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SOLIDWORKS Fundamentals

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SOLIDWORKS API

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Design Studies in SOLIDWORKS

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SOLIDWORKS Sustainability

SOLIDWORKS API

The SOLIDWORKS Application Programming Interface (API) is a COM programming interface to the SOLIDWORKS software. The API contains hundreds of functions that you can call from Visual Basic (VB), Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), VB.NET, C++, C#, or SOLIDWORKS macro files. These functions provide the programmer with direct access to SOLIDWORKS functionality.

To access the API help, click Help > API Help Topics.

There are tips, code fragments, and examples of API functions on the SOLIDWORKS Web page: www.solidworks.com/api

Search 'SOLIDWORKS API' in the SOLIDWORKS Knowledge Base.

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