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Our company wants to show one assembly to a costumer using a tablet (for some reason) and I was wondering if one of those marvelous cloud products would work for it. (3DExperience, xDesign, 3D Creator, whatever)
Design was made in Desktop SW 2021, has 66 parts (almost 300 bolts/washers suppressed), and is able to do some movements in two axis or spinning.

Anyone has used it or saw some demonstration?

You can install the Edrawing app...

You also can export your assembly to eDrawing and save it as html.
Any browser (edge, Chrome, Firefox) can view/section/measure your assembly.

I often access my assemblies with my phone with this method.

I have used android app "CAD Assistant".
It can import STEP files and it works fast and awesome.

Tera wrote: ↑Wed Jun 08, 2022 4:00 am You also can export your assembly to eDrawing and save it as html.
Any browser (edge, Chrome, Firefox) can view/section/measure your assembly.

I often access my assemblies with my phone with this method.

Has to be a specific WEB HTML, and is only available in SW 2019 and later. The normal HTML doesn't work anywhere as far as I can tell.

Exporting to a 3d-PDF is also an option.

eDrawings (that is, open the sldasm/sldprt/slddrw directly) is a lot better on the tablet than in the past and the way to go, imho.

Is eDrawings free? We have 3 licenses of SW Premium. How many PCs are we allowed to install eDrawings?
Sorry for hijacking thread.

Thanks for the answers. ^^

Visualizing the assembly is fine, the problem would be being able to move it within the Mates established in SW.
I did test eDrawings, but it does not keep the Mates, right?

Lucas wrote: ↑Wed Jun 08, 2022 10:40 am Thanks for the answers. ^^

Visualizing the assembly is fine, the problem would be being able to move it within the Mates established in SW.
I did test eDrawings, but it does not keep the Mates, right?

It doesn't. You could create a quick motion study that shows the movement and publish an eDrawing. See attached, it's a EDrawing 2022 file so you'll need to install edrw 2022.

Too bad the HTML option can't show the Motion Study, this would be easiest on the customer.

https://storage.googleapis.com/edrawing ... Tenon.html

jcapriotti wrote: ↑Wed Jun 08, 2022 12:15 pm Too bad the HTML option can't show the Motion Study, this would be easiest on the customer.

https://storage.googleapis.com/edrawing ... Tenon.html

I think you can cheat it by making an 'exploded' view disguised as the motion study. Is the exploded view always pre-determined in edrawings?
Edit: I just tried it and although exploded views are not working very well you can still make a simple motion study with this trick.

Hmm, eDrawings is not bad, files open fast and can play animations with section planes active. Unfortunately the animation stops when the camera rotates, or is there a way to keep it playing?

I just noticed the thread title, "Solidwonks"

bnemec wrote: ↑Thu Jun 09, 2022 10:21 am I just noticed the thread title, "Solidwonks"

You need some Roddy Piper's Alien Glasses!

zxys001 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 10, 2022 12:04 am You need some Roddy Piper's Alien Glasses!

Nailed it lol

If you are looking for a simple tool for collaboration that allows you to load extremely large assemblies of any CAD tools in a browser look up Vertex Visualization tools. A killer tool and you are not exposing any IP to anyone, and your CAD data never leaves your premise.

Ry-guy wrote: ↑Tue Jun 21, 2022 3:20 pm If you are looking for a simple tool for collaboration that allows you to load extremely large assemblies of any CAD tools in a browser look up Vertex Visualization tools. A killer tool and you are not exposing any IP to anyone, and your CAD data never leaves your premise.

Interesting, thanks for the recommendation.

In the end we used the animations that I made. The e-drawings app still have some limitations, it doesn't import the animations, and the windows software wont allow to rotate the camera while it's playing.

tbh using an ipad/tablet is just a way to look for trouble while working, there are some 2-in-1 laptops available to be used as showoffs

Lucas wrote: ↑Tue Jun 21, 2022 7:56 pm Interesting, thanks for the recommendation.

In the end we used the animations that I made. The e-drawings app still have some limitations, it doesn't import the animations, and the windows software wont allow to rotate the camera while it's playing.

tbh using an ipad/tablet is just a way to look for trouble while working, there are some 2-in-1 laptops available to be used as showoffs

Vertex should allow you to pan and zoom around all you want. I believe you can create a fly thru path as well.. not totally sure on that.
This tool takes massive assemblies...like a parking lot full of dump trunks (fully detailed) or a submarine. I've even seen a aircraft carrier with jets used in this tool. It uses some cool technology to "fracture" brep models into slices and then you view only slices..so model size is really irreverent. The closer you get the more detail you get too.