Practical guides, free VBA macros and product news from the Blue Byte engineering team.
PDMPublisher for SOLIDWORKS and PDMPublisher for SOLIDWORKS PDM side by side: where each runs, what it publishes, how it is licensed and which one fits your team.
Duplicate file names cause wrong references and failed check-ins. Find every duplicate in your SOLIDWORKS PDM vault with one PDMShell search.
Buy PDMShell, PDMPublisher or Folder Columns Manager and add 3 ConisioDark licenses for SOLIDWORKS PDM Explorer, free for the first year.
A practical guide to the SOLIDWORKS PDM BOM: computed, named, SOLIDWORKS and weldment BOMs, flat view BOM, layouts, and exporting without pain.
PDMShell seats can be activated on one computer or pooled in a SOLIDWORKS PDM vault for workflow automation. Here is how each option works, how to set it up, and which one to choose.
Seeing “Error loading add-ins. Message from database: Class not registered” after installing or upgrading the SOLIDWORKS PDM client? Re-register two components in five minutes, with a ready-made repair script.
Generate a contents page with names, quantities and custom properties for your merged SOLIDWORKS drawing PDFs, plus clickable bookmarks.
Where the SOLIDWORKS API documentation, PDM API help and Document Manager help live, how to read an interface page, and a fast lookup workflow.
Dispatch is free and fine for simple actions. Here is when PDMShell’s command line, scripts, triggers and PDM tasks are the better fit.
Run PDMShell AI on your own computer with Ollama: install Ollama and Node.js, choose a model and connect it to PDMShell.
PDMShell AI writes PDMShell scripts for SOLIDWORKS PDM from plain English, using ChatGPT, Claude or Ollama. Watch the demo.
Blue Byte Systems is sponsoring the next SOLIDWORKS APIs User Group session on November 17, 2026. Marc Young and Ilan Madjar of xLM Solutions show how to query, create and update SOLIDWORKS PDM data with the Web Services API, Postman and Visual Studio. Free to attend, with a CSWA-PDM voucher giveaway.
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