Open Solidworks inside VB Form??
Open Solidworks inside VB Form??
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I write programs using Visual Basic and VB.Net that automate external applications such as Solidworks and Excel. Up until now I have been having my programs open instances of these external apps in their own windows. I now want to be able to start an instance of these apps inside of a windows form without having them open in their own windows outside of my program interface. Therefore my question is, Does anyone know of a form control (and) or tool that will facilitate this? Or for that matter, does anybody have any idea how I might be able to accomplish this task? Thanks for your time folks!!






RE: Open Solidworks inside VB Form??
The bad news is just about everything else.
SW crashes if you use configurations
(at least it did when i tried it in in 03) and you dont have much control over the process; the functionality seems to be a bit over just embedding a document. If you have any luck with it, Id be interested to hear.
RE: Open Solidworks inside VB Form??
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RE: Open Solidworks inside VB Form??
Also, look in the SW API help under SldWorks::UserControl and SldWorks::Visible
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