A Free Template For Creating PDMWorks Enterprise Addins - It’s Automagically Delicious
July 17, 2008
API development and customization is all about automating repetitive tasks and I am sometimes amazed at how much I have been able to do over the years to make end users’ daily tasks easier to accomplish. One place I have fallen short, however, is automating my own repetitive development tasks. That is why decided to create a Visual Studio Template to automate the creation of PDMWorks Enterprise Addins. This is similar to the SolidWorks Software Development Kit offered by SolidWorks for developing SolidWorks Addins.
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PDMWE Number Generator - Part Deaux
July 9, 2008
Over the past few months I have received numerous emails from folks using the original PDMWE Number Generator. It is such a simple little app that I was pleasantly surprised at all of the nice feedback people gave me regarding it. To show my appreciation, I have modified the Number Generator to allow it to work with multiple serial number sequences ”on the fly.”
You have always had the ability to set up muliple serial number generators in PDMWorks Enterprise but now the user can decide at File/Folder creation time which serial number to use. An anticipated use case with this improved version of the tools is for users who have multiple categories of parts with numbers being assigned by category. Note: Even though the functionality has been expanded, the tool is still very easy to install and configure.
So how does it work?
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Who? Me?…PDMWorks Enterprise API Development Gotchas With .NET
June 18, 2008
A year or two ago I read a book that changed the game for me. The book was called .NET Gotchas and it made me about 10x more effective as a developer. The book details 75 common pitfalls with .NET development and explains how to avoid them. I was knee-deep in a few of those pitfalls when I found the book at my local library. In fact, I was at the library specifically to get help for a few problems I was having with a PDMWE Addin project that I was working on at the time. The addin was written for Read more
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Setting Up and Troubleshooting Your SolidWorks Add-in Development Environment. Take off, eh…
June 12, 2008
Writing Add-ins in SolidWorks can be tricky stuff as it involves class libraries, COM, interfaces, etc… It can be argued whether it is easier or harder in .NET (ease of use of .NET versus pain in the rear of COM Interop) but your good friends at SolidWorks set out to make it easy on all of us by creating Visual Studio templates for quickly creating SolidWorks Add-ins. Read more
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Free SolidWorks Add-In To Remind You To Eat Your Custom Properties
February 23, 2008
In spite of all their positive benefits, which are many, more than a few SolidWorks users look upon custom properties with the same disdain that a pre-schooler would have for green leafy vegetables. You can explain the benefits of custom properties, how they help you find things, how they lead to healthy drawing title blocks, how they improve PDM implementations, etc… until you are blue in the face and with some individuals you still won’t make a dent. There might be a change for a few days even a few weeks but inevitably you are back to files with no custom properties filled out.
In order to increase the life-expectancy of CAD administrators everywhere, I have posted a free .NET Add-In for SolidWorks that will “remind” your users to enter certain custom properties whenever they create a new file or save an existing one (after the initial save). The list of custom properties is configurable and
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