Fundamentals: API Object Model

Discussion created by Artem Taturevych on Mar 23, 2019
Latest reply on Jul 4, 2019 by Artem Taturevych

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Hi,

SOLIDWORKS API object model contains hundreds of interfaces and thousands of methods and properties. When starting developing applications or macros for SOLIDWORKS it might be confusions to understand all the relationships to find the correct route of retrieving the pointer to the required object.

I have published the blog article with an interactive diagram for API object model. You can zoom, pan and click on the diagram blocks to explore the relationship. Link to blog article: Understanding API Object Model

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Artem

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Jerome De San Nicolás Jul 4, 2019 11:09 AM
ho ! that's so useful, thanks a lot.
I got a question, is it possible to go "up" ? for exemple Slection to Sleection manager to ModelDoc2 ect ???
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- Artem Taturevych @ Jerome De San Nicolás on Jul 4, 2019 7:07 PM
  Hi Jerome,
  
  In general it is not a common practice to have circular references in classes. However there are few methods which have this:
  
  IModelDoc2::Extension->IModelDocExtension::Document
  IModelDoc2::FeatureManager->IFeatureManager::Document
  
  May be few more, but that is about it. So there is no generic way to go up way for accessors. Sometimes it could be handy though.
  
  Thanks,
  Artem
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