eDrawings

[wildo]

Having seen a demonstration of this program, it would appear to the (uneducated) naked eye that this program MAY be the solution to our multi-lingual manufacturing floor. They say a picture is worth a thousand words! Is anyone using eDrawings in place of (.drw) assembly drawings? Our manufacturing department takes the released documentation from Engineering and uses it in conjunction with a manufacturing generated "process sheet". To me, it seems to be redundant, as most of the information on our assembly prints (.drw's) is simply carried over to this process sheet. The assembler uses the "picture" (engineering prints, .drw's) and the instructional process sheet that is written by the manufacturing engineer which is derived from information off the engineering prints. The worst part is that, after all this, the assembler can't read english! So, if anyone is using eDrawings to convey engineering data to the manufacturing floor, I would be extremely interested in hearing about a specific implementation plan. Thanks

 

[MadMango]

I can only speak from the perspective at my company. The office is 90% native english speaking, while the production floor is 90% spanish speaking. Of the people that are on the production floor, only Supervisors have access to computers (perhaps 5 computers on the entire floor). Using Edrawings to communicate assembly processes would not work for us, or else we would have a que of people waiting to use the computers.

What we find that works the best is to print out exploded assembly drawings for the floor. But like you, manufacturing augments this with their own notes on a seperate (uncontroled) document that is annotated in spanish. Probably not much help, but at least you know there are others that feel your pain. "Happy the Hare at morning for she is ignorant to the Hunter's waking thoughts."

 

[krishnamurthy]

E-drawings may be usefull for sending by e-mail or sending only the picture of the part because it is better than sending .tiff file. The file size of e-drawing is very less and e-drawing viewers is available free from solidworks. The animation part of e-drawings helps in better visualization and understanding of the part.
For Manufacturing, in the floor. Isometric view, exploded view prints and assembly flowchart is still best.
Hope in future releases of e-drawings will help us to automate the assembly instructions, flowchart and assembling methods

 

[Timoteo]

I work for a Reseller Company of SW in Brazil.

Our clients use a lot E-drawings.
For example:
Our client must send files to a company that got none software CAD, but they realy need watch to the files.
E-drawings is very usefull to my company and for our clients.

Hope that helps...