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Welcome to SolidWorks Workgroup PDM API

SolidWorks Workgroup PDM is a project-data management application designed to run both natively inside of the SolidWorks environment and as a standalone application.

The SolidWorks Workgroup PDM Application Programming Interface (API) is an OLE programming interface to SolidWorks Workgroup PDM, which allows you to automate and customize SolidWorks Workgroup PDM. The API contains functions that you can call from Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), VB.NET, C++ 6.0, C++/CLI, and C#. These functions provide direct access to the SolidWorks Workgroup PDM environment. It is assumed that you are familiar with at least one of these programming languages.

This online reference manual documents the objects and collections available in the SolidWorks Workgroup PDM API, including their associated methods and properties.

Sample Projects

Download the SolidWorks Workgroup PDM API sample project, which shows how to use the SolidWorks Workgroup PDM API to automate PDM communication, integration, and analysis.

NOTES:

You need WinZip installed on your computer to download the sample project. See http://www.winzip.com for details.

  • All of the sample code supplied is provided on an as-is basis, and is only intended to demonstrate ways of using the SolidWorks Workgroup PDM API. SolidWorks makes no representations or warranties regarding these samples. Any licensed user of SolidWorks Workgroup PDM is free to use any or all of these samples in connection with building applications related to SolidWorks Workgroup PDM, and is granted a royalty free, non-exclusive license for these samples, or parts thereof. Intellectual property rights of the samples remain with SolidWorks. Any confidentiality provisions of the SolidWorks Workgroup PDM license apply to the samples.
  • Some sample code might contain obsolete APIs.


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