Starting with SolidWorks Customization

I hope it will help SolidWorks users to work with basics of customization.
Customization is need for todays tough market and making best out of slowed economy.

Many freshers in CAD are in tough situation and experinced designers in demand!
So as to have something more then experinced people in CAD, better to learn few tricks with
CAD customization using VBA. We will start with basics of Visual Basic programming language with SolidWorks, and then go to .net part.

Hope you enjoy.

Jump to .NET! for CAD Customization

CAD companies leaving behind VB,VBA,LISP,C++ and going for .net (VB/C#) for customization of CAD softwares. But difficult to find good training material! very few events, webinars on customization available.It's amazing experience to get models using programming language. Many design engineers feel like moving toward's customization when nothing remains new in CAD designing software, Just routine work all the life!All not lucky enough to get company trainings. May be below links help somewhat to get started with customization. AutoCAD, Inventor, SolidWorks, Catia, Pro/E Customization.




http://discussion.autodesk.com/forum.jspa?forumID=152
http://www.solidworks.com/pages/services/CodeExamples.html
http://through-the-interface.typepad.com/http://www.vbcad.com/showabook.asp?BOOKID=5
http://management.cadalyst.com/Harry%27s+Code+Class+Newsletter+%28Archives%29
http://www.ptc.com/products/proengineer/protoolkit-customization-api
http://carlosag.net/Tools/CodeTranslator/Default.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vbasic/default.aspx
http://www.codeproject.com/?cat=6
http://www.adskconsulting.com/adn/cs/api_course_sched.phphttp://www.vbcad.com
http://www.theswamp.orghttp://dwgdotnet.blogspot.com/
http://www.caddigest.com/subjects/autocad/tutorials/programming.htm

Hope CAD companies do get into some webinars on API's training soon. Next post I will start up with basics of AutoCAD Customization.


Regard's

Sachin