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October 18, 2022

Export SLDPRT and SLDASM to HTML with PDM Convert Task Extended

Version 8 of the PDM Convert Task Extended comes with support for exporting SOLIDWORKS parts and assemblies to HTML. The only requirement is that the user has eDrawings Professional 2019 or newer installed on their machine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1KzrfXxTxk

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August 22, 2022

PDM2Excel V7: New support for structural members in Bill Of Materials exports

In version 7 of PDM2Excel, we have added support for the following features: Ability to process PDM Bill of Materials that contains structural members.Structural members' thumbnails will be a generic weldment icon.Fixed a few small bugs. Shop now

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July 27, 2022

Dark/Light theme: Sync your Windows 10 default app mode with SOLIDWORKS 3D

SOLIDWORKS 3D offers users a dark and a light theme. There is a setting in Windows 10 that automatically turn on or off theme selection in third-party applications. SOLIDWORKS does not use that feature so it's about time we wrote an article to show how a custom add-in can automatically…

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July 12, 2022

Have ever you used the SldWorks.exe arguments?

Sldworks.exe is the executable file that launches SOLIDWORKS 3D. This process can be launched with arguments that trigger certain modes…

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July 4, 2022

A PDM race condition: How your code might wrestle with PDM when saving files directly to the vault — and what to do about it.

A race condition may occur when two instructions are executed at the same time. The output gets determined by which…

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April 21, 2022

Blue Byte Systems Inc joines the Autodesk® Developer’s Network.

Blue Byte Systems, Inc. has been accepted into the Autodesk® Developer’s Network. We're happy to announce our acceptance into the…

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April 16, 2022

Export SOLIDWORKS PDM BOMs to xlsx with thumbnails – PDM2Excel

With version 6 of PDM2Excel, a new export function has been added to allow you to export your PDM BOM…

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March 30, 2022

Auto-update SOLIDWORKS PDM add-ins

The auto-updater add-in is a tool developed by Blue Byte Systems, Inc. to streamline our code delivery process for our…

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March 27, 2022

Top 5 reasons to start using PDM2Excel to start exporting PDM BOMs to Excel.

You use SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional to manage your product's cad data. You and your team have a solid vault implementation…

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January 23, 2022

New for 2022! SOLIDWORKS PDM API Things You Can Do…They’re pretty cool.

The 2022 release of the SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional API didn't bring major changes to the API itself with the exception of the PDM Web API docs. These changes however are very useful. Let's go over them in detail: 1. You can rename BOM Views You can rename BOM views with PDM…

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