Application Programming Interface

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

SOLIDWORKS® 2020 API includes the ability to:
  • Append a new selection list to a previously suspended selection list.
  • Create and edit:
    • Mirrored components.
    • Fillets and chamfers using new methods.
    • Multibody part exploded views.
  • Find missing references in fillets and chamfers and reassign them to new edges.
  • Get or set:
    • More properties in derived part and pattern feature data objects.
    • Whether a sketch is editable.
    • Whether to convert width polylines to solid fill hatches when importing to part sketches.
  • Slice models into 2D sketch sections.
  • Sort a body cut list folder.
  • Use 3D Interconnect functionality.
  • Use improved mass property reporting.