As part of our exciting growth trajectory, Blue Byte Systems Inc. is seeking to bolster our team by inviting a skilled SOLIDWORKS API developer to join us on a contract basis. Non-negotiables: Proven proficiency with the SOLIDWORKS API. Extensive experience in developing C# Winforms applications usi...

Thank you! We're trying to build the API community there and share as much knowledge as possible. The website has been growing organically.

Maybe I'm reading too much into but you need to get the extreme points first of the flat pattern body and transform those to the coordinate system of the view from in the drawing. From there you can select the vertices and add the dimension. There are two settings in the display dimension where you ...

That is not correct. You can use the PDM API from VBA. To create a folder, you can use CreateFolderPath or AddFolder. Both are methods of the IEdmFolder5 interface. You can get a starting folder by using the RootFolder property of the EdmVault5 object. Here's a simple example: Dim swApp As Object S...

You cannot debug the task hooks using the debug add-in option from the administration tool, unfortunately. Even hooking into the host process is very annoying. We have a unit and integration testing framework for task add-ins : https://bluebyte.biz/product/orca-unit- ... m-add-ins/

There are many ways to go about this but not one ultimate way.

How about just checking if the derived configuration has a parent configuration and if it has some sheet metal bodies in the feature tree?

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User is already logged in and I do not want to enter password again. Help says, ChangeState2 added functionality of requiring the password of logged in user. I can only assume as a security measure so the programmer can show a dialog requiring the user to enter their password again. If I don't need...

Yea. Use a dictionary. Some thoughtful ideas from a seasoned developer. - Save your settings or options data to a dictionary. - Make sure the dictionary name is unique. I'd use the add-in name. - Control who can use EdmMenu_Administration to ensure only users with EditAddIns permission can access th...