tobias - Monday, November 10, 2008 4:44 PM:
Hi,
I have installed the eDrawings viewer program on my PC. I have attached .sldasm files to documents and I would now like to start eDrawings to view them.
In admin I've added a Viewer "eDrawings" with the URL pointing to the local executeable "C:Program FilesCommon FileseDrawings2008EModelViewer.exe"
For FileType "Solidworks" sldasm I point to the eDrawings viewer and set the MIME Type to "application/sldasm".
This does not seem to work. What is missing here ?
-tobias
gopalnayak - Tuesday, November 11, 2008 10:39 AM:
Viewer setting works if you have some web based viewer like jVue. For eDrawings, I suggest you assoiciate the file extension with the viewer on the client machines.tobias - Thursday, November 13, 2008 7:06 PM:
I have this accociation set. Double-clicking on a solidworks file on my windows desktop start eDrawings fine.
Any idea what MIME type I need to set ?
gopalnayak - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 11:53 AM:
I think you should remove the viewer setting first on the server. You need to configure the File type though. MIME type of application/octet-stream should work making the client to open the file with the associated viewer automatically. Hope this helps.rolfl - Wednesday, November 19, 2008 3:21 AM:
Hello Tobias,
I am with ARAS in Europe and we've had this topic with our partners. One of them actually found a way to register eDrawings as a viewer in which case you do not need the MIME type. We have documented this approach and placed the instructions to:
www.aras.com/university/TechNotes/DocumentView.aspx?file=How to setup eDrawings as client viewer KB-000105.pdf
I've also tried the MIME type suggested here (application/octet-stream), but could not get it to work. The file download popup starts but never finishes.
Rolf
tobias - Thursday, November 20, 2008 1:47 AM:
Rolf,
thank you. This works. With the eDrawings.html. I also could not get the MIME type to work.
Tobias
tbwork - Friday, February 11, 2011 8:47 AM:
Hallo Rolf.
I am just starting with ARAS and have the same problem.
Unfortunately, the link you provided is no longer active. Could you let me know, how I can find the instructions or post them as text file into the forum?
Thank you.
Thomas
MikeJones - Friday, June 24, 2011 9:37 AM:
Hi,
I'm just starting to evaluate ARAS S/W. I have installed V9.3 locally on my laptop and running it under SQL Server Express. I have installed eDrawings application and set up the viewer in ARAS as per KB-000105. When I click on a Solidworks file, it appears to download from the vault but the eDrawing application doesn't open to view the file. Any suggestions?
regards
Mike
walekarsa - Tuesday, September 29, 2009 9:10 AM:
Hi all,
I was able to integrate the viewer with Aras. however for files created by software other than Solid Works I had to first publish those Cad files in edrawing formats say eprt, easm and so on and then attach this viewer to the file type. However in actual scenario I may need the publishing to happen in the background and then associate the eprt to the correpsonding prt. how do I do these. Is there a script that i can run in the backgroung to create these files.
Ronan - Friday, February 11, 2011 10:49 AM:
The link is still active, it is just messed up because of the spaces in the filename. Here it is, decrapified.
MikeJones - Thursday, July 14, 2011 9:00 AM:
Followed the document relating to Ver 9.3.0 and it all works
tbwork - Friday, February 11, 2011 3:44 PM:
Thanks Ronan,
I did the installation as described, but get a ' The webpage cannot be found ' error. Can you help me with this?
Thomas
Ronan - Monday, February 14, 2011 9:35 AM:
Hi,
Please give more details: when does this happen? At which URL?
tbwork - Monday, February 14, 2011 10:21 AM:
Good Morning.
I get a HTTP 404 Not Found Error when clicking on the link in the 'Files' tab in a test document. The document is on the server (192.168.1.101) in C:ArasVaultInnovatorSolutionsC36A61582B3E4582882070F85538D3FD.
The properties of that page are as follows:
Protocol:
Unknown.
Address:
res://ieframe.dll/http_404.htm#192.168.1.101/.../eDrawings.html
Do I have to have the server mapped to the client computer?
Thank you.
Ronan - Monday, February 14, 2011 10:30 AM:
Does opening the URL without the eDrawings part work? I.e. :
http%3A//192.168.1.101/InnovatorServer/vault/vaultserver.aspx%3FdbName%3DInnovatorSolutions%26fileID%3DC36A61582B3E4582882070F85538D3FD%26fileName%3Dcad-00001061_0.asm
tbwork - Monday, February 14, 2011 10:52 AM:
No. I get the message "Internet Explorer could not find 192.168.1.101"
Strange. I can access all other documents (excel, word, etc) and I can access the server via 'remote desktop'.
Any suggestions?
Thomas
Ronan - Monday, February 14, 2011 11:16 AM:
How do you access to Innovator? (what is the URL you type to load it?)
tbwork - Monday, February 14, 2011 12:45 PM:
I start ARAS with ...
192.168.1.101/InnovatorServer
Ronan - Monday, February 14, 2011 1:04 PM:
Strange.
Before working with eDrawings, first try to get to work a vault URL following the syntax:
192.168.1.101/.../vaultserver.aspxDbName&fileID=FileID&fileName=FileFilename
tbwork - Wednesday, February 16, 2011 10:28 AM:
Ronan,
sorry for the delay.
I successfully opened a PDF file with the following URL:
192.168.1.101/.../vaultserver.aspx
Also this different CAD file (AutoCAD) opens successfully in eDrawings using this URL:
192.168.1.101/.../vaultserver.aspx
However, from ARAS I can open the PDF file, but not the drawing file. The dwg file fails with "The webpage cannot be found".
Thomas
Ronan - Wednesday, February 16, 2011 11:46 AM:
Well now at least we are certain that:
- your vault is properly configured for direct access via vaultserver.aspx
- out-of-the-box embeds (like PDF) works
So yes the problem is on eDrawings side, and unfortunately I won't be able to help further. Review the documentation again, if possible try to inspect / debug the concerned files; let's hope somebody with experience on this viewer passes around. Good luck.
