SolidWorks Enterprise PDM Application Programming Interface

SolidWorks Enterprise PDM’s application programming interface (API) gives you access to most of the functionality in SolidWorks Enterprise PDM. For example, you can programmatically:

• Manage:
  • Vaults and their views
  • Users and user groups
  • File and folder cards and their views
  • File references
  • Card variables and attributes
  • Workflows, states, and transitions
  • Tasks
• Access:
  • Vault items
  • History of files and folders
  • Versions and revisions of files
  • Templates installed in the vault
• Search vaults and browse vault folders
• Check files in and out of the vault
• Send messages to users
• Create add-ins

See the Release Notes for the updates made to recent releases of the SolidWorks Enterprise PDM API.

Applications 

You can write two types of applications using this API:

1. Stand-alone applications (.exe and .dll) that are called by other programs to use various features of SolidWorks Enterprise PDM.
2. Add-in applications that are called by SolidWorks Enterprise PDM when users perform actions like check in or check out of a file, add a file to the vault, change the state of a file, etc.

Primary Assembly Interops

SolidWorks Enterprise PDM includes a primary interop assembly (also called an interop) for use with stand-alone SolidWorks Enterprise PDM applications. The interop, EPDM.Interop.epdm.dll, is stored in the top folder of your SolidWorks Enterprise PDM installation, typically C:\Program Files\SolidWorks Enterprise PDM. A 32-bit interop is shipped with the 32-bit version of SolidWorks Enterprise PDM, and a 64-bit interop is shipped with the 64-bit version of SolidWorks Enterprise PDM. See Using .NET Framework 4.0 in Stand-alone Applications for more information.

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