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SolidWorks Sustainability is a software program that evaluates the environmental impact of a product's design throughout its lifecycle. SolidWorks Sustainability helps you see how decisions about material, manufacturing, and location impact the environment. Use SolidWorks Sustainability to compare the environmental impact of different designs and select a design that is more sustainable for both the product and the environment.

SolidWorks Sustainability processes a variety of environmental impact factors for a product design:

  • material,
  • manufacturing process and region,
  • use region,
  • transportation, and
  • end of life disposal

to calculate the impact that a product design has on the environment:

  • carbon footprint,
  • energy consumption,
  • air acidification, and
  • water eutrophication.

The SolidWorks Sustainability Application Programming Interface (API) is an OLE programming interface to SolidWorks Sustainability. The SolidWorks Sustainability API allows you to automate the life cycle assessment of a product and provides access to the resulting environmental impact factors. The API contains interfaces, functions, subroutines, methods, and properties that you call from Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), VB.NET, C++ 6.0, C++, and C# to directly access the SolidWorks Sustainability environment. It is assumed that you are familiar with at least one of these programming languages.

This online reference manual documents the interfaces, functions, subroutines, methods, and properties that are available in the SolidWorks Sustainability API. The SolidWorks Sustainability API examples demonstrate how to use the SolidWorks Sustainability API to evaluate the environmental impact of the designs of parts and assemblies.

NOTES:

  • The SolidWorks Sustainability API is only available with a SolidWorks Sustainability license. It is not available with SolidWorks SustainabilityXpress.
  • The SolidWorks Sustainability API only works for part and assembly documents.
  • Some SolidWorks Sustainability examples use specific documents while others do not. Examples with specific documents use documents that are also used in SolidWorks online tutorials. Be sure to not modify and save these documents when you use them to run the SolidWorks Sustainability examples.
  • All of the SolidWorks Sustainability examples are provided on an as-is basis and are only intended to demonstrate ways of using the SolidWorks Sustainability API. No representations or warranties are made regarding these samples. Any licensed user of SolidWorks Sustainability is free to use any or all of these samples in connection with building applications related to SolidWorks Sustainability and is granted a royalty-free non-exclusive license for these samples, or parts thereof. Intellectual property rights of the samples remain with SolidWorks Corporation. Any confidentiality provisions of the SolidWorks license apply to the samples


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