eDrawings Pro

eDrawings® Pro is the professional 2D and 3D CAD collaboration app for the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch that can view native SolidWorks® files (part, assembly, drawings), eDrawings files and DraftSight® (DWG™, DXF™) files. You can easily view models and access configurations, drawing sheets, and exploded views for eDrawings files published from SolidWorks and all other supported CAD software.

Category	Price	Seller	Device
Productivity	$9.99	Dassault Systemes SolidWorks Corporation	iPhone, iPad, iPod

Markup! Measure! Section! eDrawings® Pro takes you to the next level of 2D and 3D collaboration with more functionality, including dynamic cross section views, measurements, markups & annotations and the unique ability to share it all by email!

eDrawings includes Augmented Reality (AR). This allows you to view your 3D models in 1:1 scale into the real world. By simply activating the device’s camera, you can bring your virtual 3D designs in a real context and see them in situ, sitting on your desk or on your conference room table or even in the palm of your hand, through your iPad, Pad mini, iPhone or iPod Touch’s screen. Move around the room and see your design from any perspective.

With an intuitive user interface, eDrawings® Pro enables you to dynamically view cross sections of your models in XY, YZ, or ZX directions from both sides and easily drag the cross section plane on screen or with a convenient slider. You can also measure distances in your designs, with easy-to-use selection filters for faces, edges, vertices and holes.

With eDrawings® Pro you can create markups on your drawings, including text notes, freehand notations, dimensions, cross-section views, photos and camera snapshots.

You can share your marked up eDrawings files with others for review and further comments. All markups with history are saved within the eDrawings file.

Features:
* Intuitive and easy-to-use user interface
* Visualize your 3D models in real context with Augmented Reality (AR)
* Open 3D (EASM, EPRT, SLDASM, SLDPRT), 2D (EDRW, SLDDRW, DWG, DXF) and associated files from any source: email attachments, cloud storage services (Dropbox™, SkyDrive®, Google Drive, YouSendIt®, and others), email, web and FTP sites, networks, and iTunes® File Sharing
* Zoom, pan, and rotate your 3D and 2D CAD data using multi-touch
* Browse your assembly components tree, model configurations and drawing sheets
* Hide, show, or make components transparent
* Select View mode: standard orthogonal views, shaded with edges, perspective view
* Play animated 3D standard views as well as 2D drawing views
* View your designs in full screen and double tap to fit it on screen
* Double tap zooms to drawing views
* Markup your designs and send to others and read others’ markups
* Measure your design data
* View cross sections of your 3D designs, even in AR mode
* Adapt the scale of your 3D model in AR mode
* Freeze the background in AR mode with viewpoint lock to prolong AR experience without holding up your device.
* Sample files included

For more information, visit:
http://www.edrawingsviewer.com

Reviews

Crash
kcvpr

The app crashes every time I try to open an sldasm file, no response to requests for help through the developer’s website.

Won’t open larger files
j17h17

Crashes whenever trying to open .sldasm files larger then 10 megabytes in size. Also can not explode drawings.

The measuring tool needs a lot of work
Jaybird099

I bought the standard eDrawings app and realized I couldn’t measure distances in a model or assembly, so I had to go back and buy this version of the app. Sadly, the measuring tool is really cumbersome and difficult to use. You have to hover the cursor icon over a surface, vertex, or line until that component turns red. Then to measure it, you have to tap the cursor. Sadly, half of the time when you do this, you end up tapping the wrong component. Then you can’t deselect the component. You just have to turn off the measuring tool, turn it back on, then try again. Why can’t the software engineers have a simple method for selecting and deselecting a component? Maybe two taps selects it and three taps deselects it? Then maybe four taps could deselect everything (like in the case where you are measuring the normal distance between two surfaces). In this scenario, I could double tap one surface, then go to another surface and double tap it. And if I accidentally double tap the wrong second surface, I could triple tap and deselect it. Then I could try again and double tap the second surface and get it right. Boom, I now have the normal distance. And then to deselect those two surfaces, I quadruple tap and everything is deselected so I can measure something else. Another issue I have is the precision of the measurements. I will have drawn something that’s exactly 3 inches long, but when I measure it in edrawings, edrawings tells me it’s 2.999 inches. Sorry edrawings, I know it’s actually 3 inches. And why can’t I set the dimensions to be displayed in fractions instead of decimals? It would be really nice if edrawings could display 2.4999 inches as 2 1/2 inches. Also, they need to work on the software that controls the model rotation and zooming in and out. When I get really close to a small component in a large assembly, the slightest finger movement on the screen will move the giant assembly way too much, and now I’ve lost the tiny component I needed to see. And finally, it’s really audacious to charge $9.99 for an app that doesn’t work very well. How about you release it for free until you work out all these issues, then you can start charging for it.

Not working
bsh27

Purchased recently, tried to use many time, as soon as i tried open app, it closes and redirects to iphone home screen. Dont buy it.

Crashes on open.
NotsoSiniSter

App doesn’t even open on iPhone 11 Pro on iOS 14.

Needs more support COME ON
Food Equipment Company

This application is great in theory, but in reality is hampered by the lack of support and updates. I can’t open any large assemblies with out crashing during rendering. This thing needs to get updated to work with iOS 14 come the f’ on. How much money are they earning from Solidworks subs. Spend that money to better support this app.

App repeatedly shuts down
rhino1163

When trying to open an assembly the app continually shuts down every time you try and open it. Has done this for months.

Great Potential - Not quite there yet
wwp2181

This app has come in handy on several occasions when showing models to clients and for meetings. It’s a bit cumbersome and could certainly use Apple Pencil support as well as a better AR tool. Unfortunately, the UI needs a lot of work, configurations don’t load well, surface textures don’t appear, and up until last month, it no longer recognizes my files since it only supports up to 2019 and I’m already at 2020. Hopefully SolidWorks will throw some more support behind this because it does come in handy at times. Would be nice if you could export drawings as PDF’s, models as .STP or .XT, use Apple’s AR kit to show case models for customers (and include texture support), and maybe, just maybe, since we’re already paying customers, include a version that would allow for model creation and not just be a viewer. My iPad Pro handles the models and assemblies just fine and the hardware is only getting better.