2D data, and provides a great
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way to collaborate across multiple
platforms.
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| Touring the interface on a PC| 00:00 |
The eDrawing's interface is made up four
main sections.
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From the top we have the ribbon.
On the left side we have access to the
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component tree and the annotation types
and on the bottom we have the status bar.
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The center we know is our model.
We have full 3D control.
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There's several buttons on the top of the
screen for moving the model around
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however, they're also available on your
mouse.
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To get started, let's push center mouse
button down and hold it.
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And then move your mouse from the
left-hand side or the right-hand side of
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the screen to rotate the model.
You could do the same thing by moving it
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up and down to rotate the model around.
That's again just by holding down the
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middle mouse button.
If you scroll with the middle mouse
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button, it zooms in or out of the model.
If you hold down the Ctrl key on your
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keyboard while holding down the middle
mouse button, it allows you to pan the
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model left or right, okay?
Those same tools are available at the top.
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So I can click on Zoom To Fit, which just
makes the model fullscreen.
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I can click on Zoom To Area, which allows
me to zoom in on a section I'm interested in.
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And so when I let go, it zooms in there.
To click on the zoom tab here it allows me
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to slide the mouse up or down the screen
to do a zoom just like I could if I was
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using the scroll button.
Rotate same thing this is just hold down
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the left mouse button and the model will
move around in the 3D view pan.
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Same thing.
Hold down the mouse button, And sometimes
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you'll see if your graphics card is trying
to catch up with it Sometimes it won't
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show the entire model.
It will just show a piece of it while it's moving.
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As soon as you let go, it will show the
entire model again.
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I have the ability to shade the model if
I'd like, or I can turn it into wire frame.
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Turn that on and off, and I can view it as
a perspective if I want to.
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Turn that off.
os back to the select button, just click
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here, so we're going to go select items on
the screen.
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And if you've moved the mouse around,
you've moved the model around in the screen.
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If I want to go back to my original state,
I can click on home, which takes us right
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back to where we were when we opened the
model in the beginning.
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Over here on the left if you don't see
this you can always click on this little
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icon here that's a fly out.
So, make sure that's out.
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The very first section here is the tree
and this shows all the different
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assemblies and the parts that build
(INAUDIBLE) these assemblies.
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If you see a little plus next to an
assembly click on the plus and it'll
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expand it and show you all the parts below
that assembly.
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The next section down Is our
configurations.
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In this case we don't have any
configurations so they're not shown, but
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if they were, they'd be listed here one
after another.
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Following that is your basic views.
So, if I want to click in an isometric
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view, it'll spin it around, front view.
Right view, back, top, left, and bottom.
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And by the way, up here at the top of the
screen, I have all those views available
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as well, by clicking on play, and it just
cycles through those different views.
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So I click on Play.
It's a great way to kind of present your
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design without having to click a lot.
Or move things around.
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It just automatically loops through the
different views, one after the other, on
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your screen.
As soon as you're done with that, you can
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just click on Stop, and it will pause it
right where it's at.
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Back to the tree over here.
I click on Markup, which is a little pen,
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or pencil.
It gives me all the different comments we
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will see, which we're viewing in feature
movies, and gives me all these tools for
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commenting on the model.
Measure, pictures, annotations, clouds,
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and some graphics stuff like lines.
Rectangles, circles, and splines.
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Below that is the measure command, so I
can activate the measure and I can select
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the different tools here, which we'll
cover in a future movie.
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As well as the stamp commands, what gives
me a variety pack of different stamps I
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can use to stamp this model.
This works both on the assembly levels,
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part levels, as well as drawings.
Down here at the bottom of the screen,
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just gives us a little heads up
information.
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Tells us we're knee drawings.
This little icon here says it's review
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enabled, and the one next door is measure
enable.
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And those two things that we have to
enable when a file is actually saved out
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from SolidWorks, or from a different
software (no period) We have to make sure
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we give access and people the ability to
actually measure the model.
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eDrawings has a great set of tools for
reviewing models and separating the model
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into the parts that you're interested in.
The basic tools are available in all
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versions of the software, and across the
different platforms.
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However, the tools show up slightly
different between, Mac, PC, and iOS.
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| Touring the interface on a Mac| 00:00 |
This movie is going to cover the basic
between the PC version of your draws and
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the mac version.
Most buttons happen to be the same between
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the two.
They just happen to be a little bit
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different on locations, and couple of them
are hidden.
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On top of the screen, I've got my basic
navigation tools.
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I've got select.
I've got home.
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I'm got zoom fit, zoom in, and zoom out.
Those things rotate pan are all available
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on your mouse.
Zoom to Fit is if I have this thing out in
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space, somewhere else, and I want to bring
it in, I click on Zoom to Fit.
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Brings it up full screen on my model.
Zoom toArea, I can just drag our little
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rectangular box around, and it zooms into
that area.
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Zoom In and Out allows me to move the
Mouse up and down by holding down my Left
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Mouse button to zoom the model.
All three of those are also available just
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on your mouse.
If I turn that off, if I scroll allows me
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to zoom in and out on my Mouse.
If I hold down my Middle Mouse button, it
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will ask you to rotate around, and if I
hold down Ctrl key, it allows me to pin
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them all right and left or up and down.
If i want to actually look around all the
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different views of this model,in a kind of
animated movie, I can click on Play or
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Next and click on Play, it cycles through
the various different front, side, right,
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top, bottom view of the models so I can
easily see what's going on with the model
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without even having to use your mouse.
It's pretty handy.
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Once you get to a state you're happy with,
you can go ahead and click on stop.
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And stop right there.
I'm going to rotate this around a little
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bit more.
And then I'm going to play with this move
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command you see at the top of the screen.
If I click on move It goes ahead and
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brings us into the window, and it flies
out this window on the side.
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I can grab a component like this and I can
drag it up, and I can drag other
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components if I'd like to, as well.
I could drag everything out of this model.
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Different versions of the files and such.
Each one of those components I have the
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ability to go and select any one of these
different buttons.
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I can click on XYZ, rotate.
I can click on pan and this will allow me
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to rotate around in various different
increments.
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I type in, like, 5 degrees, go to plus or
minus.
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Under the pan side I can type in how far
I'd like to increment that, or move that
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part and I can change it in the X, Y or Z
components.
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Or, back of the original XYZ move, I can
click on any one of these hoops, to rotate
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the part around.
Or translate it up or translate it down,
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the component tree on the left shows all
the components that go ahead and make up
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this assembly and I can scroll up and down
seeing the various components and if you
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look here there is lot of errors either be
facing to the right or facing down and I
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can expand out the sub assemblies by
clicking on them and I can drag this
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little window over little further so you
see everybody.
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Can see these are components make it up
and underneath each one of those little
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subassemblies are all the components that
build that assembly as well.
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Okay?
So, if I pick on any one of these things
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it highlights it and shows the move triad.
Under exploded view I could see exploded
| | 02:43 |
views if they are available on that model.
They would had to been created inside of
| | 02:47 |
Solid Works as explode views first which
then come into the eDrawing's viewer.
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Move Components we just saw.
Mark Up is where any kind of comments are
| | 02:54 |
going to be placed.
So for instance, I place a comment here
| | 02:57 |
and I double click on it, it'll show me
where that comment actually is.
| | 03:00 |
If I wanted to add more comments in the
future, I could say click on an item,
| | 03:04 |
place it over here, and it says change
material.
| | 03:09 |
I'll probably get a little more in-depth
comment but that'll just illustrate what
| | 03:11 |
we're trying to say here.
Click OK, and that comment Will show up in
| | 03:15 |
the Drawing view, as well as part of this
comment here.
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If I happen to move this assembly around
separately, I can use one of the other
| | 03:21 |
comments to add something.
And whatever I write, check, click OK, and
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it will show up as Comment2 under my name.
I can click on any one of these comments,
| | 03:30 |
and it'll rotate them all back to the
existing state it was when I made the last comment.
| | 03:34 |
Again, if I click on the other one, it
rotates and shows the comment.
| | 03:38 |
The Measure command allows me to activate
measure and measure from one part of the
| | 03:41 |
assembly over to another face of it and it
just displays the distance between the two.
| | 03:46 |
I can change the distance and angle and i
can also turn on the section filters to
| | 03:49 |
select faces ,edges, points and holes.
Stamp allows me to put a approved stamp or
| | 03:54 |
a draft stamp some where on the
model,keeping in the mind.
| | 03:57 |
If i do have to stamp a model it is
permanent once i save the model and then
| | 04:00 |
cross section is the last one I want to
see here.
| | 04:04 |
And I'm just going to go ahead and click
on home first, so that's going to put the
| | 04:06 |
whole model right back together.
So anytime you pull the components apart
| | 04:10 |
with move, home will put it all back
together.
| | 04:12 |
And then I can turn on activate cross
section, and depending on the plane I
| | 04:15 |
choose, I can pick one of these and then
in the model view I can turn on rotate and
| | 04:18 |
I can spin that around.
Actually see right inside that model
| | 04:23 |
what's going on.
Turn off rotate, I can drag that plane
| | 04:25 |
anywhere across that model to view it.
The option just flip between the different
| | 04:30 |
XY, YZ or XC plane.
I can flip the direction that's being cut
| | 04:33 |
by, come over here to the model, spin it
around that's cutting from other direction.
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I can show or hide that plane and I can
show an end cap or I can leave those caps
| | 04:41 |
being hollow.
The key difference between Mac and PC are
| | 04:45 |
pretty slight, but their buttons are in
different locations.
| | 04:48 |
One of the biggest things here is this
hidden fly out window which is activated
| | 04:51 |
by this little eye icon.
Click on the eye it pops up without that
| | 04:54 |
it flies in.
I can expand out the window and anytime if
| | 04:58 |
I need to grab that fly out, pops up and
then I have the access side of model over here.
