SolidWorks

Extensible CAD will be exhibiting in booth #2 at SolidWorks World this year.  We will be showing InspectionXpert for SolidWorks, InspectionXpert First-Article and Office2PDM.  InspectionXpert is software that automates the creation of first article inspection sheets from CAD drawings.  Office2PDM is an addin for MS Office that enables you to work with Enterprise PDM from inside of Word, Powerpoint and Excel.

I will also be presenting personally on Enterprise PDM Customization on Monday at 1:30pm.  Unfortunately they scheduled me at the same time as Joy Garon’s What’s New In EPDM 2009 but that is just how it goes.  Stop by my session if you can and if not, then stop by our booth and say hello.

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From time to time I do presentations on the SolidWorks API and one that gets requested fairly often is the Beginner’s Guide To The API.  I just presented this in Roanoke, VA at the Blue Ridge SolidWorks User’s Group headed up by Jeremy Marks.  They were a good bunch of guys (although there was a University of North Carolina fan in attendance) and it seems like a well-run group.  However, after risking my life to get there by driving through what seemed the rain-storm of the century on unfamiliar mountain highways with almost no visibility I have decided that in the future it might be safer for me to simply make the presentation available on my blog : )

beginners-guide-to-the-api

Also, the SolidWorks Autonumbering Macro (w/ MS Access Database) that I usually show has been written up for ConnectPress with a link to download the Macro and Database.  You can view that article here:

http://www.solidworkscommunity.com/feature_full.php?cpfeatureid=32314

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Due to blackmail and extortion a request from my good friend Rohizzle, I have updated the popular Number Generator to work with 2009.  I have not made any enhancements so you can refer to the previous version’s post for instructions. 

Net:  This is an addin for SolidWorks Entperprise PDM that enables users to pick, at run-time, the numbering sequence to use for auto-numbering.

2009 Version Download

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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.  continue

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Disclaimer:  This post isn’t directly API-related but using logic statements in SolidWorks equations is so useful that I decided to post it.  Also, the syntax is in a kind of “techno-weenie-ese” so I thought I would help folks with the syntax. 

 The SolidWorks equation editor is a very useful, powerful and yet easy to use tool for building design intent into your SolidWorks model.  However, most people don’t take full advantage of its power.  In addition to support for constants, which are nice, the equation editor allows If…Then type logic statements.  The idea is that you can set a dimension’s value to one of two values depending on the veracity of a logic statement pertaining to another/other dimension(s).  Say what?….

 Time for an example…

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