Hosed eDrawings dimensions 1

[guimba]

Hello, I received an eDrawing recently from a design house and when I opened it all the dimensions had this weird 'overline' on them, see uploaded tiff. Any idea what's causing that? I'm running 2011 SP4. Thanks!

Mechanical Engineer
Field Forensics, Inc.

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[JMirisola]

I could be as much an export issue as it was an import issue. What is the native file format and what format did you import/open as?

Jeff Mirisola, CSWP
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[guimba]

It was saved as an slddrw and I opened it up with eDrawings like usual.

Mechanical Engineer
Field Forensics, Inc.

Engineering isn't about perfect solutions; it's about doing the best you can with limited resources. - Randy Pausch

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

Does that happen with every slddrw opened in eDrawings, or just the one from the design house?

 

[guimba]

No, just the ones I get from them. I can work around it, just annoying.

Mechanical Engineer
Field Forensics, Inc.

Engineering isn't about perfect solutions; it's about doing the best you can with limited resources. - Randy Pausch

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

How do the dimensions appear when you open the slddrw in SW?

 

[guimba]

They open up just fine in SW, no weird dims or text. And I just opened up one of my own that I had made a while back, see upload, and it gets messed up too. My concern is would others get the same when I send them an slddrw to open on their eDrawings viewer?? Thanks.

Mechanical Engineer
Field Forensics, Inc.

Engineering isn't about perfect solutions; it's about doing the best you can with limited resources. - Randy Pausch

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

Post one or two here for testing.

 

[guimba]

Here goes...

Mechanical Engineer
Field Forensics, Inc.

Engineering isn't about perfect solutions; it's about doing the best you can with limited resources. - Randy Pausch

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

No problem here.

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

Make sure your graphics card driver is suitable for you system specs.

http://www.solidworks.com/sw/support/videocardtesting.html

 

[guimba]

You've got a point there. I checked the tested drivers and they don't list any of the GeForce ones from NVIDIA. That would probably be the issue. Thanks for opening that up on your end. I will try the version of eDrawings I have at work which uses a different graphics card and see what happens. Cheers...

Mechanical Engineer
Field Forensics, Inc.

Engineering isn't about perfect solutions; it's about doing the best you can with limited resources. - Randy Pausch

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

None of the GeForce or Radeon cards are approved for SW. Some people have no problems when using them, but others have nothing but problems.