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Getting picture of SW prts and assmblies into MS Access database?

Getting picture of SW prts and assmblies into MS Access database?

Getting picture of SW prts and assmblies into MS Access database?

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I need to be able to get pictures of my solidworks models into a an Access database. can anyone help? even just thumbnails would be enough.
Cheers
Tom

RE: Getting picture of SW prts and assmblies into MS Access database?

Hi, tommaxwell88:

Not sure in Access.  But in VB you would use the following object to retrieve previews of part and assembly models.

SW_EXTRACTBITMAPLib.SolidWorks_ExtractBitmap

Good luck!

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