Macro - Save as PDF & JPEG

Hi James,

This forum has been a huge help in crafting my own export macro. So maybe i can give back a little.

I copied a chuck of macro from a larger macro, this roughly does what you're asking for. it will also export a dxf and step(of the associated part or assembly)

It gets the revision info from the custom properties of the part, so that's not exactly what you're asking. But there's also code to look up the latest revision in a table, so with a little re-work you should be able to get what you need.

I have little programming experience so this might not adhere to best programming practises and being from a larger macro, there are some Dim's that aren't used.

Hope this helps!

Br, Jan-Willem.

Here is the example in the API help for saving a drawing as a PDF:

2015 SOLIDWORKS API Help - Save File as PDF Example (VBA)

I believe you should be able to use "Saveas" to save as a JPEG file as well, I've never tried that.

Here is the example to get data from the revision table:

2015 SOLIDWORKS API Help - Get Revision Table Example (VBA)

To set your file name just make a string like this:

pdfFile = "C:\Location\" & PartNumber & "-" & Revision & ".pdf"

If you need to pull the part number from custom properties use "Get5".

2015 SOLIDWORKS API Help - Get Custom Properties for Configuration Example (VBA)

Check out this post

https://forum.solidworks.com/message/526055#comment-526055

If you want to search for more go to

Forum SEARCH RESULTS - Over 160,000 Search Returns - Excel  (10/10/2018)  Updated - Alin Vargatu & Visualize

Download the excel file and go through some posts on the pdf macros - look under Macros or the API tab