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SOLIDWORKS Fundamentals
This chapter includes the following topics:
• Application Programming Interface
• Changes to System Options and Document Properties
• Checking the 3D Printer Size
• Closing a Document When Saving a Copy
• Opening Documents
• Selection Sets
• Slicing Data for 3MF Export
• Specifying the Up Axis for View Orientation
Application Programming Interface
See SOLIDWORKS API Help: Release Notes for late-breaking updates.
SOLIDWORKS ® 2020 API includes the ability to:
• Append a new selection list to a previously suspended selection list.
• Create and edit:
• Mirrored components.
• Fillets and chamfers using new methods.
• Multibody part exploded views.
• Find missing references in fillets and chamfers and reassign them to new edges.
• Get or set:
• More properties in derived part and pattern feature data objects.
• Whether a sketch is editable.
• Whether to convert width polylines to solid fill hatches when importing to part
sketches.
• Slice models into 2D sketch sections.
• Sort a body cut list folder.
• Use 3D Interconnect functionality.
• Use improved mass property reporting.
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