Solidworks Pdm Api : How To Write C# Add-Ins

Learn how to write a SOLIDWORKS PDM Add-in in C#.

What you'll learn

How to Create a Visual Studio Class Library Project

How to Configure Add-in VS Project Properties and References

How to implement the IEdmAddIn5's GetAddInfo Method

How to implement the IEdmAddIn5's OnCmd Method

How to Manually Test a DataCard Add-in Button

How to Attach Debug a SOLIDWORKS PDM Add-in

Requirements

C#

SOLIDWORKS PDM

Object Oriented Programming

Visual Studio

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). These functions provide direct access to the SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional environment.This course will teach you how to write a SOLIDWORKS PDM Add-in in C#. It will teach you how to create a visual studio project fit for developing PDM add-ins, how to set the references and the properties of the project correctly. It will teach how to implement the IEmAddIn5 interface in detail (GetAddInInfo and OnCmd methods), how to add the add-in into the vault and how to debug the add-in using the Visual Studio debugger.This course should be used as a guide on how to write add-ins. It does not provide details on most API calls as that is not the focus of the course. To get acquainted with a more basic course, please see our SOLIDWORKS PDM API for absolute beginners course in VBA.It requires that you have a decent knowledge of C# and have access to a SOLIDWORKS PDM professional vault and Visual Studio.The knowledge acquired on this course can be utilized to automate your SOLIDWORKS PDM vault by developing PDM add-ins.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 Requirements

Section 2: Create Visual Studio Project Files

Lecture 3 Creating the Visual Studio Class Library Project

Section 3: Implementing the IEdmAddIn5 Interface

Lecture 4 Implementing the IEdmAddIn::GetAddInInfo Method

Lecture 5 Implementing the IEdmAddIn::OnCmd Method

Section 4: Testing the PDM Add-In

Lecture 6 How to Add a PDM Add-in to the Vault

Lecture 7 How to Debug a PDM Add-in In Visual Studio

Section 5: Closing Remarks

Lecture 8 Closing Remarks

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