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e Drawings has a great set of tools for
reviewing models and separating the model
| | 05:06 |
into various parts you're interested in.
The functionality between the PC version,
| | 05:10 |
the Mac version, and even the iOS version,
is pretty much the same.
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The buttons might be in a few different
locations, and there might be a few hidden
| | 05:16 |
flyout menus, but other than that they
work the same, and they're a great way to
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collaborate between multiple platforms.
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2. Design ReviewNavigating the model| 00:00 |
eDrawings has many tools for reviewing,
moving and presenting 3D CAD data or 2D
| | 00:03 |
drawings, The ribbon bar at the top of the
screen contains the main navigation buttons.
| | 00:09 |
We have the ability to rotate, pan, zoom
and section the model.
| | 00:13 |
These buttons are available in the ribbon,
and additionally, some of these buttons
| | 00:16 |
are available as mouse buttons or
commands.
| | 00:18 |
If we move down the middle mouse button,
as a review, we can spin the model.
| | 00:22 |
We can zoom by scrolling in and out, and
we can take a look at different items.
| | 00:28 |
For instance, if I want to see this
component here, I can use the zoom to area.
| | 00:32 |
I can make a little box around it.
I'm just going to click on the left hand
| | 00:35 |
corner, drag it down to the bottom right
hand corner, and as soon as I let go, it
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zooms into that component.
Now if I click on that component, if I go
| | 00:41 |
back here to select a component, notice it
highlights it here on the screen.
| | 00:45 |
It also highlights it over here in the
tree.
| | 00:47 |
You can save that component which is
3.5-1, is a member of this 3.0-1 assembly.
| | 00:54 |
And that's a part of 1.4 sub assembly.
If I want to move this component around, I
| | 00:59 |
can zoom in, zoom out.
And I have the ability to move right here
| | 01:02 |
at the top of the screen, so click on
Move.
| | 01:05 |
And, I've got several different ways I can
do this.
| | 01:07 |
One is I can just type in the numbers, the
distance that I'll want to move.
| | 01:10 |
Or, I can click on the different arrows to
drag a component out of the model.
| | 01:15 |
And there happens to be two of these on
top each other.
| | 01:17 |
So I can drag either one of those out, for
two different versions, and you can see,
| | 01:20 |
the other components stay where they're
at.
| | 01:23 |
I can also take one of these components
and I can rotate it around, and I can grab
| | 01:27 |
any one of those different triads to drag
and rotate this model around to different orientations.
| | 01:33 |
So you see, the first component that was
there didn't move.
| | 01:35 |
This one is.
I can also pick that component to move
| | 01:37 |
that component.
Same thing.
| | 01:40 |
So I've got 3 different rotation axis as
well as 3 different axis I can drag the
| | 01:44 |
component in.
I can click on the different modes here as well.
| | 01:47 |
Click on freed drag to just drag it freely
around the screen.
| | 01:51 |
I can use the triad again.
I can click on the different delta modes.
| | 01:55 |
So if I type in a number, so like say 5.
And I say x.
| | 01:59 |
It moves it 5.
Fortunately it moved it outside of the
| | 02:02 |
screen we can see, but I can also move
that back, you can see it moves it by
| | 02:05 |
clicking here.
The delta means a change, so how far do I
| | 02:10 |
move and why?
Click on you see it will move somewhere
| | 02:13 |
outside of the screen if you move it too
far, moved up here, and same thing in z.
| | 02:18 |
So I can move that across the screen.
So that makes it easy to move it in
| | 02:22 |
increments that are manageable so you can
understand where they are.
| | 02:25 |
Next I can click on the configurations.
In this case, we don't have a
| | 02:30 |
configuration, so we only have our default
state.
| | 02:33 |
However, if we had several different
configurations, we'll see them listed here.
| | 02:36 |
And we'll see that in future movies.
Next, it's going to be the different views
| | 02:40 |
that are avialable to us.
Click on a different view, move the entire
| | 02:42 |
model around so we can see it.
At any point in time, if your model gets
| | 02:45 |
out of control and you have components
that are out in space, I can always click
| | 02:48 |
on the home key to bring everything back
to the original state when we started with
| | 02:52 |
the model.
If I want to look at an individual part
| | 02:55 |
outside of the model, I can right click on
that part.
| | 02:58 |
So for instance, this part here I'm
interested in and if I right click on it,
| | 03:01 |
I can either hide that component, make it
transparent, I can hide others or I can
| | 03:05 |
show all.
So in this case, I want to hide others.
| | 03:10 |
What that does is makes everyone else in
this model hidden so I'm only looking at
| | 03:12 |
this one individual component so I can
still spin thing around like I did before.
| | 03:17 |
I can zoom in.
I can check out this component and see
| | 03:19 |
what's going on, and you notice over here
on this tree, all the other components are
| | 03:22 |
now hidden.
If I right click, I can go back and show
| | 03:27 |
all and bring them all back.
Makes a nice easy way to do that.
| | 03:32 |
Additionally, if I right click on this
again, I can say new part document.
| | 03:36 |
What that allows me to do is take that one
individual part, and make a new e-drawing
| | 03:39 |
of only that part.
There it is, and I can take that file now
| | 03:43 |
and click on Save.
And I can go ahead and save that out if I want.
| | 03:47 |
I'm not going to, but just showing you can
select a name, save it out and then you
| | 03:49 |
have a separate e-drawing file that you
can open up and work with.
| | 03:53 |
eDrawings is a tool for reviewing complex
assemblies or individual parts.
| | 03:57 |
There are all sorts of ways to easily move
the model around and review and present
| | 04:00 |
this design.
Additionally 2D drawings can be reviewed
| | 04:03 |
and imitated/g.
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| Measuring the model| 00:00 |
One of the key tasks in reviewing design
is the ability to measure the various
| | 00:02 |
components to make sure all the parts fit
together and there's no potential issues.
| | 00:07 |
When an Edrawing is created, there's an
option to allow measuring of the model for review.
| | 00:11 |
Therefore, most models will generally be
able to measured.
| | 00:14 |
However some will not allow this.
With the Measure command active, we can
| | 00:17 |
measure from face to face, edge to edge,
or point to point, plus any combination of those.
| | 00:21 |
You can see this model I have open, which
is 2.2.1, and over here on the left I can
| | 00:26 |
click on the component window.
And come down here to measure and I can
| | 00:31 |
activate the measure.
I have my cursor is now a little measuring
| | 00:34 |
tape with a little ruler on it.
And I can select the different selection
| | 00:37 |
filters here.
So, the first one is face measure, the
| | 00:40 |
next one is edges, the next one is points
or vertexes, and the next one is holes.
| | 00:45 |
This text box down here will have the
different items we have selected.
| | 00:49 |
And I can choose the units I'd like to be
in, as well as the angle of measurements.
| | 00:53 |
So under distance units I can choose
Millimeters, Centimeters, Meters, Inches,
| | 00:56 |
Feet, Feets and Inches.
I'm just going to back to Inches and then
| | 00:58 |
I'm going to a Results panel right here.
So first thing is I'm going to go in here
| | 01:01 |
and I'm going to click on this face here.
(SOUND) And I'm going to hold down my
| | 01:05 |
middle mouse button and rotate the model
around.
| | 01:08 |
Go ahead and select this face here.
And that's going to say hey, these two
| | 01:11 |
items are parallel and the normal distance
between the two is 3.125 inches.
| | 01:15 |
If you're done measuring those, just click
anywhere outside of the model and I'll
| | 01:18 |
clear out those boxes.
And I can do it again.
| | 01:20 |
I can click on the top here, rotate the
model around, pick on a face down here and
| | 01:23 |
again it gives you the measurement.
Now that's face to face measuring.
| | 01:28 |
If I instead go and I click on Edges it
gives me the ability to click on an edge
| | 01:31 |
itself and click from edge to edge and get
a measurement.
| | 01:35 |
And it'll give you a line that gives you
heads of display exactly how far you're
| | 01:38 |
measuring from edge to edge or if I turn
them both on I can measure from a face to
| | 01:41 |
an edge.
It's going to give me the information as
| | 01:45 |
well and I can also add in vertexes.
And so now I can go up from a point and a
| | 01:49 |
corner to a point on a corner.
And it's going to give me a measurement
| | 01:54 |
both in z, x and y.
If you had it in a distance in the
| | 01:58 |
diagonal, and then finally holes.
So if I click on a hole and I zoom in on a
| | 02:02 |
hole, for instance this one up here, it
will give me the diameter and center point
| | 02:06 |
of that hole and a lot of good (UNKNOWN)
information.
| | 02:10 |
As well as measuring, we also have the
ability to do mass properties.
| | 02:13 |
It's not on the same window.
It's actually up here the top but if I'm
| | 02:16 |
working on a model and I'm curious to see
how much ways I can turn this actually off
| | 02:19 |
and rotate around and go here to Mass
properties.
| | 02:23 |
(SOUND) What Mass Properties gives is, one
is exactly how much things is going to
| | 02:25 |
way, assuming that who ever created this
model in the beginning, use the correct materials.
| | 02:29 |
For instance, in this case, this is
aluminium with brass inserts and stainless
| | 02:32 |
steel screws.
So as long as whoever created the model
| | 02:35 |
originally, assigned the correct materials
to the different parts.
| | 02:38 |
This will give us an actual accurate
measurement of the different components,
| | 02:41 |
and it's going to give us the density of
what we have here.
| | 02:43 |
So it's saying the density of this
component I'm selecting is 0.11 pounds per
| | 02:46 |
cubic inch, and a mass of this, and this
is the different volumes in cubic inches
| | 02:50 |
or surface area.
So it's really handy information you can
| | 02:53 |
pull out, and you can also choose the
different measurement units for putting
| | 02:55 |
together a model.
Click OK, and we're good to go there.
| | 03:00 |
Checking dimensions and fit tolerances is
one of the most important aspects of doing
| | 03:02 |
a design review.
