SolidWorks Application Programming Interface (API) can be used to automate and customize the SolidWorks software. Below are some custom created API’s offered by our SolidWorks API developers.
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The following is a collection of SolidWorks sorted by category:
| Category: Part/Assembly/Drawing |
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| Copying an Assembly and Replacing its Child Components in the Copy (VBA) |
| How to modify and reference equations defined in assembly components |
| Remove Materials from all parts in an assembly |
| Add a Component And Smart Mate It |
| Close and Reopen a Drawing Document (VBA, VB.NET, C#) |
| PropertyManager Page Add-in Tutorial (C#/VB.NET, SolidWorks 2012) |
| SheetMetal:Using Multi-Body Flat Patterns In a Drawing |
| Check BOM Table Cells for Broken Link Values |
| Using ISldWorks.PostMessageToApplication from C# |
| Recursively List All Components using SolidWorks Document Manager |
| Find Features for Edges in Drawing Views (VBA, VB.NET, and C#) |
| Selectively Open Assembly |
| Using IComponent2::GetCorresponding in Assembly\Sub-Assembly\Part Hierarchy |
| Finding the Sketch Block Instance to Which a Sketch Segment Belongs |
| An explanation of the knot vector for periodic bsplines |
| How to move a table anchor's position (VBA) |
| How to access information about a hole generated by the Hole Wizard (VBA, VB.NET, C#) |
| How to change position of dimensions in drawings (VBA, VB.NET, C#) |
| How to move all dimensions in a drawing to another layer (VBA, VB.NET, C#) |
| How to get the parent component of a selected assembly component (VBA, VB.NET, C#) |
| Determining whether an assembly component is being edited in-context (VBA, VB.NET, C#) |
| How to replace an assembly component with a component from a different path (VBA, VB.NET, C#) |
| How to re-position a view in a drawing (VBA, VB.NET, C#) |
| How to reload a drawing sheet format (VBA, VB.NET, C#) |
| How to change a drawing view to shaded (VBA, VB.NET, C#) |
| How to create a drawing of a flattened sheet metal part (VBA, VB.NET, C#) |
| How to export an assembly component to a Parasolid file (VBA, VB.NET, C#) |
| How to locate a model entity in the space of a drawing view (VBA, VB.NET, C#) |
| How to insert a SolidWorks BOM at a selected point in a drawing view (VBA, VB.NET, C#) |
| How to work with RapidDraft drawings (VBA, VB.NET, C#) |
| Insert Note Leader at Sketch Point (VBA, VB.NET, and C#) |
| How to create an empty drawing view |
| Delete All Notes on a Specified Layer (VBA, VB.NET, and C#) |
| Delete Selected Sheet and Add New Sheet (VBA, VB.NET, and C#) |
| Add Hole Callout to Hole in Drawing (VBA, VB.NET, and C#) |
| PropertyManager Page Add-in Tutorial (VB.NET/C#, SolidWorks 2010) |
| How to get assembly components and sub-components in the order that they appear in the FeatureManager design tree |
| Drawing into the OpenGL Context |
| Position a bubble tooltip in a Drawing |
| Adding multiple PropertyManager pages (x32) |
| Automating and customizing BOM tables (VBA) |
| Position a bubble tooltip in a Part or Assembly |
| Continuously capture images of a model on repaint notification (VBA) |
| How to Align Notes in a Drawing |
| Using PropertyManager pages to select model elements and store them as attributes (VB.NET add-in) |
| Add sheet metal bend information to drawing view notes (VBA) |
| Suppress all equations in an assembly |
| Draw Bend Lines in a Flat Pattern Drawing View |
| A variant of the "Get Components in Each BOM Table Row (VBA)" example for getting BOM table information from an assembly |
| Create User-Defined Popup Menus and Context-Sensitive Menu Icons |
| An example of renaming components |
| How to drag-and-drop with preview into SolidWorks |
| Creating equally spaced points on a curve |
| Create PropertyManager page containing an ActiveX control |
| Iterate over mates in an assembly |
| Get the mass properties for all configurations |
