Automating SOLIDWORKS 2006 using MACROS

This tutorial is designed to help beginner to intermediate programmers develop macros for SolidWorks and PDMWorks through the SolidWorks VBA interface and macro recorder. It teaches Visual Basic fundamentals as well as SolidWorks, PDMWorks and Excel API functions.

Table of Contents

1. Macro Basics
2. Model Parameters Using Excel VBA
3. Controlling Options
4. Material Properties
5. Custom Properties
6. Model Creation
7. Data Import
8. Drawing Automation
9. Working with File References
10. PropertyManager Pages
11. Using Notifications (Events) in SolidWorks Macros
12. PDMWorks API Basics
13. Extract PDMWorks Documents
14. PDMWorks Check In