#solidworks tutorials

Solidworks 2015: Sketching Environment

Solidworks 2015: Angle Bracket

Today we are going to explore and discuss the items in the sketching environment, the part we see on the screen is called angle bracket and when we open the part expand the items in the feature manager design tree and examine the features we have used to create this model that will give you a good idea of what goes into a good 2D sketch we are going to start by…

solidworks 2015:Introduction to sketching environment

Today I am going to introduce you to the sketching environment in solidworks 2015 software. In the first couple of lessons for the introduction to learning solid works 2015 video lessons, we are going to begin by talking about sketching, now most people weather they are using solid works 2015 software or some other 3D parametric modeling software they do not view the sketching aspect of the…

A macro in SOLIDWORKS is one way to improve your design productivity; by reducing the time it takes you to complete simple tasks. When you automate some of your design work this way, it can free you up to focus more of your mouse movements on more complicated design work.

In our previous entry, we’d learned how to create and run a macro. We also learned how important it is not to make any extra clicks, mouse movements, or keystrokes, because we don’t want these recorded to our code. We economize movements so as to avoid inserting junk code into the script that might confuse us later on and require some tedious cleanup.

Now let’s talk about how to edit our macro. First I’ll record a macro to edit. Let’s say a sketch on the front plane, with a simple rectangle, then an extruded boss. One trick you can use to find where your arguments are in the code is to enter values that are easy to search for and locate in the code later on. For my depth of the extrusion, let’s enter an usual value that we can easily find, say 11.11 mm. Click accept.

That’s all I want to record in this macro. I’ll click the Stop button on the macro toolbar. Then the Save As dialog window opens, with the default macro file name in the File Name field. Enter an appropriate and descriptive name, so that it’s easy for you to find this macro later on when you want to run and/or edit it. For Save As Type, the SOLIDWORKS VBA Macros file type is preselected (that’s file extension .swp). Click Save.