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SOLIDWORKS Video Tutorials Supplements - How to Record a Macro, Missing 2

Abide by ascending against our series apropos of articles about SOLIDWORKS training for beginners, and in this article we'll continue our discussion of VBA. In this article, I'll describe how to lead the way your first macro. <\p>

First in re all, powerfully click anywhere on the ribbon, and pipe roll down to Macro. Select it with a left click. This brings up the Macro toolbar. There's a cursory familiar buttons here that you'll recognize from every cassette or DVD player you've forevermore seen. The green triangle pointing until the goodness move play. The gray square means stop. The big unbaked button means record. Just right, right away, you can already tell, SOLIDWORKS is percentage us get into the frame of mind for recording, by using these familiar symbols. <\p>

What flush are we rolls? It's not a video, or audio. It's our movements, our clicks of commands on the screen. SOLIDWORKS Training is going in transit to scroll the actions we chase, the commands we enable and disable, and their parameters and settings that we refer to. Probable on, we'll be able to be aware of the programming principium showing how all these actions are really notated behind the lovely and sweet telling user interface. Now this reason, once ego for real press the €record€ button, you need to be conscionable about your movements and clicks, extremely that subconscious self don't conjoin any side junk to the mix€"that is, so that me don't write out all and sundry unnecessary gift of tongues toward the macro. Solo carry out what is necessary when you're entry, and practice your movements a couple times first to get it right, if you're new to creating macros for your software.<\p>

The next button on the Macro Toolbar is New Macro. This launches the macro editor and begins editing a new macro. And the tooltip tells us on time this, in passage to help us along. The farthest button in transit to the Macro Toolbar is Censor Macro. Pitter-patter here to open a macro file in behalf of editing; you hamper make choice of which no other to open after you bump Edit Macro. <\p>

He can go ahead and press the record button. Again, a annotation to economize and stand prudent about your movements once you are actually recording, so that you don't add any junk code to your macro. Let's create a simple macro on behalf of an egestion that will serve as a base plate. <\p>

Exordial, right click on the Pick Plane streamlined the Mien Manager design tree. Then click Sketch. This launches a new sketch. Accelerate the swerve rectangle tool, and place a rectangle ingoing the graphic area. If you same, ethical self bum passing one deviation to the Origin point. I'm not going to dimension it as of now, but you can if superego devotion, in contemplation of fully define it prior to extrusion. I'll ipsissimis verbis click Accept in the auricular confession corner (that's the cullible checkmark) to continue.<\p>

Modernistic I'm taken to the Features tab, where I'll father an extrusion. I'll pick up from as things are good terms my successive SOLIDWORKS training division.<\p>

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Welcome back to our series of articles about SOLIDWORKS training for beginners, and in this article we’ll continue our discussion of VBA. In this article, I’ll describe how to create your first macro.

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Tips & Tricks for Getting Around SOLIDWORKS for Beginners

Hi there; welcome back to our SOLIDWORKS tutorials for beginner’s series, and in this entry I'll be publishing some information that works as a useful supplement to our SOLIDWORKS video tutorials.

We're picking up where we left off in our discussion of View Manipulation tools and tricks in SOLIDWORKS. We'd just discussed all the tools on the Hang-Up toolbar, which is a toolbar that is docked at the top center of the graphic area, right under the command manager.

If you don't see the Hang up Toolbar at the top of your graphic area (it appears top-center in the graphic area, right underneath the ribbon and right beside the environment tabs), you can make it visible via the Customize dialog window. You get to this by clicking the arrow next to Options on the Quick Access toolbar at the very top of your screen. It's near the right margin. The Customize Command Manager dialog window opens; you need to click on the Commands tab. Then, click on the View category (it's the branch on the left-hand side of the window), and drag in any tools from the right-hand side of the window. You can put any tools you want on to the hang-up tool bar. This is a really convenient way to keep the view manipulation tools you use most frequently.

Stay tuned for my next entry in this SOLIDWORKS tutorial for beginners series containing documentation to supplement our SOLIDWORKS video tutorials

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What's different between a graphics program like PhotoShop and a 3D Modeling program like SolidWorks?

Great question. A lot is different. How you draw in Solidworks is different than in a graphics program, like Photoshop, or Illustrator, and your SolidWorks video tutorials will cover how this works. In SolidWorks, you don’t need to position your geometry while you’re actually drawing it. First you drop your geometry onto your workspace—a line, some circles, a spline, what have you. Then you organize it mathematically using what are called relations. That is, you apply relationships. (In AutoDesk Inventor, relations are called constraints). Let’s say you need the center of your circle to be the starting point for your line. To make that happen, you apply what’s called a coincident relation between those two points. And you need another line to be parallel to that first line. Instead of trying to draw a line that seems parallel, you just activate the parallel relation command, and then select both entities. You have just applied a parallel relation.

But it looks straight, right? While you might think it’s easy to draw a horizontal line, or a vertical line—“it looks straight, right?”—that’s actually not precise enough for 3D modeling. If you want a line to be vertical, that is, parallel to the Y axis, you need to apply a vertical relation. If you want a line to be horizontal—parallel to the X axis—you need to apply a horizontal relation.

Relations first then dimensions…

Generally you’ll apply relations first, and then the dimensions. The relations organize the geometry in appropriate locations, and the dimensions determine the size of the geometry. For example, you define a line or radius length; the area of a rectangle, the distance between two points, etc.

This is the essence of parametric modeling!! What’s seriously cool about using relations to position your geometry is that you can change the size later on without having to reposition or re-dimension the geometric entities later on. Let’s say your line’s starting point is coincident with your circle’s center point. If you change the size of the circle, the line’s starting point will move accordingly, to maintain that coincident relation. This is the essence of parametric modeling; this functionality is what makes it a heck of a lot easier to do 3d modeling with parametric computer software than on paper or with a 2d CAD program. I recommend you watch some SolidWorks video tutorials, as it's a lot easier to see this in action than to read about it. (A 2D CAD program works like an infinite piece of paper—although many 2D programs are offering some 3D and parametric capability to remain competitive.) Basically, with parametric modeling—when you create parameters like relations and dimensions to determine how to position your geometry--it’s WAY easier to edit later on!!