The tools in SolidWorks eDrawings makes it
| | 03:06 |
easy and fast.
| | 03:07 |
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| Working with configurations| 00:00 |
Configurations in SolidWorks allow the
designer the ability to build a variety of
| | 00:03 |
similar assemblies using the same part, as
well as the ability to turn off the
| | 00:06 |
various features or parts.
Think of it like shopping for a car.
| | 00:11 |
Even though you know what you want, there
are still various trim options that are available.
| | 00:15 |
For example, if you're looking for new
Ford Mustang you can get the same car with
| | 00:19 |
either 5.0 V8, a V6 or even a
four-cylinder.
| | 00:22 |
These are various configurations of the
same car, just with different options.
| | 00:26 |
The same holds true for SolidWorks.
And using eDrawings, we can view the
| | 00:30 |
available configurations of the assembly.
Let's take a look.
| | 00:34 |
So, this is a configuration with all the
hardware showing.
| | 00:36 |
If you look down here at the bottom of the
screen, you can also see there's another
| | 00:39 |
configuration that says No Hardware.
If I just click on that configuration, you
| | 00:42 |
can see that all that hardware's now been
turned off and I'm only seeing the basic parts.
| | 00:47 |
I can switch between the two quite easily.
Also over here on the left, if I expand
| | 00:50 |
out the tree, I can see the configuration
manager.
| | 00:54 |
I can see there's a default configuration.
If I double-click on it, it switches
| | 00:57 |
between the views as well (SOUND) between
no hardware and hardware.
| | 01:00 |
Quite easily, I can see that.
And I still have full control of the model
| | 01:03 |
and be able to rotate, view, zoom in, etc.
Configurations can be very handy when
| | 01:08 |
creating a family of parts or assemblies
that have similar parts or features.
| | 01:12 |
eDrawings gives the viewer the ability to
quickly switch between versions and see
| | 01:15 |
the changes.
We can then comment, measure, and approve
| | 01:18 |
the design.
| | 01:19 |
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| Creating section views| 00:00 |
Have you ever wanted to cut something in
half and see what's going on inside?
| | 00:03 |
Now you can.
Section views gives us the ability to
| | 00:05 |
slice a model or assembly in half in any
direction, or location, and see what's
| | 00:09 |
happening in that section.
This is a great tool that really helps you
| | 00:12 |
determine the inner workings of a design.
Let's take a look.
| | 00:16 |
Section view is available right here on
the top.
| | 00:18 |
Click on section.
And notice it automatically slices the
| | 00:21 |
model right off the bat using the X Y
plane.
| | 00:23 |
I can switch between planes, by clicking
on any of these radio buttons and it
| | 00:26 |
switches the view.
I can spin it around using my middle mouse
| | 00:29 |
button by holding it down and I can see
what's going on directly inside that model.
| | 00:33 |
If I hold that plane, left mouse clicking
on that plane, I can drag that plane,
| | 00:37 |
forward and back, through the model, and I
can see exactly what's going on at any
| | 00:40 |
stage in the game, as I slide that plane
through the model to get a nice view of
| | 00:43 |
what's going on.
Here it is.
| | 00:48 |
And again, I can flip between the X and Z,
if I want to see down inside the model.
| | 00:53 |
And it's a great way to kind of see what's
going on.
| | 00:55 |
I can flip the orientation as well.
So I'm looking up, into the model, and a
| | 00:58 |
few other options here.
Section views are a perfect way to see
| | 01:01 |
inside a model and really analyze the
design.
| | 01:04 |
In new drawings, not only can we cut the
model in a variety of ways.
| | 01:07 |
We can also attach comments while the
model's in the next section state.
| | 01:10 |
We'll be doing that in a future movie.
| | 01:11 |
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| Looking at exploded views| 00:00 |
If you thought sectioning your model is
fun, exploding is awesome.
| | 00:03 |
However, before we can see some of the
cool stuff, we needed to make sure the
| | 00:06 |
model is created with an exploded view in
SolidWorks.
| | 00:09 |
If you can find the Explode command in the
Tools menu you are good to go.
| | 00:13 |
With one click of the button, we can
explode the assembly and see all of the parts.
| | 00:17 |
Then, we can move the model around and get
a great view of what's inside.
| | 00:20 |
Let's get started.
Over here on the tree, I can click on configurations.
| | 00:24 |
And you see under default, I have what's
called Exploded View One.
| | 00:28 |
If I double-click on Exploded View,
(SOUND) the part animates and all comes apart.
| | 00:32 |
You can see all the individual pieces of
hardware and all the individual components.
| | 00:36 |
And once again, if you double-click on
Exploded one more time, (SOUND) it all
| | 00:39 |
comes right back together, a nice little
animation.
| | 00:41 |
So when you have an exploded view out, I
can take that model and I can spin it around.
| | 00:46 |
I can zoom in on the parts, I can zoom out
on the parts.
| | 00:50 |
I can take a component and I can isolate
(INAUDIBLE) saying hide others.
| | 00:55 |
So I can see just the one component here.
And spin that around so what I want to do.
| | 01:00 |
And when you're done, you can go ahead and
right-click and say Show All.
| | 01:03 |
Everybody comes back.
And we can add things like transparency.
| | 01:07 |
So I could say Make Transparent, so you
can see the components there.
| | 01:11 |
You are just seeing the inside of it.
And when I bring that support back
| | 01:14 |
together, (SOUND) I can still see inside
the model and what other components are available.
| | 01:19 |
Okay?
Also, all your standard buttons appear at
| | 01:21 |
top (INAUDIBLE) as well.
I can play with this, it spins around in a
| | 01:25 |
nice presentation mode.
I can also explode this thing (SOUND) into
| | 01:28 |
this (INAUDIBLE) thing, so I can play it
in the exploded state, showing all the
| | 01:31 |
components where they are as the thing
moves around.
| | 01:35 |
And when you're done, go ahead and hit
Stop and you can always hit Home, which
| | 01:38 |
brings you right back to the original
state it was in, when the model was open.
| | 01:42 |
And all the other tools are available at
same states, so I can go to the Section
| | 01:45 |
view, I can cut this thing in half.
I want to section it in exploded state is
| | 01:49 |
fine or in the regular state.
Go ahead and explode that out, section
| | 01:52 |
view still applies.
Exploded view allows us to see all the
| | 01:55 |
parts separated and is a great way to get
an idea of what parts make up an assembly
| | 01:58 |
and the methods used to attach the parts
together.
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| Working with 2D models| 00:00 |
In a 3D world, 2D drawings seem so old
school.
| | 00:02 |
However, drawings can relay information in
ways 3D models just don't show well.
| | 00:07 |
eDrawings has a great set of tools for
working with and annotating drawings.
| | 00:12 |
Let me go ahead and open up a couple of
files here.
| | 00:15 |
The first one I want to open is a actually
a 3D file as well.
| | 00:18 |
So it's eDrawing part 2.6.
Let's go ahead and open that up.
| | 00:21 |
You can see this is a little bracket, and
I can spin this thing around, I can look
| | 00:24 |
at it.
The only problem with looking at this
| | 00:26 |
bracket is I don't see any of the
dimensions, right?
| | 00:29 |
I have to go actually, come over here to
the Measure command and measure the
| | 00:31 |
individual parts out.
Alternatively I can go over here to Open
| | 00:35 |
and open the eDrawing.
(SOUND) And in this, I can see the exact
| | 00:38 |
same bracket but I can see all the
dimensions and places on that model.
| | 00:42 |
Now, somebody would have already created
this drawing in SolidWorks.
| | 00:45 |
However, once we do have a drawing, we can
go ahead and zoom in and zoom out, review
| | 00:49 |
the different sizes, the different
dimensions placed on this drawing.
| | 00:53 |
And I can make annotative changes to it,
if I need to, by either clicking on
| | 00:56 |
Measure or clicking on the Comments
toolbar.
| | 00:59 |
So I can click on maybe the Dimension
toolbar.
| | 01:01 |
And we are going to cover this more in a
few movies, but I can, you know, zoom in
| | 01:06 |
on a model, and I can say, okay, from the
top of this down to the side of this,
| | 01:10 |
right now I'm seeing this as 4.375.
And I can say, change this to 5 inches.
| | 01:19 |
And that's going to add that comment to
the drawing, and it'll show you what it is
| | 01:22 |
currently and what it should be.
And this is great for relaying that
| | 01:26 |
information back to the designer or
whoever created the part originally.
| | 01:29 |
And it also starts a discussion.
And we'll be covering discussions and
| | 01:32 |
replying to notes in a future chapter.
However, this makes a real easy way to,
| | 01:37 |
you know, kind of view the model and look
at it.
| | 01:40 |
You can also click on Open and look at a
few other file types.
| | 01:44 |
So, over here I can see the listing of all
the file types that are available to open
| | 01:47 |
in eDrawings, and my standard SolidWorks
files are available as well.
| | 01:51 |
So, I can open parts, assemblies, and
drawings.
| | 01:53 |
And let's go ahead and open a drawing.
So here is that same drawing.
| | 01:57 |
But this one is a SolidWorks file.
(SOUND) Yes, it's exact same drawing.
| | 02:01 |
This one's a native SolidWorks file and I
can do exact same things here.
| | 02:04 |
But just keep in mind the difference
between the two files.
| | 02:08 |
This one is actively linked to the part.
So any changes to that part will
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automatically propagate through to this
drawing, as our parts update it.
| | 02:16 |
Whereas, when I save that in eDrawing or
DWG or DXF file, that file is locked in time.
| | 02:20 |
And it will not update, will not change as
a mall progresses.
| | 02:24 |
So it's a good way to do Rev on your
drawing.
| | 02:26 |
So Rev A, for instance, is going to
continue to be Rev A, and any changes in
| | 02:29 |
mall will not be effected into the
existing part.
| | 02:33 |
So this one here will because it is a
SolidWorks file.
