xCAD.NET

Designed to simplify development of software for SOLIDWORKS

.NET (C# and VB.NET)

Getting started

Extensions

Add-in skeleton, commands, menus, toolbars, events management, data access.

Property Pages

Building native property pages with data binding.

Custom Feature

Building parametric native features.

Hight level interface abstractions

Use this to develop CAD agnostic applications. All interface names start with *IX*, e.g.

IXApplication,
IXDocument,
IXFace

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Custom implementation of CAD interfaces.

Contain functionality specific to this CAD system.
ISwApplication => IXApplication
ISwDocument => IXDocument
IAiApplication => IAiApplication

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Access to native APIs

All the xCAD wrapper classes provide access to native (underlying) APIs.

ISwApplication.Sw => ISldWorks
ISwDocument.Model => IModelDoc2
ISwEntity.Entity => IEntity

Framework provides utilities for implementation software design principles such as S.O.L.I.D, type safety, single point of maintenance for developing maintainable and scalable solutions for SOLIDWORKS and other CAD systems.

Architecture

xCAD.NET architecture diagram