1st Edition

Automating SOLIDWORKS 2025 Using Macros A guide to creating VSTA macros using the Visual Basic.NET Language

By Mike Spens Copyright 2025
448 Pages
by SDC Publications

Engineers working with SOLIDWORKS are often faced with tedious, repetitive work that can consume a lot of time, but it doesn’t have to be this way. One of the most exciting aspects of SOLIDWORKS is its robust programming interface or API. The SOLIDWORKS API allows you to write code that can perform almost any series of actions for you. SOLIDWORKS was built from the ground up to automate, and in... Read more

1. Fundamentals

2. One Button PDF Publishing

3. Model Dimensions Using Excel VBA

4. Controlling Options

5. Material Properties

6. Custom Properties

7. Model Creation

8. Data Import and Export

9. Drawing Automation

10. Notes, Annotations and Tables

11. Building Assemblies

12. Working with File References

13. Document Manager API

14. Creating Add-Ins

15. Add-In Events and Installation

16. PDM Professional API Basics

17. PDM Professional Files and Variables

18. PDM Professional Bills of Materials

19. Favorite Code Examples

Index

Biography

Mike Spens