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If I go back to the eDrawing, this one
will not ever change again.
| | 02:39 |
I mean, unless, I go actually and create a
new eDrawing file to overwrite this file.
| | 02:44 |
I can also go over here to Open and I can
come down to DWG and DXF and I can open
| | 02:49 |
either one of those.
Go ahead and open the DWG file first.
| | 02:54 |
Open.
There it is.
| | 02:57 |
Same data again.
And this one's, again, locked in time.
| | 03:00 |
So I cannot make any changes to this part.
Once it's been saved, I can only review
| | 03:04 |
it, and, make comments on this file.
Same thing if I open the DXF file.
| | 03:09 |
Those are pretty much the same type of
file type.
| | 03:11 |
Looks exactly the same.
But there's a whole listing of the
| | 03:14 |
different files and types we can open in
2D data.
| | 03:17 |
eDrawings is very flexible and that it can
open either parts, assemblies, or 2D drawings.
| | 03:22 |
Don't discount the power of drawings in
relating information.
| | 03:25 |
Adobe PDF documents are great.
However, eDrawings is similar, with the
| | 03:28 |
ability to measure and review and have
those comments stay with the document
| | 03:31 |
through several different reviewers.
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| Reviewing FEA results| 00:00 |
When creating a report from SolidWorks
simulation, one of the options is to
| | 00:03 |
create an eDrawings file.
This is a great way to share the results,
| | 00:06 |
and makes it easy to review the report in
an interactive format.
| | 00:10 |
First things first, let's open the report.
Let's go up here to Open, and you see it's 2.7-eprt.
| | 00:15 |
Go ahead and click on that, and click on
open.
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Okay, soon as this opens up, this is the
same part we've been looking at.
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We did a simulation on it, and I can zoom
in, zoom out.
| | 00:26 |
I can spin it around by holding down the
middle mouse button.
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I can zoom by scrolling, and you can see
exactly what's going on in this model.
| | 00:32 |
You can see where the stress risers are,
you can see where the safe zones are.
| | 00:36 |
So everything that's going to be in red or
orange or yellow are going to be areas
| | 00:38 |
that are seeing high stresses.
And everything in blue is going to be just fine.
| | 00:43 |
So this gives a nice way for us to kind of
look at a model and see places we might be
| | 00:46 |
able to remove a little extra material if
we.
| | 00:49 |
I'm not seeing any stress in there, for
instance, and this area down here is
| | 00:51 |
completely blue.
There's very, very low stress in this area.
| | 00:54 |
We could thin that section out fairly
easily and not have to worry about it.
| | 00:58 |
Same thing over here is, if we want to
increase the load capacity of this
| | 01:00 |
bracket, here.
I could come out here and maybe expand
| | 01:03 |
this out around the outside, or do some
other things that are going to lower this
| | 01:05 |
stress is maybe add some fillets or
radiuses on the insides of these corners.
| | 01:10 |
Anyways, it gives you a nice way to look
at the model, spin it around.
| | 01:13 |
I can look at the various different
reports that have been created.
| | 01:15 |
So I can look at displacement, showing
exactly how far something moved.
| | 01:19 |
And, by the way, this has got a scale of
470, so it really doesn't move that far.
| | 01:23 |
It's just showing the point of, or part of
the bracket here that's moving the
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furthest and gives it actual dimension,
how far it's really going.
| | 01:30 |
Click on the Deformation Scale and I'll
show you what it looks like there and
| | 01:32 |
what's going to happen to that model and
factor of safety.
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And in this case here, our factor of
safety is only one, so we're well within
| | 01:39 |
the factor of safety.
But I could increase the factor of safety
| | 01:42 |
to a certain amount and it would show any
areas that were outside of that factor safety.
| | 01:47 |
It looks like we have a factor safety of
about five in this model.
| | 01:50 |
Then go back to the stresses, I can show
the mesh showing the size of the mesh
| | 01:53 |
elements that was used.
If I want to review that I can go up here
| | 01:57 |
to the title block.
I can turn that on or off.
| | 02:00 |
I can go to options, turn those on.
If I want to do some mark up, I can go in
| | 02:03 |
here and fill out my phone number and
email address.
| | 02:06 |
I can change from color of the different
text.
| | 02:09 |
I can change things around here as far as
the basic options are available and some
| | 02:12 |
highlighting stuff.
Click Okay.
| | 02:15 |
That's available on all the different
versions of eDrawings as well.
| | 02:18 |
Also I have some commenting so I can
comment in here and we're going to be
| | 02:21 |
covering that in future movies as far as
the exact details of how to use all these
| | 02:25 |
tools but let's just go ahead and add one
comment for fun and say, add Radius of
| | 02:29 |
point two five and I click there and it
shows that little note.
| | 02:35 |
And it shows I made the comment over here
on the left.
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If I move them all around, I can always
click back back the comment and it will
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bring it back to the point where it was
created in showing that note.
| | 02:47 |
The eDrawings simulation drawing is my
favorite way to save and review simulation results.
| | 02:52 |
It gives the viewer a quick way to see the
data in an interactive way and adds all
| | 02:55 |
the power of eDrawings to review, comment,
and share the results.
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3. Annotating Your DrawingsAdding note boxes| 00:00 |
eDrawings allows multiple people to
comment on and review files.
| | 00:03 |
I can open a file, review it, and comment
on it, and then I can send it over to a
| | 00:06 |
coworker, customer, or vendor, and they
can see all my comments and markup.
| | 00:11 |
They can then reply to existing comments,
or make their own.
| | 00:14 |
This can continue as long as needed, and
all the comments will be recorded in the
| | 00:17 |
position the model was in, while the
comment was made.
| | 00:20 |
Let's check it out.
I have part 3.1.eprt open and it's a
| | 00:24 |
regular eDrawing file.
I can spin it around, and we want to make
| | 00:28 |
a few comments to this file.
So in this case I'm going to go click on
| | 00:31 |
the pencil icon over here for markup and
in this movie we are going to be covering
| | 00:35 |
the text with leader and the text box.
So first one, the text over here.
| | 00:40 |
I'm going to make a comment right over
here.
| | 00:42 |
I'm going to add a radius.
So I'm going to say add a radius.
| | 00:46 |
If I click right there, you can see it
shows up right in the window and if I move
| | 00:51 |
that, I'm all around.
Actually it's hidden.
| | 00:56 |
So I don't see it anymore.
And if I want to get back to that comment,
| | 00:58 |
you see over here under Marked Comments,
there's my name and Comment1.
| | 01:02 |
If I double-click on that, spins the model
back to the orientation it was when I
| | 01:05 |
created that comment, and there you see
it.
| | 01:08 |
Okay?
I can spin this thing around further, and
| | 01:11 |
if I want to just add like just a general
comment, maybe, like the type of material
| | 01:15 |
you'd want to make this out of, then I
just pick a text box.
| | 01:20 |
And I'll say, Make From Cast Steel.
Click OK (SOUND) and you see it shows up there.
| | 01:25 |
Now I've got two comments up there and I
can click on the first one, it spins
| | 01:28 |
around to there, click on the second one,
it spins around to there.
| | 01:31 |
So you can continue adding comments and
the model will continue to spin around.
| | 01:35 |
So it makes it really nice if you're, for
instance, sending a file or emailing a
| | 01:38 |
file to somebody else.
And you can say OK, click on Comment1.
| | 01:43 |
That way you'll know when both people are
looking at the model in the exact same
| | 01:45 |
orientation and looking at your comment in
the exact same way.
| | 01:48 |
Then you can right-click and say Reply, or
you can click on Reply right here.
| | 01:52 |
And you can write in about what you think
about that comment.
| | 01:55 |
If you don't like that comment or this
comment here I can right click on it and I
| | 01:57 |
can delete the comment.
So, I can add and delete comments quite
| | 02:01 |
easily like that.
I can also do the same thing in the 2D
| | 02:04 |
file format.
So, I have that document open behind here.
| | 02:08 |
I'm just going to expand that out.
You can see the exact same part is here in
| | 02:11 |
the 2D drawing format and I'm going to go
ahead and add that same type of comment.
| | 02:15 |
So I'm going to click on the annotation,
click on the text with leader, and I'm
| | 02:17 |
just going to zoom it down to this little
corner.
| | 02:20 |
And I'll say, add point 1.25 radius.
Click OK.
| | 02:27 |
And you can see that comment stays with
the drawing, and if I double click on it,
| | 02:31 |
it just highlights it in this case.
It doesn't actually spin them all around
| | 02:34 |
because there's nothing to spin around.
But, I have all the available options and
| | 02:37 |
markup, just like I would otherwise.
Another thing I wanted to point out in
| | 02:41 |
either the 3D view or the 2D drawing view,
I can click on the options.
| | 02:44 |
And I can change my name, phone number,
and e-mail address.
| | 02:47 |
So if you are working with a big group of
people who don't necessarily know each
| | 02:50 |
others' contact information, you can click
on a person's name, who made a comment,
| | 02:52 |
and get all of their contact details.
You also have the ability here to change
| | 02:57 |
font, line weights, colors, etc.
eDrawings lets the user place notes at
| | 03:01 |
specific orientations in the model and
attach to corresponding features.
| | 03:06 |
This makes it very easy to collaborate
with several users.
| | 03:08 |
You can simply click on the note and the
model will rotate around to the exact
| | 03:11 |
position it was in when the note was
created.
| | 03:14 |
That way several people can see the exact
same thing while talking on the phone or
| | 03:17 |
collaborating otherwise.
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| Using clouds and other notes| 00:00 |
Clouds can be used to place general notes
on a drawing, specify regions or revisions
| | 00:03 |
or just place basic notes on the drawing.
eDrawings has three versions of the Cloud.
| | 00:08 |
One with a leader, one without and then
just a basic cloud.
| | 00:11 |
Clouds operate the same way as note-boxes
and count as comments in the same way.
| | 00:14 |
It's really up to you as the designer or
the reviewer of how you want to comment on
| | 00:17 |
a drawing.
