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Application Programming Interface

See SOLIDWORKS 2015 API Help Release Notes for late-breaking updates.

SOLIDWORKS 2015 includes the ability to:

  • Access the ISafeArrayUtility interface.
  • Access scenes.
  • Insert a table-driven pattern feature.
  • Get or set pattern elements.
  • Specify offsets when inserting a linear-pattern feature.
  • Get or set sunlight advanced properties, get the length of the day for the current sunlight, and update sunlight.
  • Get or set the components and transforms for interferences.
  • Specify more document printing options.
  • Get or set how to replace components when keeping missing items in BOM features.
  • Get or set the display states in which a specified appearance is applied, get the appearances applied in specified display states, and get whether a model, component, face, body, or feature has an appearance.
  • Create and access local curve- and sketch-driven patterns.
  • Get type of body folder cut list.
  • Specify more options when mirroring components in an assembly.
  • Add a width mate to an assembly.
  • Specify whether to print a specified layer when printing a drawing document.
  • Get a feature's folder.
  • Move a feature to another location in the FeatureManager design tree of a part or assembly.
  • Specify whether to unlock configurations when moving the freeze bar.
  • Get or set whether to display rebuild indicators on parts that have out-of-date frozen features.
  • Get all of the bodies that result from splitting a part.
  • Modify a split-body feature by changing its split bodies.
  • Specify more options when editing a mate in an assembly.
  • Get or set whether to scale draft edges when printing drawings in high quality.
  • Specify the type of decimal rounding in display dimensions.
  • Support for intersect features.
  • Support for extracting Scanto3D information.
  • Specify whether to keep or delete bodies in a multibody part.
  • Access 3DViews in parts and assemblies.
  • Get the position of a menu item in the SOLIDWORKS menu bar.
  • Divide a sketch segment into equally spaced sketch segments or points.
  • Get the display dimension object for a specified pattern property or a sketch relation.
  • Get the sketch segments that define the path of a structural member body.
  • Specify more properties when creating a weldment gusset.
  • Specify more properties when creating a structural member end cap.
  • Access asymmetric fillets.
  • Specify more properties when creating cosmetic threads.
  • Modify variable-pitch helix features.


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