eDrawings-Would you send them to a customer?

This is a followup on a discussion from a while back:

http://makeashorterlink.com/?E50325A1C

I tried eDrawings 2006 thinking that all the issues that caused the
original post were cleared up. Text sizing still has not been fixed. So
I am still waiting, and still not able to send eDrawings out.

 

And you don't have any problems with text sizing or other issues?

 

We are having a problem with eDrawings not printing OLE objects to Xerox
large format plotters. Drawings print fine in draft mode or to other
printers. I'm concerned what our customer will see when they plot.

Tony

 

The problems I have are more than minor discrepancies. When a note is
well within the border of a drawing in SWX and then runs an inch
outside the drawing in eDrawings it is not acceptable nor to any
standards I know of. This kind of thing occurs so often that it is more
than a minor inconvenience.

Out of curiousity, what font do you use on your drawings?

 

I did some tests today to try to narrow the OLE print issue from eDrawings.
I made a simple round extrude, created a drawing and inserted one line of
text from MS Word. Took forever to print (about 7 minutes) in quality
mode! Print file size is HUGE. Removed the one line of text and it printed
in seconds. Tried the same test with an MS Excel spreadshet and had the
same result. I've been communicating with both SW and Xerox to isolate the
problem. Nothing thus far.

Regards,

Tony

 

We use Arial Narrow. This may be the problem. Century Gothic is the
default SW font and may be the only one tested. The font we use is
pretty much a company standard which means if I try to change it I
better get used to wearing tar and feathers.

And to answer your question, No, we just use the one font.

 

Here is a quote from a vendor to whom I just sent an eDrawing exe file.
Another 15 minutes wasted screwing around with non-standard file
formats. They got a pdf in the end.

I got you e-mail and tried doing as you'd instructed in your voice mail
message
but didn't have any luck. I'm getting a message that I need to
download some
solidworks software that I am unsure whether [vendor's name] Bearings
wants me to download.

If you have any way of converting it to an Autocad 2000 or pdf file I
should be
able to open it.

 

Hey TOP.........

If you send them the zipped version of the e drawing, then there is
nothing that needs to be downloaded. It sends the viewer with it.

 

That's what I thought. No more.