E-Drawings Missing Feature?

Does anyone agree that the one feature missing from the E-Drawings is
the ability to make measurements?

For the most part the shops and clients have their own software and
ability to use the information in SW files. However, once in a while a
small shop etc. won't have an ability to view swdwgs. The E-Dwg viewer
would be fine for this purpose except the one thing that is missing is
that they can not make measurements. Without this one additional
ability, the E-dwg viewer isn't worth the label on the CD.

Anyone agree?

Thanks,

Ed

 

Not missing, just need to buy edraw pro to emit an edraw that permits it.

 

If you have e-drawings pro you need to enable that feature when you
save the file. Then anyone can measure the geometry in the file.

 

As I understand, the only way to get edraw pro is to purchase Office
Pro which is $2000 plus an extra $200 per year for support costs. At
least is is what my VAR is telling me.

The real problem is that I don't need edraw pro! Not even my major
clients or shops need pro, they all have MasterCam etc. that can read
the SW files directly. This only effects the "occational" small shop
that doesn't get enough SW drawing packages to make it worth anyone's
trouble to purchase "pro". Normally the standard edraw would be
perfect. But, without the ability to make a measurement, edraw is
worthless, I may as well send PDF files because the basic package can
not do much more then PDF. Besides just about everyone can read PDF
files. .

Doesn't it seem like a marketing ploy to leave out this one feature
that would make the standard edraw program useful?

Pro actually has a several additional capabilities for marking up etc.
In some situations this may be useful, (like working on a big project
from different offices- which I do not do) but I would not accept
anything other then hard copy red-line copies for recording purposes
anyway so except for occational measurements, the cost of Pro is very
unreasonable.

Does anyone know of a simple viewer that allows measurements to be made
with SW drawings and parts? A reasonable priced third party software?

Thanks,

Ed

 

You can buy eDrawings Pro stand-alone for around $1500, I believe.

WT

As I understand, the only way to get edraw pro is to purchase Office
Pro which is $2000 plus an extra $200 per year for support costs. At
least is is what my VAR is telling me.

The real problem is that I don't need edraw pro! Not even my major
clients or shops need pro, they all have MasterCam etc. that can read
the SW files directly. This only effects the "occational" small shop
that doesn't get enough SW drawing packages to make it worth anyone's
trouble to purchase "pro". Normally the standard edraw would be
perfect. But, without the ability to make a measurement, edraw is
worthless, I may as well send PDF files because the basic package can
not do much more then PDF. Besides just about everyone can read PDF
files. .

Doesn't it seem like a marketing ploy to leave out this one feature
that would make the standard edraw program useful?

Pro actually has a several additional capabilities for marking up etc.
In some situations this may be useful, (like working on a big project
from different offices- which I do not do) but I would not accept
anything other then hard copy red-line copies for recording purposes
anyway so except for occational measurements, the cost of Pro is very
unreasonable.

Does anyone know of a simple viewer that allows measurements to be made
with SW drawings and parts? A reasonable priced third party software?

Thanks,

Ed

 

AGREED:

 

The ability to measure is allowed by the file creator. Once enabled any
eDrawing version can measure. Only the paid version of eDrawing Pro
allows this.