Automating SOLIDWORKS 2015 Using Macros

• Designed to teach you how to develop macros for SOLIDWORKS and the SOLIDWORKS Workgroup and Enterprise PDM
• Covers many of the major API functions through practical use cases
• Focuses on the Visual Studio Tools for Applications macro interface
• Contains a new chapter on the SOLIDWORKS Document Manager API and additional material on the Enterprise PDM API
• Fully revised for the SOLIDWORKS 2015 API calls

Automating SOLIDWORKS 2015 Using Macros is designed as a tutorial to help beginner to intermediate programmers develop macros for SOLIDWORKS and SOLIDWORKS Workgroup or Enterprise PDM. The focus of this book is primarily on the Visual Studio Tools for Applications (VSTA) macro interface. It covers many of the major API functions through practical use cases. It teaches many Visual Basic.NET fundamentals as well as SOLIDWORKS, SOLIDWORKS Workgroup or Enterprise PDM and Excel API functions. The Author has also added a chapter dedicated to some of his favorite source code for you to use as the basis for typical automation procedures.

What you'll learn

• Record macros
• Control Custom Properties
• Create parts and features
• Build assemblies
• Batch create drawings
• Extract information from PDM
• Create many other time saving utilities