SolidWorks API Series 1: Advanced Product Development

Book excerpt: Second in a series of highly popular books focusing intensively on the SolidWorks API programming toolset. Firstly this book is written with the presumption that the reader has adequate knowledge of SolidWorks API programming (either from experience or from reading my previous book) and so complete beginners may struggle as basic steps are overlooked. This book focuses a lot more on hardcore API programming techniques and methods focused around the add-in and PMP area of SolidWorks. Purely .Net (no VBA this time folks). As well as covering the API, we go ten steps further and move on to something I have personally never found in any programming book on the market, presumably because those who have the knowledge do not wish to share it; actual real-world product development step-by-step - from concept to design and testing, onto licensing, installation, sales, distribution and marketing! After all, is that not where this journey is meant to lead? The topics covered will include SolidWorks Add-ins, in-process coding vs. Standalone, planning and production, the development of a fully-functioning complex event and notification hooked add-in application, creating your very own installer software that installs your add-in and registers it with COM, then creates desktop/start menu shortcuts and much more. You will even be taught on using Photoshop CS4 to create a logo and packaging for your product ready for sale! This book is truly a full product lifecycle journey and beginners right through to industry pro’s will learn a thing or two from at least one chapter.