What you'll learn
Learn how to login to the vault using the IEdmVault5 interface
Learn how to use the iterator pattern to traverse the vault folder structure
Check files in and out using the LockFile and UnlockFile methods
Read and edit datacard variables using the IEdmEnumeratorVariable5
Requirements
Basic knowledge of VBA
SOLIDWORKS 3D
SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional (Not standard)
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 the most common basic functions of the SOLIDWORKS PDM API. It will cover topics such as logging into the vault, locating files, traversing the folder structure using the iterator pattern, checking files and out of the vault, and reading and editing datacard variables using the IEnumeratorVariable5. All of the code examples are going to be written in VBA and executed in the SOLIDWORKS Visual Basic Editor.The course does NOT cover advanced topics such add-ins, task add-ins, batch objects, and other interfaces of the SOLIDWORKS PDM API. It requires that you have a decent knowledge of VBA and have access to SOLIDWORKS 3D and a SOLIDWORKS PDM professional vault.The knowledge acquired in this course can be utilized to automate basic tasks in SOLIDWORKS PDM API, modify the SOLIDWORKS PDM task advanced scripting section, and even write tools to batch process files in PDM from a VBA macro.
Overview
Section 1: Course Scope
Lecture 1 Course Scope
Section 2: Introduction
Lecture 2 Introduction
Lecture 3 Setting up your programming environment
Section 3: The Vault Object (IEdmVault5)
Lecture 4 Hello Vault program in VBA
Lecture 5 Logging into the Vault using LoginAuto and Login
Section 4: Working with files and folders (IEdmFile5 and IEdmFolder5)
Lecture 6 How to get the IEdmFile5 interface in the SOLIDWORKS PDM API
Lecture 7 Traversing the folder tree structure in a PDM vault with the API
Lecture 8 Checking files in and out of the vault using the API
Section 5: Read and editing datacard variables (IEdmVariableEnumerator5)
Lecture 9 Read and editing data variables with the IEdmEnumeratorVariable5 interface
SOLIDWORKS PDM administrators, SOLIDWORKS designers

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https://www.udemy.com/course/solidworks-pdm-api-for-absolute-absolute-beginners-vba/