The HRS Blog – SolidWorks and CAMWorks

You might think that engraving a complex shape or logo on a 3D surface would be a difficult and complex feature to create in CAMWorks, but it’s simple. This blog will walk you through doing this in a way found to be very effective regardless of the complexity of the intended form.

There is nothing more frustrating than running into an error message in the process of writing or running a macro and not knowing what the issue is or how to even start fixing it. Hopefully this post will demystify the errors a bit and get you pointed in the right direction to solve the problem.

The Help File for the SolidWorks API (found under Help -> API Help) is a very convenient and useful resource when it comes to working your way through writing a macro. Not only does the Help File provide helpful information about specific components within the API, its organization also provides us with a lot of insight into the SolidWorks Object Model that we’ve been discussing.

In the previous post, we discussed the SolidWorks Object Model and how its hierarchical structure impacts the way you access API functionality. But how do you find what you need within the hundreds of interfaces and functions within the API? Fortunately, you don’t need to know all – or even most – of the API in order to start doing useful things. Here are some commonly used interfaces and functions that will get you up and running: