So until the 2019 release, an eDrawings file published in SOLIDWORKS Standard, when opened by a user with the free eDrawings Viewer would not have access to the measure tool. SOLIDWORKS Professional and SOLIDWORKS Premium come bundled with a license of eDrawings Professional, while the SOLIDWORKS Standard product comes with the free version of eDrawings. While this is the situation now, in the past the availability of the Measure tool was something that could seem confusing at first. If that is the case, you can install the latest release of the free eDrawings and you should get access to the measure tool (unless publisher of the file has disabled the option as described below). If you are using a version from before 2019, then only the Professional version of eDrawings would have access to the measure tool.

You can do this by going to Help > About eDrawings.

So if you are unable to activate the Measure tool, check to see if that the release is 2018 or older. Starting with eDrawings 2019, the measure tool is available in the free version of eDrawings Viewer. The first thing to check if you cannot use the Measure tool in eDrawings is, what release are you using? EDrawings Measure Active Which Release and which Version of eDrawings are you using?

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