These macro’s save a PDF, DXF or AI version of a drawing or STL of a model with the name of the model, in the model folder. Saves tons of time making packages of technical drawings. One-click file-saving! Can be easily changed to save other formats (STEP, IGES, …)
Warning: automatically overwrites existing files!
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Update 1-2-2016: Since I’m still getting a ton of traffic on this post; I recently tested them with SolidWorks 2016 and they work perfectly.
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Does your macro run on win 64bit?
Not sure, but probably, yeah. I’m on 2008, so no 64bit back then (I think). Let me know if it does 🙂
Hi, i have checked stl and pdf on 64-bit system (SWX2014) – it runs good… 😀
nice macro – thanx
Hi,
Thanks for sharing these macros. I’m new to using macros and these are working great for me.
Well I’d like to know that How can I use one of these Macros (say PDF) in Solidworks Task Scheduler to automatically save all the drawing files located in a folder to PDF files in the same folder.
Your help is appreciated.
Many thanks in advance!
Best Regards
Ashish Sharma
Hi Ashish,
Good idea. However, I didn’t even know SW had a task scheduler 😀
I’d guess you could feed this macro into the scheduler, but if I remember correctly it only saves a PDF of the currently opened and active file so you might have some trouble with that.
Best regards, Gregor
Hi,
Thank you for sharing these macros.
I was having trouble with the one I wrote crashing solidworks when I used it.
Makes everything a lot easier
Hey,
thanks for the macros.
-is it possible to make the .stl macro where i can choose the folder where i can save my file?
-the dxf macro is very nice but it only works on drawing file. can you also make it for a sketch file? i need it for sheet-exhaus transaction
nice greetz from germany
Hi Patrick,
1) Do you want to choose a different path every time? If you want them always in the same folder you can edit the macro quite easily. If you want a pop-up to choose a location then I wouldn’t know how to do that 🙂
2) What do you mean with “sketch file”? A blank SW file with only a sketch?