Next Meeting

Date:	02-23-2010
Time:	06:30 PM - 09:00 PM
Length:	2 Hours 30 Minutes
Location:	Automatic Systems, Inc.
Address:	Map of 9230 E. 47th St. Kansas City, MO 64133
Agenda:	Agenda: “API for VB.NET” Richard Pitts, Engineering Manager, Great Western Manufacturing Company Inc. Microsoft has announced VBA will eventually cease functioning, and VB.NET is its replacement. This changes how API macros are handled. This session discusses how these changes affect your API macros. If you have never written an API macro, then this session will help you get started. You will learn how to connect VB.NET to SolidWorks, and begin making macros. If you have written API macros in VBA, this session will help show you how to convert your macros from VBA to VB.NET, and some of the issues which must be dealt with manually from the conversion. If you attended our last session on API, this session will utilize traversing, SolidWorks Style, a different SolidWorks technique than was used last session. If you already write SolidWorks macros in VB.NET, this session will cover some of the unique error handling techniques (time permitting.) Session topics: * Connecting VB.NET and SolidWorks * Converting existing VBA files to VB.NET * Traversing faces (in our example we will highlight the main face of a flattened sheet metal part) * Error Checking (We will go over a VB.NET error handling technique, Try -> Catch) API macros are an extremely powerful tool to improve your performance, while working with repetitive tasks. Come and learn how API can improve your SolidWorks experience.
	RSVP for the February 23 meeting