The new version of SolidWorks eDrawings Professional, available today, includes the first-ever ability to drag and drop eDrawings models directly into Microsoft Office files, including Word and PowerPoint® documents, and preserve their full interactivity. This enables a design engineer giving a presentation to pan, zoom, rotate, and animate models to increase audience impact.

SolidWorks® eDrawings Professional software, included in every license of SolidWorks Office Premium 3D CAD software, lets users generate accurate representations of 2D and 3D product designs that anyone in product development can view, mark up, and measure, regardless of whether they have CAD software.

SolidWorks eDrawings Professional adds publishing/viewing support for AutoCAD 2007 drawings, AutoCAD 3D files, and AutoCAD layers, including the selective activation of layers in a drawing set. These capabilities will help more than 300,000 AutoCAD users who use SolidWorks software communicate with colleagues to design better products.

SolidWorks eDrawings Professional for the first time enables users to view, mark up, and measure files created in Google SketchUp software, a free application for quick and easy 3D form creation in the conceptual stages of design. Yet another enhancement lets SolidWorks eDrawings Professional users for the first time apply electronic stamps to eDrawings models to signify they are “approved,” “confidential,” “draft,” or subject to any custom designation.

These new features continue to ensure that product design is open not only to those who possess 3D CAD software, but to anyone with email, including sales, marketing, customer service, clients, and partners.

The new version of SolidWorks eDrawings Professional is available now at http://www.solidworks.com/pages/products/edrawings/eDrawings.html

A free version of eDrawings that works for users of all major CAD systems is available at http://www.solidworks.com/pages/programs/eDrawings/e2_register.html