Automating SOLIDWORKS 2017 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
• Features improved code structure to promote best-practices
• Fully revised for the SOLIDWORKS 2017 API calls

Automating SOLIDWORKS 2017 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

New to this edition

The entire text has been updated to use the latest SOLIDWORKS API methods. Additionally, the Macro code structure has been improved in many chapters to encourage programming best practices.