Create E-drawing Silently

[engAlright]

Does anyone know if, through API or otherwise, whether it's possible to create an e-drawing silently from a Solidworks document WITHOUT opening that Solidworks document?

 

[handleman]

Do you mean without opening the document at all or without opening the document in a visible SW window? You can run SW silently/invisibly (set UserControl and Visible to false, if I remember right) using the API and connecting with Excel or other VB/A. I'm sure there are also standalone programs you can purchase to do this.

 

[engAlright]

I was thinking that the file would not have to be opened at all.

For large assemblies, it seems that e-drawings open a subset of the Solidworks data to view in the e-drawings viewer, not the whole model. Essentially what I want to do is take this e-drawings data and put it in to a seperate e-drawings file.

In SW2005 there was an API call to extract e-drawings data, but now that that embed e-drawings data is gone I'm not sure where to look.

 

[Standing]

Look into creating e-drawings using SolidWorks Task Scheduler.

Bradley