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Rendering geometry for 3D viewing can be very intensive on a graphics card and one of the major hurdles for an “immersive” VR experience is that a drop in frame rate can ruin the experience. Google Cardboard, the easy-to-use viewer for which the new eDrawings is designed, does not put explicit restrictions on quality like headsets such as Oculus Rift and HTC Vive do. What is also unclear is the exact display rate possible during viewing. It is unclear whether or not true parallax viewing is enabled, where each view is from a slightly different angle, or if it is the same viewpoint displayed twice. This VR support uses the software’s mobile app to break out multiple views. Looking at an assembly using the mobile app’s VR support. Now, though, SOLIDWORKS is introducing its first native support for anything VR.

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The Pro version already allows for mobile app support of augmented reality (AR), where models can be overlaid onto real world objects and moving the mobile device around gives the feeling of physically manipulating a design. Now not only will the core SOLIDWORKS package import nearly every CAD file type, even its viewer is becoming agnostic as to where the original design files came from.Įxpanding the file types supported also begins to open up the market to new users. Adding support for CATIA V5 and Autodesk Inventor certainly helps, but also exciting is the support of IGES, OBJ, and 3DXML formats.

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While the professional version of eDrawings still requires a paid license, the support for additional file types makes the free version of the viewer even more powerful. Another four formats cover the world of 3D printing, including OBJ, STL, AMF and the potential new standard 3MF. In total, there are now 22 native CAD file formats supported. One of the major features is the added support for additional file types. The tagline for eDrawings (“The easiest way to share 3D data across multiple CAD Environments”) rings truer this year. Even though other core features will likely get most of the press, the updates to eDrawings for 2017 offer a glimpse into the future with broadened file support and the first use of the words virtual reality (VR)!Īn exploded view of an assembly in eDrawings. The excitement lands somewhere in the middle it is sure to grab a few headlines thanks to the first mention of a major buzzword in the design and 3D world. In 2017, eDrawings is causing a stir again.

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In 2015 the new feature was an update to make the measuring tool use file-specific dimensions rather than just defaulting to millimeters.

Since then, the updates have slowed down somewhat. Then, in 2014, the addition of a My. viewer that allowed for eDrawings review directly in a browser further expanded the potential for sharing and collaborating across devices. In 2012, the major announcement was support of a mobile eDrawings app, which was the first step for the company into using CAD on the go.

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The viewer, which is designed to allow a non-CAD user to manipulate and comment on files without requiring a full CAD package, hasn’t always had the best of times when it comes to updates. But engineers and CAD drafters are not the only ones who should poke their heads up, as the update also includes new features for the eDrawings viewer. For more than three million CAD users, it is that time of year again: A time when a market leader in the space, SOLIDWORKS, releases its latest updates and starts talking about all the new bells and whistles.

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