Install Drawing Editor

Our group can't install 2005 untill spring because of OS upgrades that the
company needs to make since the viewer no longer supports NT. Our machines
in engineering can handle it but the shop wouldn't be able to reference the
drawings anymore. Anyway is there a way to install the DWG editor without
doing a full install of 05.

Corey

 

Corey,

Does the shop only need to view/Print DWG's?
There is a free Intellicad viewer on the net.

Bert

 

Actually I am not worried about the shop that part just prevents us from
delving into Sw2005. We have one seat of AutoCRUD and ofcourse that is
installed on my workstation. So if we could install the DWG editor the
other engineers in our group would be able to make any minor changes they
want quickly and leave my inbox alone. My VAR contacted me and said it
isn't possible to install it without the rest of SW 2005 but it will run as
an independent exe.

Corey

 

So if i am understanding you right, you want to install the dwgeditor
without SW2005 just to make minor changes to dwg files ?
Why not install a Trail version of Intellicad, it is the same as the
dwgeditor.
or do you mean the SW drawingfiles (slddrw) ?

Bert

 

Good question. You could probably break the links by changing name of
SldWorks.exe or it's path. It may still run fine though if the user
searched out the exe. Or You could possibly write an addin that would shut
it down as soon as it started.

Corey

 

Download a trial version from CADopia www.cadopia.com, it is exactly
the same as the DwgEditor in SolidWorks 2005 (you may even check it in
the About DwgEditor under Help menu!).