See SOLIDWORKS API Help: Release Notes for
late-breaking updates.
SOLIDWORKS PDM 2018 API includes the ability to:
- Add a custom tab to PDM vault views:
- Customers and third-party users can add custom tabs to PDM vault views in
Windows Explorer using a PDM API add-in.
- API hooks to third-party development code can display special items in
these custom tabs.
- Add-ins can implement custom tabs with custom names and
icons.
- Add-ins can add any number of custom tabs to the vault
view in Windows Explorer.
- Add-ins can programmatically remove custom tabs.
- Programmatically refresh a data card when its card variables
change.
- Restore deleted files from the Recycle Bin.
- Select the transition to use when changing a file’s state.
- Specify whether to batch update only the variables that are part
of the file data card.
- Get a list of values associated with a drop-down control on a
data card.
- Provide more IEdmSearch comparators.