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Hide SolidWorks menu bar

Question asked by Ioan Bordei on Sep 19, 2018
Latest reply on Aug 12, 2020 by Jorn Bjarning

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It is possible to hide all of the user interface elements, including the SolidWorks menu bar?

Artem Taturevych Sep 19, 2018 5:18 AM

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Could you please clarify why do you want to do this?

There is no direct API for doing this

I see several options:

All menus and commands are windows controls so they can be hidden via native Windows API. You can get the HWND from the SOLIDWORKS frame and traverse controls to hide them
You can use SOLIDWORKS as an OLE object embedding. An example of this would be a SOLIDWORKS model embedded to Excel spreadsheet. In this case you can only work with the model but no controls are visible. You will also need to involve native APIs to embed SOLIDWORKS model
If you only need to disallow users to do any modifications you can disable the menus and commands. For me this is a preferable option as you can do it via SOLIDWORKS API without the need of involving any native Windows API. Please take a look at this example: Block Model Editing

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Artem Taturevych Sep 19, 2018 5:18 AM

Could you please clarify why do you want to do this?

There is no direct API for doing this

I see several options:

All menus and commands are windows controls so they can be hidden via native Windows API. You can get the HWND from the SOLIDWORKS frame and traverse controls to hide them
You can use SOLIDWORKS as an OLE object embedding. An example of this would be a SOLIDWORKS model embedded to Excel spreadsheet. In this case you can only work with the model but no controls are visible. You will also need to involve native APIs to embed SOLIDWORKS model
If you only need to disallow users to do any modifications you can disable the menus and commands. For me this is a preferable option as you can do it via SOLIDWORKS API without the need of involving any native Windows API. Please take a look at this example: Block Model Editing

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Jorn Bjarning @ Artem Taturevych on Aug 12, 2020 8:54 AM

Artem Taturevych, I just stumbled across this post and your answer. I have been asked to create an application where SOLIDWORKS is going to run in a small low resolution screen at a production machine. SOLIDWORKS will be controlled by a small configurator application and the user does not to be able to work manually with SOLIDWORKS. So in order to reduce complexity for the user and also in order to optimize space at the small screen we would like to run SW with all menus hidden - with only the graphical window visible.

Can you elaborate a little more about how to use Windows API to hide menus in SOLIDWORKS - push me in the right direction - maybe with a link to an example showing a principle solution for how to do it. Thank you :-).

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Artem Taturevych Sep 19, 2018 5:18 AM
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Could you please clarify why do you want to do this?

There is no direct API for doing this

I see several options:
- All menus and commands are windows controls so they can be hidden via native Windows API. You can get the HWND from the SOLIDWORKS frame and traverse controls to hide them
- You can use SOLIDWORKS as an OLE object embedding. An example of this would be a SOLIDWORKS model embedded to Excel spreadsheet. In this case you can only work with the model but no controls are visible. You will also need to involve native APIs to embed SOLIDWORKS model
- If you only need to disallow users to do any modifications you can disable the menus and commands. For me this is a preferable option as you can do it via SOLIDWORKS API without the need of involving any native Windows API. Please take a look at this example: Block Model Editing
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- Jorn Bjarning @ Artem Taturevych on Aug 12, 2020 8:54 AM
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  Artem Taturevych, I just stumbled across this post and your answer. I have been asked to create an application where SOLIDWORKS is going to run in a small low resolution screen at a production machine. SOLIDWORKS will be controlled by a small configurator application and the user does not to be able to work manually with SOLIDWORKS. So in order to reduce complexity for the user and also in order to optimize space at the small screen we would like to run SW with all menus hidden - with only the graphical window visible.
  
  Can you elaborate a little more about how to use Windows API to hide menus in SOLIDWORKS - push me in the right direction - maybe with a link to an example showing a principle solution for how to do it. Thank you :-).
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