A cheaters way that I have used before is to get the file path of the part as a string and then change the .sldprt extension to .slddrw. As long as the part and drawing are in the same folder it works fine. If not it breaks down. Thanks for the reply! I might try that as a shortcut - it should work...

Hi everyone, I frequently want to get a handle for the drawing of a specific part (or vice versa) in order to sync PDM variable values, but there doesn't seem to be a clean way to get a drawing hook (similar to the "Open Drawing" button for a given part) through API. Anyone want to tell me...

One possibility is to go through all the features, and add the ones with type "Sketch" to a selection list. The help documentation has a pretty good example of how to do this here that you could more or less copy/paste into your macro: https://help.solidworks.com/2020/english/api/sldworksa...

A couple things if you don't mind a little "spit-balling": - What is revVarName? If I understand correctly this needs to be "Name of revision number component as specified in the administration tool." According to https://help.solidworks.com/2019/english/api/epdmapi/EPDM.Interop...

Hello, I have an API that is supposed to be setting the PDM vault revision counter, and runs without error, but does not actually write the new revision value. Background: I'm trying to set revisions for a vault of legacy data where the rev is stored in the custom properties via external PDM and PLM...

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