Hi, Currently one of the most common questions among the SOLIDWORKS API developers writing code in .NET (C# or VB.NET) is if add-ins should be ported/developed in .NET Core/NET6 or if it is still better to use .NET Framework. In this video, I am explaining how to create SOLIDWORKS add-ins in .NET Co...

Hi Mattia Bianchi , is there any chance you can send this model so I can troubleshoot? I have a lot of problems with IMassProperty2 (not as many as I had with IMassProperty), but I have found a few workarounds so want to give it a run on your model). The workarounds are applied in xCAD: https://gith...

Are you working in assembly? If so you might want to disable this option as it significantly affects the performance while selecting for large assemblies: https://www.codestack.net/solidworks-ap ... into-view/

Try to use the API only selection: https://www.codestack.net/solidworks-ap ... selection/
or batch selection: https://www.codestack.net/solidworks-ap ... t-objects/

Thank you for the mention, mattpeneguy . I like your idea with a macro feature linked to the external file which will always update the properties (this is a great fit for the macro features). I will add this to CodeStack next week (I am publishing weekly short videos of Macro Of The Week - so this ...

Check this macro: https://www.codestack.net/solidworks-ap ... ng-entity/

Check this: https://www.codestack.net/visual-basic/ ... se-folder/
And this (if you need to browse for file as well): https://www.codestack.net/visual-basic/ ... owse-file/

Hi, I would recommend not to switch to .NET Core/NET5/6 just yet if you are developing add-ins until SOLIDWORKS officially supports this. It is OK to use .NET Core/NET5/6 in stand-alone applications though. One of the main limitations of .NET Core/.NET5 is an inability to load two different versions...

Try this macro: https://www.codestack.net/solidworks-ap ... -sketches/ it hides or shows all sketches (including components if in the assembly)

BOM+ (https://cadplus.xarial.com/bom/) has an option to generate flat BOM. Here is the video demonstration (2:10 mark about the flat BOM): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkUi_81mb0I&t=130s And here is the macro to write the qty to the custom property so you can then use it for naming: https://w...

@DLZ_SWX_User, I have just published this new macro yesterday which addresses this issue:

laukejas , here is the counter-part of the above example: https://www.codestack.net/solidworks-api/geometry/read-body-from-file/. Also this example might be helpful (this stores/restores the body into the file's 3rd party stream): https://www.codestack.net/solidworks-api/geometry/store-restore-body...

@Maha Nadarasa, @zxys001, @Lukas

I have added this macro to CodeStack: https://www.codestack.net/solidworks-ap ... -features/

dave.laban , I have updated the original macro and you can now pre-select coordinate system to import points relative to. And you also have an option to import points using the current document coordinate system. I have updated the macro and you can redownload from CodeStack. Please let me know if ...

You can tidy up your tree with this macro: https://www.codestack.net/solidworks-ap ... uentially/ and after it should continue with the next available number as the index for new feature

Hi Frederick, Solidworks templates are not supported in visual studio versions > 2015. That's why I still have a visual studio 2015 installed on my pc (only for using the template). After creating a new project with the template , close it and open it with VS 2019. You probably do the same? ;) Arte...

Eddy Alleman , Frederick_Law thank you for the mention! That's the problem with API. Different program do it differently. API for IV, SW, Excel will be different. Programmer need to learn how they behave and what to use to do what. This is one of the reasons I actually started xCAD.NET . One of the...

Hi, I am trying to write a macro that goes through the assembly, collects all solid bodies from all the components, then creates a virtual part inside the assembly, and places copies of all these solid bodies into that virtual part as temporary bodies. I need the temporary bodies in that virtual pa...

I found this awesome macro over there https://www.codestack.net/solidworks-api/document/macro-feature/link-cut-list-properties/ . But @artem is there a way to make it copy and link the cutlist props to the config specific props instead of the custom props? Jaylin Hochstetler , take a look at these ...

@Jaylin Hochstetler , great, glad it helped. Do you remember what was the error when you check 'Automatically Save'? I am now building a new version of CAD+ and will be keen to fix this issue as well.

rosenrob , you can use this macro: https://www.codestack.net/solidworks-api/import-export/export-multi-formats/. It is pretty flexible with output folder and file naming (you can use a combination of free text, file name, custom property value etc.) and you can even use this to generate sub-folders...

@berg_lauritz, yes, as long as the files are locally cached. The future version will have full support for PDM so no need to cache files locally.

Macro recorded should record this for modification of a single part. Then you can run this macro for all components in the assembly using Batch+: https://cadplus.xarial.com/batch/assembly/ (just test it on a spare part before running batch to make sure it is modifying units correctly). Here is the v...

Thank you, Alex!

Hi All,

Here is a big library of free macros with detailed descriptions. Hope you find something useful there: https://www.codestack.net/solidworks-tools/

what language do you use to write APIs or would you use if you decided to try it? I am thinking VBA, but maybe I am wrong, so I want to know what you are using or would want to use For something small which will not require lots of maintenance VBA macros are good (still good), although the VB6 lang...