Let's take a look.
| | 00:19 |
First I'm going to click on the pencil
icon, it's going to bring out the comments toolbar.
| | 00:23 |
And we're going to be looking at these
three icons here.
| | 00:25 |
So, it's going to be cloud with leader,
cloud with text, and just a basic cloud.
| | 00:29 |
Let's go ahead with cloud with leader.
I'm going to click up here, and right on
| | 00:32 |
that edge and I'm going to make a little
note that says add radius of .125.
| | 00:37 |
Click okay and you see that little note
just pops right there and sticks on the drawing.
| | 00:43 |
If I spin that drawing, it's hidden, so if
I want to come back to it, I just double
| | 00:46 |
click on it and it brings it right back
around so I can see it real easy.
| | 00:49 |
And if I want to go and add some more
comments, the next one I'm going to use is
| | 00:53 |
just the cloud with text.
In this case here, I'm going to place it
| | 00:56 |
up here.
I'm going to say, make from cast steel.
| | 01:00 |
So it's going to show up there as another
note, and once again if I spin that
| | 01:04 |
around, you cant see it unless I click
back on that note.
| | 01:09 |
And it shows up right in the same
orientation when I created that note int
| | 01:11 |
he beginning.
By the way, I'm going to also point out
| | 01:13 |
how to move this model around if I want
to.
| | 01:16 |
If I hit the space bar any time, It will
bring a little icon that pops out here.
| | 01:20 |
A bunch of icons actually.
It is a fly out so the space bar will
| | 01:23 |
bring that in and out and then I can pick
on the front, back, left, right, top,
| | 01:27 |
bottom or isometric view or if I pick a
face I can use this Normal To, and it'll
| | 01:30 |
spin them all around so I'm looking
directly at that face.
| | 01:36 |
That makes it really handy.
In this case here I want to use a basic
| | 01:39 |
cloud to just specify a region.
Right here, and I'm going to combo that
| | 01:43 |
with a regular note box so, then I'm
going to go and attach to that.
| | 01:47 |
I'm going to say add part mark.
So, I'm saying I want to add a part mark
| | 01:51 |
right to that region of the back of this
part.
| | 01:54 |
And by comboing the two, I'm pulling that
note directly off of the part itself.
| | 01:58 |
Makes it a little bit cleaner.
I can also do the same thing if I go over
| | 02:02 |
to the 2D joint format.
I can use the same tools, for instance,
| | 02:06 |
the cloud can specify a certain region I'm
interested in so people will look in that region.
| | 02:11 |
I can specify a certain note for a size.
Something like this I could say change
| | 02:17 |
full size (SOUND) and specify out and
we'll say 0.75 for instance.
| | 02:23 |
Alright?
And I'll just specify that note to that
| | 02:25 |
location or we can use pretty much exactly
the same way as I use the note box.
| | 02:28 |
So, really the tips, the tools are
universal between note boxes and clouds.
| | 02:32 |
It just gives you the ability to kind of
specify your region and not having to put
| | 02:35 |
a text with the basic cloud.
The other ones operate about the same.
| | 02:39 |
eDrawings offers several ways to make
comments and collaborate on designs.
| | 02:42 |
Clouds are one of those ways, and a great
way for adding general notes to a design.
| | 02:46 |
Grab your computer, fire up eDrawings, and
let's make some comments.
| | 02:49 |
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| Adding measure annotations| 00:00 |
We have the ability to measure the current
model, as well as to add redline
| | 00:03 |
annotations to the model or drawing to
indicate changes to the design.
| | 00:08 |
Most of the time, these tools will be used
in conjunction.
| | 00:10 |
In Chapter 2.2, we learned about the
Measure tool.
| | 00:13 |
So we're going to start with that and then
add comments using the Measure Comment
| | 00:16 |
tool to relay what we'd like to change in
the design.
| | 00:19 |
To get started, I'm going to go ahead and
click on the pencil icon over here.
| | 00:22 |
To bring up the Tool Pallet for our
comments, and I can also use the measure
| | 00:25 |
tool pallet right below that.
So first let's go and actually measure
| | 00:29 |
some holes out here on the design.
So in this case, I'm going to measure this
| | 00:32 |
hole here.
And I'm going to say okay, that's 0.53
| | 00:34 |
inches diameter, and it's .375 deep.
And that's great.
| | 00:37 |
I want to go and change that though.
So I'm going to go back up here.
| | 00:40 |
I'm going to go grab the first Dimension
tool, right there at the top.
| | 00:44 |
And I'm going to come over here and I have
some selection filters that I can turn on
| | 00:46 |
if I want, so I can turn these on, and
then I can select over here.
| | 00:50 |
Click on that, and notice it gives us the
exact size of the hole, currently.
| | 00:54 |
And then I can write in here, change to,
and I'll say, .75.
| | 00:58 |
Click OK, and there it is.
Now if I move that model, it's hidden.
| | 01:02 |
I don't see it until I go back to that
commenting toolbar.
| | 01:05 |
Double click on it, and it spins it around
to the point where I use and placed that annotation.
| | 01:10 |
Now I can do the exact same thing if I go
over to the 2D model view.
| | 01:13 |
So I'm going to close this.
And then I'm going to open the 2D view.
| | 01:17 |
And I'm going to do the same thing here.
I'm going to zoom in on this hole here.
| | 01:21 |
And I'm going to go back to annotation, or
measure first, and measure it so, okay.
| | 01:26 |
That hole 0.53, same as it was before.
Go back to annotation, click on Dimension
| | 01:30 |
tool, and in this case here I can turn
some of these different selection filters
| | 01:34 |
on to different things.
All I really need to do is pick the center
| | 01:38 |
point of that and it will give me the
0.53.
| | 01:40 |
And then, again, I can say change to 0.75.
Click OK.
| | 01:45 |
And I can zoom in, zoom out, and just
stays right there with the drawing.
| | 01:48 |
And it's listed over here again on the
left hand showing that dimensional change.
| | 01:52 |
It's just a comment, so I can right-click
on and I can delete if I'd like to.
| | 01:56 |
I can change the properties as far as the
size, the color.
| | 01:58 |
I can put my name, phone number, e-mail
address and, therefore, if I'd like to, so
| | 02:02 |
that if somebody else is reviewing the
drawing, they can contact me if they have
| | 02:05 |
questions about my comments.
I can change the font.
| | 02:08 |
(INAUDIBLE) I can do there to get it
looking the right way.
| | 02:12 |
Most of the important tasks in the design
review are making sure that dimensions are
| | 02:15 |
correct and if any of the dimensions are
not, relaying this information back to the
| | 02:18 |
designer to update the model.
With all the power of eDrawings this just
| | 02:22 |
another great way to use the power of this
software.
| | 02:25 |
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| Adding stamps and reviews| 00:00 |
Stamps give you the ability to place the
state of a drawing in a permanent stamp on
| | 00:04 |
a model or drawing.
Just like a real stamp, you can use this
| | 00:07 |
to explain what's happening in the review
process of a drawing.
| | 00:10 |
For example, we can state the drawing is
in draft state, or it's confidential.
| | 00:14 |
But be careful, whenever you place the
stamp As soon as you save the file, that
| | 00:17 |
stamp becomes permanent.
Let's take a look.
| | 00:19 |
The stamp toolbar is here on the left.
Click on that, and here's the available
| | 00:23 |
stamps that we have.
Approve, confidential, draft, final, for
| | 00:26 |
comment, and a few others down here.
So for instance, if we say hey, this
| | 00:29 |
design looks great.
I'm going to go ahead and approve this design.
| | 00:32 |
I'm going to drop it right there on top of
the design.
| | 00:34 |
And there it is.
Now I can spin the model and that approved
| | 00:37 |
status doesn't spin with it, it just stays
right there on top.
| | 00:41 |
And if I double click it I can adjust it a
little bit, the size of it, but it's
| | 00:44 |
always going to pretty much sit there.
Now be careful.
| | 00:47 |
If I click on file, save as or save, this
is going to be always stuck to my design
| | 00:50 |
as an approved stamp, which is great if
it's approved or if it's draft but then if
| | 00:53 |
you get a little too wild with these
things and start stamping them all over
| | 00:56 |
the place, makes it kind of hard to kind
of see what's going on in your design.
| | 01:02 |
When you're moving the model around you've
got all these stamps kind of stuck on the
| | 01:05 |
outside of this thing.
So actually I think that the stamp command
| | 01:09 |
or stamp tool is a little bit better
suited for the 2D drawings but if you have
| | 01:12 |
the application, 3D is great as well.
Let's switch over to the 2D view, and this
| | 01:17 |
case here, I'll expand that out, come back
to the 2D stamp.
| | 01:22 |
And here we go, so I'll, maybe this will
say, this is a preliminary.
| | 01:25 |
We haven't added draft or any other fillet
to this part yet.
| | 01:28 |
So it's really a preliminary design.
And you drag this right over into the
| | 01:32 |
model view, and I can go ahead and scale
that and move it over here.
| | 01:37 |
And there it is, hey, it's preliminary,
anybody you send this to they know now.
| | 01:42 |
It's preliminary, it's not a final design,
and any other mark-up or comment on here
| | 01:45 |
will show.
The other thing I'm going to point out is,
| | 01:48 |
I can add my own custom stamps.
So if you had a stamp that you created in
| | 01:51 |
your company or logo, or some type of
reference for manufacturing, we can go and
| | 01:55 |
add these in here.
