SOLIDWORKS PDM API : How To Write C# Add-ins

Blue Byte Systems Inc. offers additional SOLIDWORKS, SOLIDWORKS PDM, and automation courses designed to help engineers, administrators, and developers build practical tools for improving engineering workflows. You can view our available courses at our official website.

Course Description: 

This basic course introduces the SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional API and shows how it can be used to automate and customize SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional.

The SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional Application Programming Interface, or API, provides access to the PDM environment through programming. It allows developers to automate common vault operations, customize user workflows, and build add-ins that extend the functionality of SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional.

This course focuses on the fundamentals of writing a SOLIDWORKS PDM add-in in C#. You will learn how to create a Visual Studio project for PDM add-in development, configure the required references and project properties, implement the `IEdmAddIn5` interface, and work with the main add-in methods, including `GetAddInInfo` and `OnCmd`.

The course also covers how to add the compiled add-in to a vault and how to debug it using the Visual Studio debugger.

This course is intended as a practical beginner guide for writing PDM add-ins. It does not cover every SOLIDWORKS PDM API call in detail. For users who are completely new to the API, we recommend starting with our SOLIDWORKS PDM API for Absolute Beginners course in VBA.

To follow this course, you should have basic knowledge of C#, access to a SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional vault, and Visual Studio installed.

Blue Byte Systems Inc. offers additional SOLIDWORKS, SOLIDWORKS PDM, and automation courses designed to help engineers, administrators, and developers build practical tools for improving engineering workflows. You can view our available courses at our official website.