SOLIDWORKS PDM API for absolute absolute beginners (VBA)

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Amen Jlili

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1 - Course Scope

1 - Course Scope.mp4

01:15

2 - Introduction

2 - Introduction.mp4

01:26

3 - Setting up your programming environment.mp4

01:06

3 - The Vault Object IEdmVault5

4 - Hello Vault program in VBA.mp4

05:25

5 - Logging into the Vault using LoginAuto and Login.mp4

03:43

4 - Working with files and folders IEdmFile5 and IEdmFolder5

6 - How to get the IEdmFile5 interface in the SOLIDWORKS PDM API.mp4

05:26

7 - Traversing the folder tree structure in a PDM vault with the API.mp4

03:30

8 - Checking files in and out of the vault using the API.mp4

05:02

5 - Read and editing datacard variables IEdmVariableEnumerator5

9 - Read and editing data variables with the IEdmEnumeratorVariable5 interface.mp4

04:35

Description

Learn the basics of the SOLIDWORKS PDM API.

What You'll Learn?

Learn how to login to the vault using the IEdmVault5 interface
Learn how to use the iterator pattern to traverse the vault folder structure
Check files in and out using the LockFile and UnlockFile methods
Read and edit datacard variables using the IEdmEnumeratorVariable5

Who is this for?

SOLIDWORKS PDM administrators, SOLIDWORKS designers

What You Need to Know?

Basic knowledge of VBA

SOLIDWORKS 3D

SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional (Not standard)

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Description
The SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional Application Programming Interface (API) is a programming interface to SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional, which allows you to automate and customize SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional. The API contains functions that you can call from Visual Basic for Applications (VBA).Â These functions provide direct access to the SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional environment.

This course will teach the most common basic functions of the SOLIDWORKS PDM API. It will cover topics such as logging into the vault, locating files, traversing the folder structure using the iterator pattern, checking files and out of the vault, and reading and editing datacard variables using the IEnumeratorVariable5. All of the code examples are going to be written in VBAÂ and executed in the SOLIDWORKS Visual Basic Editor.

The course does NOT cover advanced topics such add-ins, task add-ins, batch objects, and other interfaces of the SOLIDWORKS PDM API.

It requires that you have a decent knowledge of VBA and have access to SOLIDWORKS 3DÂ and a SOLIDWORKS PDM professional vault.

The knowledge acquired in this course can be utilized to automate basic tasks in SOLIDWORKS PDMÂ API, modify the SOLIDWORKS PDMÂ task advanced scripting section, and even write tools to batch process files in PDMÂ from a VBAÂ macro.
Who this course is for:
SOLIDWORKS PDM administrators, SOLIDWORKS designers

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Amen Jlili has been automating SOLIDWORKS and SOLIDWORKS PDM for over a decade. He has authored several courses and SOLIDWORKS API open-source frameworks. He is currently the Technical Director at Blue Byte Systems Inc., a software company based in Vancouver, Canada specializing in providing expertise in automating SOLIDWORKS and PDM.

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