To do that, go up to Tools, go to Options,
| | 01:59 |
and down here at the bottom there's a
thing called Stamped Path.
| | 02:04 |
And in this case here it's C Program Files
SolidWorks, dah dah dah dah.
| | 02:07 |
That whole path, they might be a little
different on your screen, but just find
| | 02:10 |
whatever that path is, click on that, you
can open it up and see exactly where it's at.
| | 02:15 |
Write down what that path is, and then any
image files you add into that path will
| | 02:18 |
automatically show up in your stamps
folder.
| | 02:21 |
So, you could upload a JPEG, a PNG, and
those will show up in that stamps folder.
| | 02:27 |
Stamps can be handy for marking parts in a
review state or confidential.
| | 02:31 |
It can also be used to approve the final
designs in production.
| | 02:34 |
I find stamp tools are better suited for
the drawing environment than 3D.
| | 02:37 |
However, it's up to you on the usage.
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| Drawing shapes| 00:00 |
Sometimes the best way to relay what you'd
like to do is to draw a simple shape or
| | 00:03 |
import a sketch or picture, that shows an
example.
| | 00:06 |
eDrawings has a handy set of tools to
basic shapes as well as ability to import
| | 00:10 |
various image formats that show up in the
view window.
| | 00:14 |
To get started click on the annotation
toolbar and we're going to be using this
| | 00:17 |
of tools down here.
The line, rectangle, circle, bark and
| | 00:21 |
spline tools.
To get started I'm going to move this
| | 00:24 |
model around, take this back face and
click on normal too.
| | 00:27 |
Now what I want to do is I want to add a
little rectangular cutout in the back side
| | 00:30 |
of this part.
So to do that, I can make a note but it's
| | 00:32 |
probably a little bit easier if I just
drew a shape about what I'm looking for.
| | 00:37 |
I'm looking for a cut out about that size,
and then I can add a note to that that
| | 00:42 |
specifies cut out 1 by 2 inches.
And I further detail this out with more
| | 00:48 |
notes if I wanted to specifying the height
above the bottom and things like that.
| | 00:52 |
And I can add clouds or other various
things.
| | 00:54 |
If I needed to, I can even add pictures
in.
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So let's do another annotation here
because we know we have an issue on the
| | 00:59 |
far side here is when this is loaded up,
we have a little bit of a stress riser
| | 01:03 |
here that we saw from when we did the FEA
analysis.
| | 01:07 |
What I'm going to do is I'm going to bring
in the FEA analysis picture, and I have it
| | 01:11 |
right here, it's 3.5.PNG.
It comes in a little bit too big, so we're
| | 01:16 |
going to have to zoom out here a little
bit and scroll back down.
| | 01:21 |
So that fits the window a little bit
cleaner.
| | 01:23 |
Alright, there we go.
So we can see an image of what's happening
| | 01:26 |
in the model when we do FEA analysis.
And we can see we've got a stress riser
| | 01:30 |
right here or showing that in the design.
So we can make a comment now that says
| | 01:35 |
Okay, maybe over here.
Maybe we're going to say add radius and
| | 01:40 |
we'll say .125.
So it actually shows up as two separate comments.
| | 01:44 |
I can double click here, I can see the
image itself, the problem, and then number 2.
| | 01:48 |
There's the little add radius and I go
back to my first comment, so each one of
| | 01:51 |
those comments shows up one after another
over here on the left, and I'm using
| | 01:54 |
shapes and pictures to illustrate what you
need to do.
| | 01:59 |
The same way I can use lines.
I can draw some things out.
| | 02:03 |
I can add, you know, champher to the side
of the part if I'd like.
| | 02:06 |
If I'd like to add additional holes, I can
come in here and draw holes, and I can
| | 02:09 |
even, even use squiggly lines.
And these aren't going to actually do
| | 02:12 |
anything for you, I'm just showing that I
have the ability to draw them out.
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When you're done with the squiggly line,
or spline, go ahead and click on escape.
| | 02:19 |
And that, and then one of these lines I
could drag it around the screen by
| | 02:21 |
clicking on it and moving it.
And if don't want it, just go ahead and
| | 02:24 |
click on delete and take those right back
out.
| | 02:27 |
So, pretty handy little drawing tools for
your illustrating some of the different
| | 02:29 |
things we'd like to do.
Including shapes, drawings and images in
| | 02:32 |
an eDrawings file is one of my favorite
ways to annotate a drawing.
| | 02:36 |
It's quick and efficient, and after all,
they say a picture is worth a thousand words.
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4. Collaborating with eDrawingsReviewing comments| 00:00 |
When you first get an eDrawings file, you
either have a part, an assembly, or a
| | 00:03 |
drawing to review.
Additionally, there might be some embedded
| | 00:06 |
comments for you to look at.
Anyone who's worked on this file prior to
| | 00:10 |
you will have a log of their comments
listed in the review box.
| | 00:13 |
Let's click on the pencil icon, and you
can see there's already quite a few comments.
| | 00:17 |
Both Abby and Bob have already looked at
this file and they've placed their
| | 00:20 |
comments there.
Now by clicking on any one of these
| | 00:22 |
comments, the model should rotate around,
so I can actually look exactly at the
| | 00:25 |
model the same way they did when they
created the comment.
| | 00:28 |
Let's click on Abby's Comment1.
And she says, let's change the material to
| | 00:32 |
stainless steel.
That's great.
| | 00:34 |
And go down here to Comment number 2.
You can see the model spins around, so I'm
| | 00:37 |
looking directly at the model at the same
orientation.
| | 00:40 |
This is really handy if you're working
remotely and discussing a file whether
| | 00:43 |
you're doing a phone conference or text
messaging or some other method for sharing information.
| | 00:49 |
I'm making sure that I'm looking at
exactly the same angle, orientation and
| | 00:53 |
comment at the same point in time.
So that makes it really handy and easy to
| | 00:57 |
collaborate on designs.
I'm also showing the various types of annotations.
| | 01:00 |
So this is note box with leader.
The next one here.
| | 01:03 |
I've used Dimension tool.
Showing that we can actually thin this
| | 01:06 |
section out to save some material costs.
As you can see here this dimension is 0.375.
| | 01:10 |
We might be able to change this down to
about a quarter of an inch.
| | 01:13 |
And then re-run the analysis to see if we
can save some material cost.
| | 01:17 |
The next comment here is Abby wants to add
2 holes that are 1 inch diameter to the
| | 01:20 |
back and then Bob has actually replied to
that comment.
| | 01:24 |
So you can see this little plus next to
her name.
| | 01:26 |
And you can expand that out if you don't
see it.
| | 01:28 |
And there's Bob, and Bob is actually
replied and says he'd prefer to have a
| | 01:31 |
rectangular box, and cut out instead.
So you can go and create quite a
| | 01:35 |
conversation between different viewers of
the design.
| | 01:38 |
The next couple comments here.
We're adding some draft to these faces.
| | 01:42 |
And by the way, when these comments are up
on the screen, I can zoom in and zoom out
| | 01:45 |
to see it a little better.
As soon as I do rotate it though, it does
| | 01:48 |
turn that off.
So, you can zoom in, zoom out but you
| | 01:50 |
can't rotate.
And, there's a couple more here.
| | 01:53 |
Add some draft.
The final comment is a cloud saying he
| | 01:55 |
would like to smooth over all the edges.
If I like to save out these comments, I
| | 01:59 |
can come up here to the top and say save
markup.
| | 02:02 |
I can save the comments from the both
users or all of them at the time to a file
| | 02:05 |
I can then load into a similar file later
to make sure all those files have been
| | 02:08 |
addressed and all the comments have been
addressed in the final version.
| | 02:13 |
You can think of eDrawings as a high
powered PDF document for CAD files.
| | 02:17 |
It's a small all inclusive file that that
tracks comments and makes them easy to share.
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| Replying to comments| 00:00 |
Once a user has added a comment to an
eDrawing, other users can add their own
| | 00:03 |
comments or reply to the original comment.
In fact, we can track a full conversation
| | 00:08 |
about each of the discussion points.
This is a great way to get everyone in the
| | 00:12 |
group on the same page and make sure
everyone is seeing the same model, the
| | 00:14 |
same angle, and the same scale.
If you can do a live meeting or screen
| | 00:19 |
sharing, you can get the same benefit.
However, everyone that needs to be there
| | 00:22 |
at the same time to log into the meeting.
With eDrawings, we can get much of that
| | 00:25 |
same benefit without the need to
coordinate everyone's schedule.
| | 00:28 |
To get started, let's take a look at this
file here.
| | 00:31 |
We've been looking on this file in the
past few movies.
| | 00:33 |
You can see that both Abby and Bob have
both made comments on this file.
| | 00:36 |
We want to replay back to a few of these
comments.
| | 00:38 |
We'll click on that first one.
You can see that Abby want's to change the
| | 00:41 |
material to stainless steel.
If I click on this box down here to reply
| | 00:44 |
it will give me a little not that says you
actually didn't create that comment.
| | 00:47 |
Would you like to reply to it?
Yes, I do.
| | 00:50 |
And notice, here's the comment and I can
reply here.
| | 00:52 |
I can say let's change to brass, maybe.
Let's change to B, R, there it is, and my
| | 00:58 |
comment changed.
I can also double click on this comment
| | 01:03 |
here, and I can change it here.
So, I'll just change that to brass, click
| | 01:07 |
Okay, and then you can see my comment
shows up directly below Abby's comment.
| | 01:12 |
So, Abby's comment's here, I can click on
the Plus, expand it out, and there's my comment.
| | 01:16 |
So I could change it right here or I can
actually change the comment in the screen.
| | 01:20 |
Let's go on the next comment here, and
comment number 2.
| | 01:23 |
You see the model spins around so I can
view that comment.
| | 01:26 |
I can reply to that as well.
Instead of clicking down here though, this
| | 01:29 |
time I'm going to click on reply, right.
I'll say, this is fine, and then again,
| | 01:34 |
it's tracked.
Now a couple more comments here.
| | 01:37 |
I can look at different views here for
thickness and material.
| | 01:40 |
You can see the section.
