eDrawings for Android

Imagine you are going to purchase a part from another country for a particular task. Although you know the function performed by the part when installed on assigned place but there is a question. How this part looks like? Through which mechanism, the corresponding part perform the required task?

The integration of computers with graphical capabilities is the best solution to this problem. Now, by using 3-D modeling softwares, not only one can develop a 3-D model but also the transmission of this model in the form of e-file is as easy as drinking the water in front of sweet water fountain.

But the global community is still feeling that something is missing. The modern society is now using micro devices like smart phones, tablets etc. They need something so that they can view the 3-D models on their micro-devices.

As we can see that with respect to smart devices operating systems ‘ANDROID’ is the most powerful and biggest stakeholder. But unfortunately, the global community using android technology is restricted with respect to 3-D viewing capabilities. Now this dead front is over, and the credit goes to SolidWorks for introducing eDrawings viewer for android operating systems.

Now the eDrawings viewer is available on Google play store. It can be downloaded from the following link:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.solidworks.eDrawingsAndroid

eDrawings viewer is a sophisticated android app aiming at providing the all viewing facilities with respect to three dimensional models. With the help of this app you can view different parts created in SolidWorks as well as the assemblies. This app is capable of transforming the e-file into readable format. Also this app is capable of producing the drawings with transferable format.

This app is designed by keeping in view the fully integrated touch technology. You can pan, zoom, rotate model with the swipe of just a finger. So you can say that this app just a step to transform the e drawings into physically touchable things (in a sense).

Here are some of the features of this great app announced by SolidWorks blog:

• Intuitive and easy-to-use user interface
• Open 3D (EASM, EPRT, SLDASM, SLDPRT), 2D (EDRW, SLDDRW) and associated files from any source: email attachments, cloud storage services (Dropbox, SkyDrive, Google Drive, Hightail, and others), Web and FTP sites and network folders.
• Zoom, pan and rotate your 2D or 3D CAD data using multi-touch
• Animate 3D standard views
• Browse your 2D drawing sheets
• View your designs in full screen and double tap to fit it on screen
• Sample files included

Here are some requirements to run this application:

eDrawings for Android supports any Android device running Android 4.0 or higher. It is optimized for use with 7″ – 10″ tablets form factors, including the Google Nexus 7, Google Nexus 10, Samsung Galaxy Tab 7 and Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.

So to enhance the experience of 3-D modeling it is recommended to download and install this app immediately on your android device and enjoy the 3-D models library of SolidWorks.

Review By: Engr. Ammar Aziz (BS-Mechanical Engineering)