Comments on: Setting Up and Troubleshooting Your SolidWorks Add-in Development Environment. Take off, eh…

By: Kishor

Kishor — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 10:38:12 +0000

This is very helpful.
Thanks

By: zbx

zbx — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 03:06:41 +0000

In “My Template” ,I can’t find SwVBAddin.

By: Babuji Reddy

Babuji Reddy — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:20:36 +0000

Hi Jeff,
I am trying to figure out why some computers with solid-works became sluggish. I was browsing the net and came across your blog.

Succinctly written !

I have a couple of questions. Per your procedure, since the existing dll is uninstalled before the new one is registered, would it be safer to manually create a restore point before uninstalling? This way, if another application fails because it’s expecting the other dll one could just go back to the restore point.

Do you see any problem with my logic?

Regards,
Babuji

By: Frederik

Frederik — Mon, 11 May 2009 13:42:28 +0000

What I do is just to uninstall the SolidWorksTools dll file in the GAC (right mouse button on the file in the GAC and select uninstall) and replace it with the version 1.0.0.1 file that SolidWorks API support gave me the first time I ever reported this issue (a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away…) . You can do this by simply dropping the file in the GAC folder (e.g. C:\Windows\assemblies).

From the above if it does not allaw you to uninstall this “cannot uninstall it is required by other program” what do you do.
Where do you get this new 2.0.0.0.1 dll file

By: Laxmikanth

Laxmikanth — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 11:59:30 +0000

I am new to solidworks api using c++ and vb. I could write macros using vba and i want to use c++ api, any help/tutorial or guidelines is highly appreciated. Thanks in advance