SolidWorks Visual Basic

This basic to intermediate course covers the use of the SolidWorks programming environment including VBA ("built-in" Visual Basic for Applications) as well as full VB (Visual Basic environment). In addition, this course provides the student with introductory Visual Basic training to help familiarize students with that programming language.

At the completion of the course students will be able to create VBA and/or VB programs for the automation of SolidWorks design functions. Students will be provided with many examples and working programs that can be used immediately in their work.

Outline

Course topics include:

• The VBA work environment
• Controls and properties
• making decisions with VBA
• Looping with VBA
• Modular programming
• Built-in functions
• Data files
• Object basics

Prerequisites

Students attending this course are expected to have the following

• Mechanical/Industrial design experience
• Experience with the Windows operating system
• SolidWorks Essentials