E-Drawings Missing Feature?

"Ed" a écrit dans le message de news: snipped-for-privacy@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...

Not missing, just need to buy edraw pro to emit an edraw that permits it.

If you have e-drawings pro you need to enable that feature when you save the file. Then anyone can measure the geometry in the file.

Ed wrote:

As I understand, the only way to get edraw pro is to purchase Office Pro which is $2000 plus an extra $200 per year for support costs. At least is is what my VAR is telling me.

The real problem is that I don't need edraw pro! Not even my major clients or shops need pro, they all have MasterCam etc. that can read the SW files directly. This only effects the "occational" small shop that doesn't get enough SW drawing packages to make it worth anyone's trouble to purchase "pro". Normally the standard edraw would be perfect. But, without the ability to make a measurement, edraw is worthless, I may as well send PDF files because the basic package can not do much more then PDF. Besides just about everyone can read PDF files. .

Doesn't it seem like a marketing ploy to leave out this one feature that would make the standard edraw program useful?

Pro actually has a several additional capabilities for marking up etc. In some situations this may be useful, (like working on a big project from different offices- which I do not do) but I would not accept anything other then hard copy red-line copies for recording purposes anyway so except for occational measurements, the cost of Pro is very unreasonable.

Does anyone know of a simple viewer that allows measurements to be made with SW drawings and parts? A reasonable priced third party software?

Thanks,

Ed

You can buy eDrawings Pro stand-alone for around $1500, I believe.

WT

Jean Marc wrote:

As I understand, the only way to get edraw pro is to purchase Office Pro which is $2000 plus an extra $200 per year for support costs. At least is is what my VAR is telling me.

The real problem is that I don't need edraw pro! Not even my major clients or shops need pro, they all have MasterCam etc. that can read the SW files directly. This only effects the "occational" small shop that doesn't get enough SW drawing packages to make it worth anyone's trouble to purchase "pro". Normally the standard edraw would be perfect. But, without the ability to make a measurement, edraw is worthless, I may as well send PDF files because the basic package can not do much more then PDF. Besides just about everyone can read PDF files. .

Doesn't it seem like a marketing ploy to leave out this one feature that would make the standard edraw program useful?

Pro actually has a several additional capabilities for marking up etc. In some situations this may be useful, (like working on a big project from different offices- which I do not do) but I would not accept anything other then hard copy red-line copies for recording purposes anyway so except for occational measurements, the cost of Pro is very unreasonable.

Does anyone know of a simple viewer that allows measurements to be made with SW drawings and parts? A reasonable priced third party software?

Thanks,

Ed

AGREED:

The ability to measure is allowed by the file creator. Once enabled any eDrawing version can measure. Only the paid version of eDrawing Pro allows this.