I should like just to it a little thinner
| | 01:43 |
so we can save on material costs.
And this is probably a good idea, right?
| | 01:46 |
So what I would like to do is maybe have
an FEA analysis right on this part.
| | 01:50 |
maybe cut the section down to maybe a
quarter of an inch.
| | 01:52 |
And rerun the FEA analysis, and see what
type of strength we can get out of the material.
| | 01:56 |
And if that looks good we'll go ahead and
approve that.
| | 01:59 |
So in this case here I can right click on
it say reply, and I can say change to .25,
| | 02:05 |
and rerun the FEA.
So pretty handy and you can track all
| | 02:11 |
these comments.
And let's click on a couple more.
| | 02:13 |
Same thing over here, Abby commented on
this and said she wanted to add a couple
| | 02:16 |
holes that are one inch diameter and then
Bob replied to that and said he'd prefer
| | 02:19 |
to actually have a rectangular cut-out and
then I can actually reply to his comment.
| | 02:26 |
I like the rectangle.
Okay, so now we got nest comments.
| | 02:29 |
They can expand and they can click on the
plus or minus buttons here, expand it out.
| | 02:34 |
You can see that Abby made the first
comment, Bob replied, and then I replied
| | 02:37 |
to Bobs comments.
When you're done making all the changes
| | 02:40 |
and reviewing all the comments, I can
click up here, and I can save out those
| | 02:42 |
comments by clicking on save markup.
And you can see all the different people
| | 02:46 |
who've reviewed that file.
I can save out all their comments to one
| | 02:49 |
file and I can open that file later on a
new version of the eDrawing.
| | 02:53 |
To import those and make sure that each
one of those comments has been addressed
| | 02:56 |
into the newest file.
Click Okay, and that goes away.
| | 02:59 |
Save our file but I'm just going to cancel
cause I don't need to save it.
| | 03:03 |
eDrawings has a great set of tools and
there apply methods covered in the
| | 03:05 |
software enable a team to quickly settle
disputes relay ideas and make changes to
| | 03:09 |
the design.
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| Sending updates| 00:00 |
Once an eDrawing has been reviewed and
replied to, now we can send this file to
| | 00:03 |
e-mail or share it with a cloud.
There are services like DropBox and Google
| | 00:07 |
drive which are perfect for this.
One of the key benefits of using eDrawings
| | 00:11 |
is that each users comments are saved
under that user's name.
| | 00:14 |
That way when you are reviewing that file
you can see who reviewed each part of the design.
| | 00:19 |
eDrawing files are small and compact and
easy to share, the first step though is
| | 00:22 |
saving out the file.
If I click on the Save icon up here at the
| | 00:25 |
top it just saves all the comments and the
file exactly as you see it.
| | 00:29 |
However I have a few other options.
Under File I'm going to Save As and if I
| | 00:33 |
click on this drop down here I can see all
the various files types that I can Save As.
| | 00:37 |
Up here I can see I can save it out as a
.EXE file.
| | 00:41 |
This works great for recipients who do not
have eDrawings installed on their machines.
| | 00:45 |
You can sound a .EXE which has the full
eDrawings Viewer built into the file.
| | 00:49 |
I can also zip up the files using zip for
64 bit or 32.
| | 00:53 |
You can even save out a web page.
A .HTML file, which includes the eDrawing,
| | 00:57 |
or simple images of the screen captures as
we see right now.
| | 01:01 |
There's a Bitmap, JPEG, PNG or GIF file.
The one I want to save out here is the
| | 01:06 |
.exe for 32 bit.
Click Okay, and I'm going to go ahead and
| | 01:10 |
save that in the folder 4.3 and save that.
And I'm just going to save out a couple of
| | 01:14 |
em so we can see the differences.
So, I'm going to save this as a zip file,
| | 01:18 |
click on save and just do a couple more so
we can get a good understanding.
| | 01:24 |
Save as HTML, save, and file, save as, and
we'll just do, maybe a JPEG file.
| | 01:33 |
Okay?
So now we have all those files saved, all
| | 01:35 |
ready to send them.
Click on minimize, open the exercise files
| | 01:40 |
Under chapter 4 you can see under 4.3.
Those are various file types, and let's
| | 01:45 |
take a look at the various sizes of these
files.
| | 01:47 |
So the basic part was only 26 kilobytes,
extremely small.
| | 01:50 |
Easy to email, easy to send.
The HTML file is actually even smaller.
| | 01:54 |
It's only 19 kilobites.
That's not even 1 megabyte.
| | 01:57 |
However the zipped and the dot exe,
they're 7 and 7 and a half megabytes each,
| | 02:00 |
because they're including the full
eDrawings viewer.
| | 02:03 |
So be careful when you're sending that
because it's going to dramatically
| | 02:06 |
increase the file size.
When you're ready to send something, let's
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go ahead and fire up your e-mail
application.
| | 02:11 |
In this case here, I'm going to be using
Gmail and compose a message.
| | 02:15 |
Type in a recipient up here and click on
this little paper clip at the bottom, and
| | 02:18 |
go ahead and select the file.
Click on Open, and we're ready to send.
| | 02:23 |
It uploads the file, and we're good to go.
If I don't want to use that, I can switch
| | 02:27 |
overe here to Dropbox.
Dropbox is a great way to upload files.
| | 02:30 |
I can just right click anywhere on the
screen.
| | 02:32 |
Click on upload.
Choose a file.
| | 02:34 |
In this case here, I'm going to go over to
the desktop.
| | 02:37 |
Go down here to exercise files > Chapter 4
> 4.3 > and grab that first file.
| | 02:42 |
Click on Okay, and it's going to upload to
Dropbox, and then we're done.
| | 02:47 |
If you downloaded the Dropbox application
for your desktop, you should have a little
| | 02:50 |
folder like this, double click it.
I can see there is my report already
| | 02:53 |
because the two files synced together.
But if not, you can always just grab
| | 02:57 |
another file.
Let's put them next to each other here.
| | 02:59 |
Grab the zip file for instance, drag it
in, and that automatically uploads it to
| | 03:03 |
your drop box.
Then you have the ability to share that
| | 03:05 |
folder in drop box.
You can also right click on it, go to
| | 03:08 |
Dropbox, say Share Link, so that when that
sends out, you can share to anybody else
| | 03:11 |
who might be working on your team.
And they'll have a link to the exact same file.
| | 03:15 |
And if you go into Dropbox, you can also
share the entire folder that the file is
| | 03:18 |
in so that multiple people can make
changes to the same folder and you'll have
| | 03:21 |
that same information propagating across
all members of that folder share.
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5. Using the Mobile AppsInstalling the eDrawings app| 00:01 |
The eDrawings basic and pro applications
are available from the Apple app store.
| | 00:04 |
Let's open up the store by clicking on the
icon.
| | 00:08 |
When you get to the store, go ahead and
search Type in e-drawings.
| | 00:18 |
It should pop up, and go ahead and select
one of those.
| | 00:21 |
When you select the application, you can
see we have both eDrawings Basic and
| | 00:25 |
eDrawings Pro.
Go ahead and touch the price to buy the application.
| | 00:29 |
Click on Buy.
You might need to put in your password.
| | 00:34 |
Click Okay.
Once the application has downloaded and
| | 00:37 |
installed, go ahead and click on Open, or
you can go ahead and hit the Home button
| | 00:41 |
to show the Home screen.
And go ahead and launch E-drawings for the
| | 00:45 |
first time.
The application should open, and you
| | 00:48 |
should first see the Available Sample
Files.
| | 00:51 |
And you also have a tab at the top of the
screen, for my files, which you'll be
| | 00:54 |
downloading in future movies.
Okay, we're ready to get started with eDrawings.
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| Using the eDrawings app for iOS| 00:01 |
Wouldn't it be great to be sitting on the
beach and reviewing design files on your iPad?
| | 00:05 |
Guess what?
Leave the laptop at home and anywhere you
| | 00:07 |
are, including the beach, or any other
office location, you can comment on
| | 00:10 |
e-drawings just like you were sitting in
your office.
| | 00:14 |
It's all possible and in fact very easy.
We can also leverage the power of cloud
| | 00:18 |
based storage for access to all these
files on the go.
| | 00:21 |
To get started, let's go ahead and launch
the eDrawings application.
| | 00:25 |
When you first open up the software,
you'll see we have several different
| | 00:27 |
sample files to choose from.
I'm going to go ahead and select the
| | 00:30 |
loader to open it up.
As soon as the file loads, we have the
| | 00:33 |
ability to move this file around by simply
touching the screen and swiping your
| | 00:36 |
finger from left to right, or right to
left where you're able to spin the model I
| | 00:39 |
can even move it up and down in the same
manner.
| | 00:44 |
I switch over to two fingers, I can pan
the model across the screen.
| | 00:51 |
If I pinch out or in I can zoom.
In fact, I can do all three at the same time.
| | 00:57 |
I can rotate, pan and zoom...
Get my model into the correct orientation.
| | 01:03 |
If at any point in time you forget how to
zoom, pan, or rotate, go ahead and click
| | 01:07 |
on the question mark icon in the upper
right hand corner of the screen.
| | 01:12 |
That will bring down a drop down list of
all those commands.
| | 01:15 |
On the right hand side of the screen, I
can expand out that window and I can see
| | 01:18 |
all of the components that build this
assembly.
| | 01:20 |
I can then move the model around.
Select a component and notice it
| | 01:25 |
highlights in the main view window.
I can select different ones to show them
| | 01:31 |
on the screen.
On the bottom right hand corner of my
| | 01:35 |
screen I have selections to show all, hide
or show components, change transparency,
| | 01:40 |
or isolate individual components.
If I click on isolate I can then select a
| | 01:45 |
certain item and all the other items will
hide.
| | 01:49 |
I then can move that item around by
rotating it, zooming.
| | 01:58 |
Once I'm done I can close the drawer to
see the model in full screen.
| | 02:02 |
I can also open that slide out one more
time.
| | 02:04 |
Turn isolate off.
