Parts
Zooming methods and standard views are the same as assemblies. The Play button is also available, as fun as every. You can also select and highlight individual faces on parts.
DimXpert dimensions are supported for eDrawings part files (.eprt).
Drawings
Navigation in 2D CAD documents works a little different from assemblies and parts. Pan, zoom in and out, zoom fit and zoom home are available. There is logically no ability to rotate a drawing sheet into 3D space. When Play is used, you will see a slide show of each of the drawing views on the drawing.
Drawing sheets are also supported from a dropdown menu.
Bottomline
eDrawings for Android has enough functions to immediately make this tool useful for viewing SolidWorks and eDrawings files on Android devices of various types. The user interface is geared towards the tablet sized devices, but the app works well on smartphones too, being easy to use and intuitive.
eDrawings for Android is available as of August 12, 2013 from the Google Play store here: eDrawings from SolidWorks. There’s already a lot of activity on the Twitter hashtag #edrawings and more specific discussions are welcome on #edrawingsforandroid too. There is also some additional information found at the SolidWorks eDrawings Mobile website.
