Tutorials - SolidWorks

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OK if you haven’t done so already read the first tutorial on creating a SolidWorks Add-in or if you already know how to then download the code files from the tutorial and open them up. We will start with the add-in from the previous tutorial as the base, so we already have an add-in that loads a Taskpane for us.

So we can get some dynamic control over the menus and toolbars we will add controls to our Taskpane to do all the work.

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Fun with SolidWorks Equation Editor – Part 1

After a friend asked for a bit of help regarding some special custom property requirements, it led down a path that was rather interesting and ended up using the SolidWorks Equation Manager and Custom Properties in ways it really wasn’t meant to be used. And so I thought I would write a quick tutorial on it for those of you that may find it interesting.

The Problems

Firstly, let’s discuss the original problems

1. User wishes to display the current Year as part of a field on a drawing Title block. Sure you can use the last saved date or long date custom properties, but that shows a full date, the user just wants to display the year for copyright purposes.

2. User wishes to automatically pull in the Material name and Grade specifications from the actual SolidWorks Material name. For example the SolidWorks material could be called “STEEL 250” to refer to Steel of grade 250. The user ideally wishes to have 2 custom properties valued “Steel” and “250” respectively to identify material and grade. All materials have the grade as the last part of the name and contain no spaces, so that will be our basis for extraction.

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Ready to take your SolidWorks macro/tool to the next level but don't know where to start? How about creating a fast, efficient .Net Taskpane add-in giving you total flexibility of your program and form designs through the .Net Framework at the same time as being in-process and perfectly integrated into SolidWorks?

After fitting as much as I could into the last 2 SolidWorks books the one thing I was always pining to get into the books was a good run down of creating Taskpane add-ins using .Net, however I did not want to cram it into the last 20 pages of a book; I wanted to cover it in depth. So, with that in mind I have decided to cover Taskpane add-ins over the next few months through our new Tutorials section of our site.