Recent content by ronin2307

thanks for all the replies. especially stoker. I have managed to make use of that unsupported method found in sdm.dll (extractBitMap2File). But e-drawings might be the way to go in the future. who knows If anybody should need to look at it please let me know

can you show me some code plz. I have found only one example but it uses an unsupported method

what I need is somebody with API knowledge. Therefore I have not explained this issue in great detail. I have a previously written app in VB which does many things, one of which is it's ability to display a preview of an AutoCAD drawing that a user has selected in the custom filediaog box( on...

I don;t know if you are joking or not, but what I would like to do is have an application display the preview of the file when you highlight it in a file list.

solidworks provides this method SldWorks::GetPreviewBitmap however there is a note that it will only works if used in a macro or an add-in and not if I am using an external application. However I need to get a preview from an outside program

Is there any way to get a preview bitmap from an outside executable rather than a macro or an addin?

I have created an addin that I would like to distribute, but I am not sure how. I tried the regsvr32 method on the dll but no success and I also tried opening the dll in SW and that didn't register it properly either. Can anybody shed some light on this? thanx

good call. thanx for that

I may have overlooked something, but I didn't see anything that would help me. Plus all of their links seem to be broken

not really. I have an addin already (created by the wizard) and I can do some simple things. I have tried to implement the following event trap with no success ChangeCustomPropertyNotify

I have found this ChangeCustomPropertyNotify but since I have no extensive previous knowledge of SW and there is no example, I am strugling to make it work do u have any examples for this? thanx

Can you tell me how to access configuration specific properties through the API? I have been trying to do this now to no avail. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Hi, I am trying to find a way (if possible) to trap an event that is triggered when the configuration specific setting for a part has changed. I am using VB.Net but and I am totally new to SW API. Any Help will be appreciated. Thanx

sorry, I haven't ever had to write to the BOM so I really do not have any idea how to do it.

here is most of the code. A bit messy but it does the job If there are questions please ask and I'll be happy to explain. We have a few different templates and therefore I have to check the column headers accordingly so I know what to do with the data and in which column I can expect what. Bunch...