However, there are still chargeable product variants and options, such as eDrawings Professional with a greater variety of functions and eDrawings Publisher for converting CAD data from other CAD systems. The free viewer has a firmly defined range of functions that is sufficient for certain areas of application. As a rule, the native Solidworks data is converted into the eDrawings format and distributed for this purpose. Most users know and use eDrawings as a free viewer for Solidworks. The product name eDrawings was derived from this. Even if around 50% of the design is in 3D with Solidworks, many users still talk about 2D and 3D drawings. Popular 2D CAD systems are AutoCAD and its clones, such as Bricscad based on ODA and Intellicad, but also Solidedge and Solidworks. By definition, new drawings are initially 2D and have long been created electronically using CAD. Corresponding software is still available today. However, since the pixel data of a scan are difficult to process further, many of these files were vectorized either completely or in parts as soon as they had to be changed. Here they can be searched for and displayed very quickly. These were first scanned many years ago and stored in electronic archives.

We used to have huge archives with technical drawings on paper. EDrawing online and offline Viewer What is an eDrawing?Īn eDrawing is literally an electronic drawing.

Edrawings viewer.