And, show all to bring the full model back.
| | 02:12 |
Close the fly out.
Move the model around on the screen, to
| | 02:15 |
get in the correct orientation.
I can select to hide or show different components.
| | 02:25 |
Going up to the tree and going ahead and
selecting an item.
| | 02:29 |
Notice that item is now hidden, I can do
exactly the opposite to bring it right back.
| | 02:35 |
Turn that button off, and close the
drawer.
| | 02:38 |
On the left hand side of the screen we
have options to view the various
| | 02:41 |
orientations of the model.
Notice that I can view the model in both
| | 02:45 |
shaded with edges or just shaded moats.
If I'd like to present the model, I can
| | 02:50 |
push the play button on the upper left
hand side of the screen.
| | 02:55 |
What that does is put it in a full screen
view mode and it cycles through the
| | 02:58 |
various orientations like front, side,
top, or right views of the model.
| | 03:03 |
This is also a great way to present your
designs by plugging it in to a projector.
| | 03:08 |
when you're done, go ahead and minimize
that screen to take you back to the full viewer.
| | 03:13 |
Clicking on the Home key, will brance back
to the original state of the model when we
| | 03:16 |
opened it.
We also have the ability to explode a
| | 03:20 |
model, by clicking on the Explode key.
What that will do is separate the pieces,
| | 03:24 |
so you can see all the different
components.
| | 03:27 |
And we do have to have an exploded view in
solid works when we created this file originally.
| | 03:31 |
>> Once the model's exploded we have the
ability to spin the model, look at the
| | 03:34 |
individual components just like we would
in a regular environment.
| | 03:39 |
And get it to the right orientation we're
looking for.
| | 03:43 |
When you're done, go ahead and hit explode
again.
| | 03:45 |
It brings all the componets back together.
This model also happns to have a
| | 03:49 |
configuration both with a cab and without
a cab.
| | 03:51 |
If I slide out the drawer on the right
hand side.
| | 03:54 |
Then I click on the configuration manager.
I can see there's a full or no cab version
| | 03:59 |
of this part.
By clicking on No Cab, it just removes
| | 04:02 |
that part of the design.
So I basically have two different
| | 04:05 |
configurations of the same assembly.
I can spin it around.
| | 04:09 |
Take a look at it.
Pull that drawer back out.
| | 04:15 |
We have the full tree available with all
of the components that build up this
| | 04:18 |
assembly just like we did with the full
version.
| | 04:21 |
I can look at the various components in
the same manner.
| | 04:24 |
I can still use show all, hide individual
components, use transparency, or isolate
| | 04:28 |
individual components.
If I like to view different orientations I
| | 04:33 |
can view this with shaded with edges or
without.
| | 04:39 |
I can look at the different various
orientations like front, right, top,
| | 04:44 |
isometric or even at perspective.
When you're done click on the icon again
| | 04:49 |
and that should close the window.
When you're done reviewing a file we can
| | 04:54 |
e-mail it, save an image, or even e-mail
an image.
| | 04:57 |
Click on e-mail a file, type in who you'd
like to send the file to, and away goes.
| | 05:01 |
I'm just going to cancel this for right
now.
| | 05:06 |
Here's also a new augmented reality
feature in e-drawings.
| | 05:10 |
Click on the A R button for more
information.
| | 05:13 |
Many times, designs need to be reviewed
often and having the ability in a small
| | 05:16 |
device like an iPad is awesome.
The Etronics Mobile App makes it easy for
| | 05:21 |
anyone to interpret and understand 2D and
3D design data, open, zoom, rotate,
| | 05:25 |
animate, browse, store, monitor and manage
your product designs wherever you go.
| | 05:32 |
It's simple to download and supports all
your basic cad files.
| | 05:34 |
Enjoy the seamless viewing and sharing
capabilities of e-drawing software on the go.
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| Looking at the eDrawings Pro app for iOS| 00:01 |
For a little bit more money, you can
upgrade your basic version of eDrawings to
| | 00:03 |
the pro version.
Design on the go just got better with
| | 00:06 |
eDrawings Pro Mobile Lab.
Take your designs to the next level of 2D
| | 00:10 |
and 3D collaboration with increased
interactivity, including dynamic cross
| | 00:14 |
section views, measurements, markup and
annotation, and the ability to share your
| | 00:18 |
design files via email.
Let's go ahead and launch the application.
| | 00:24 |
When eDrawings opens up, you can see the
various sample files.
| | 00:27 |
Let's click on the Loader, and notice the
Loader file opens up.
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On the left-hand side of the screen, we
have a few new icons.
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The first one is Measure.
Go ahead and click on that, and I have the
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ability to select faces, edges, points, or
holes.
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Let's pick the Face measure and select the
side of the shovel.
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Rotate that around, select the other side.
And you can see it gives us a measurement
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between the faces.
I also have the ability to measure edges,
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points or holes.
When you're done, click anywhere else in
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the view window to close the Measure
command.
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Section view is next.
Let's go ahead and click on Section view,
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and you see that the model is cut in half.
We have a plane that we can drag forward
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and backwards to slice that model in half
so we can see what's going on inside that assembly.
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I can go ahead and switch the plane that
I'm viewing and rotate that around so I
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can see it from the other side.
I can also drag that plane using the
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slider, up and down.
If I wanted to hide the plane, I can hide that.
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I can show a cap.
When you're done with the tool, go ahead
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and turn it off.
And the full model comes back.
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We have annotations available as well.
Go ahead and start a note.
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Type out what I'd like to say, and then
choose what type of border I'd like, box,
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cloud or even ellipse.
Done, and the note shows up on the screen.
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Besides the basic note box, I can also
draw lines, measure things, add pictures,
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take pictures, or delete notes.
On the right hand side of the screen, I
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can open the fly out window, go up to the
note comment window and select that note.
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And if I move the model around, it's
hidden.
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If I click back on that note, the model
spins around to exact orientation it was
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when I created the note.
And I can Zoom it down and I can see my notes.
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And if we were collaborating with other
people, we'd have all their notes listed
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there for us to easily review and comment
on.
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Go ahead and close the fly out.
Turn the tool off.
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When we're done we have the options to
Save a File, Save an Image, Email File or
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Email an Image.
Before we're allowed to do that we must
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Save the model.
Click on Yes and you're ready to go.
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The iPad Pro app is one of my favorite
review tools.
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Not only can I open eDrawings files, I can
also open native SolidWorks files from
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anywhere I happen to be.
With the addition of using cloud based
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file storage services, like Dropbox or
Google Drive, I have access to all the
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design files at my fingertips.
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So you've installed eDrawings on your iPad
and you've had a chance to review some of
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the sample files to get familiarized with
the basic tools in eDrawings.
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Now you'd like to open some of your own
files, there are two basic ways to do that.
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First, let's go ahead and open up our mail
application, and I can see I have a couple
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of emails in here for myself.
Let's go ahead and click on the eDrawings attachment.
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When I do, I get an option of several
different applications that can open that file.
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I can either choose eDrawings or eDrawings
Pro or I can save it to Dropbox or Google Drive.
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I'm going to go ahead and open it in
eDrawings Pro.
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I can see my assembly loads here.
I have the ability to spin the part.
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And we're ready to start reviewing the
file.
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When I'm done with this file, I can go
back to the file viewer and I can see the
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sample files here but also in the upper
right hand corner of the screen, I can see
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my files.
So click on that and notice that one
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drawing is now in that folder.
And if I had multiple files here, I could
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sort by name, extension, etc.
I can even delete.
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If you'd like to open up that e-drawing,
again go ahead and select the icon.
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Once we've reviewed the file we can, save
an image, email a file, or email an image.
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Let's go ahead and email the file, type in
who you'd like to send it to.
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Not only does it send you the files as an
attachment but it also gives the ability,
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and a link, to download the software.
When you're ready, go ahead and click
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Send, and away it goes.
I'm going to go ahead and cancel, delete
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the draft and go back to the home screen.
The second method for getting files into
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eDrawings is using a cloud base file
storage like Dropbox or Google drive.
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To get started, let's go ahead and click
on the drop box icon.
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Browse to the different folders you might
have a file in.
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In this case, Chapter 5.
And you can see there's an eDrawing file.
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Go ahead and click on it, and let the file
download.
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Notice it's unable to view this file.
That's okay.
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Go ahead and click on the icon on the
upper right hand corner of the screen,
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that has the arrow pointing into the box.
And it shows us the available applications
| | 02:00 |
that can open that type of file.
Go ahead and select eDrawings Pro.
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Notice the same file opens up on our
screen.
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Go ahead and close that, and we can do the
exact same thing with Google drive.
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Open up Google drive.
When that opens up click on My Drive and
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then select the edrawing file you'd like.
Click on open in and that should show the
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applications that can open that file...
Go ahead and click on eDrawings Pro, and
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your file will open right up.
There are several different methods for
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getting files into eDrawings, and getting
them out.
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They all work about the same.
By leveraging the power of Cloud based
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storage we have access to any of the
design files that we need, without needing
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to have the files emailed to us.
I recommend sharing most of your active
| | 02:44 |
directory on Dropbox or Google Drive so
you always have access to the fully directory.
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Just log-in, download the files you need
and review them on the fly.
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ConclusionNext steps| 00:00 |
Thank you for watching.
If you're interested in learning more,
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check out my Solidworks course on the
lynda.com training library.
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The course is Solidworks 2012 Essential
Training.
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(SOUND) This course offers seven hours of
in-depth training on 3D CAD modeling.
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It's a great first step on creating 3D
files, and it's perfect for saving out
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eDrawings for use in this course.
You also might be interested in some of
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the various AutoCAD courses available on
Lynda.com, AutoCAD inventor, or Google SketchUp.
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Anyways, thanks so much for watching.
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