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electronic redlining in solidworks??
i'm looking for suggestions on how to redline (mark up) a solidworks drawing electronically. does anyone on here do red lines electronically? is there a way to track changes (like in ms word)? would edrawings be the best option for this?
currently we use real red pens on real paper, but it's been suggested to me that this practice is archaic at best.
jl
jack lapham
design systems engineer (e20)
leupold & stevens, inc.
there's no way to redline with history within solidworks unless you use pdmworks between individual redline iterations. if you do this, you can set up a layer on a drawing with the color red and set it to the default when the drawing is loaded. or set up an annotation view for this purpose if within a model.
there is no way to actually track changes like in ms word though.
matt lorono
cad engineer/ecn analyst
silicon valley, ca
i would recommend doing markups on pdfs while iterating the drawings between each set of markups. i have not used edrawings in a while, but my recollection is that it had pretty good markup funcitonality, not sure about the track changes though.
-dustin
professional engineer
certified solidworks professional
certified cosmosworks designer specialist
certified solidworks advanced sheet metal specialist

shaggype,
when you say do the markups on pdfs, are you talking about electronic or by hand?
jack
jack lapham
design systems engineer (e20)
leupold & stevens, inc.
you can mark-up your drawings if you put them into edrawings format.
dan
jack,
you would be able to achieve this using edrawings and a file archive system such as pdmworks. you would essentially have revisions of drawings, models, assemblies, and edrawings in your folders. of course the edrawings would not be the same revision as the drawings, models, or assemblies but at least you would have the saved iterations of the red lines electronically.
i like matt's approach as well by creating a layer on the drawing or annotation view.
i guess it is up to you and your company on how you want to interact with this type of process. if you have vendors outside that do not have solidworks but occasionally need to mark-up drawings i would try using the edrawings method. also if you had pdm enterprise (pdmworks on steroids) this process could be built-in.
best regards,
jon
gemini cad solutions
i would mark it up manually and then scan it as a pdf for history. it's easier that doing an electronic markup.
colin fitzpatrick (aka macduff)
mechanical designer
solidworks 2008 sp 4.0
dell 490 xp pro sp 2
xeon cpu 3.00 ghz 3.00 gb of ram
nvida quadro fx 3450 512 mb
3d connexion-spaceexplorer
it may be archaic but i prefer having a hard copy sitting in front of me to red-line.
i haven't used edrawing but we have used pdf's to do mark-ups and comments.
it's easier than doing an electronic markup.
colin fitzpatrick (aka macduff)
mechanical designer
solidworks 2008 sp 4.0
dell 490 xp pro sp 2
xeon cpu 3.00 ghz 3.00 gb of ram
nvida quadro fx 3450 512 mb
3d connexion-spaceexplorer
cadgemini,
for what it's worth, we have pdmworks enterprise.
i prefer redlining a hard copy print myself, but i need to investigate this possibility.
it sounds like edrawings is the most likely option so far.
thanks for the responses you guys,
jack
jack lapham
design systems engineer (e20)
leupold & stevens, inc.
i haven't tried it (or even heard of it before) but this program redlines native sw drawings.