Managing SOLIDWORKS Documents with the API

Examples of using the SOLIDWORKS API to enumerate, close, activate, open, and identify document types.

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SOLIDWORKS documents are represented as IModelDoc2 interfaces in the SOLIDWORKS API.

SOLIDWORKS allows multiple documents to be open and active at the same time. Additionally, documents can contain embedded documents, such as assemblies typically containing other assemblies or parts linked as components, drawings referencing underlying documents to load drawing views, and parts that can be embedded within other parts.

Note that documents can be invisible (e.g., loaded within an assembly) but still loaded into memory and can be traversed and accessed from API methods.

This section contains code examples and macros for managing documents with the SOLIDWORKS API (enumerating, closing, activating, opening, and identifying types).