5 Replies Latest reply on Jun 4, 2015 12:18 PM by Adam Hoffman

    .net code opens a new instance of SolidWorks

    Dennis Hvam
    Dennis Hvam Jun 4, 2015 5:04 AM

      Hello Guys,

       

      I'm working a little .net kode which first of all should just do a force rebuild of an open part in SolidWorks 2014:

      -------------------code-------------------

      Imports SolidWorks.Interop.sldworks

      Imports SolidWorks.Interop.swcommands

      Imports SolidWorks.Interop.swconst

      Imports System.Runtime.InteropServices

       

       

      Module ForceRebuildSld

       

       

          Dim swModel As ModelDoc2

          Dim swApp As SldWorks.SldWorks

          Dim TopOnly As Boolean

       

       

          Sub StartRebuild()

       

              swApp = GetObject("", "SldWorks.Application")

              swModel = swApp.ActiveDoc

       

              'Forces a rebuild of all of the features in the model whether they need a rebuild.

       

              If swModel Is Nothing Then

                  MsgBox("There was nothing in swModel:",, "Crowdforce")

              Else

                  If swModel.ForceRebuild3(True) Then

                      MsgBox("Forced rebuild successful",, "Crowdforce")

                  Else

                      MsgBox("This model has rebuild errors",, "Crowdforce")

                  End If

       

                  'save/close stuff

                  'swModel.Save()

       

              End If

          End Sub

       

      End Module

      -----------------code end-----------------

      It opens a second solidworks and therefore the swModel doesn't get any data, and it fails because there is nothing to rebuild.

      I'm very new to .net, any help would be greatly appreciated.

      Thanks in advance