Solidworks and labView

[amnazafar021@gmail.com]

Hi,

Hope you are doing well.

I have a LabView 2013, is it possible to integrate solid works with LabView 2013. 

If it is possible please share the process.

Thanks

[LVIEWPQ]

What sort of integration of solidworks are you looking for? 

What do you want your labview code to do to solidworks? 

[amnazafar021@gmail.com]

i made an assembly in solid works and i perform different test on that assembly and the result shown in the form of a graph on labview

[Quiztus2]

So you are already using SolidWorks API?
The control of Solidworks assemblies via textfile/Excel is very limited. 

I think it is theoretically possible, but depends heavily on your knowledge and programming skills. But since Solidworks API support .Net it shouldn't be too dreadful.

Nevertheless it is a very interesting question for me so please share some more insights about what you are planning to do.

[rolfk]

NI and Solidworks had in a long ago past a short affair together, where they were actively making joint marketing announcements about working together to integrate both products more tightly. However that affair cooled down after a while and they never looked back since then.

The technology they showed in those days was mostly based on the .Net API that Solidworks provides. It was promising, a bit rough at the edges and at the same time I was kind of wondering where the benefit of that would be, but I'm not a mechanical engineer. 😀

I never really heard much about Solidworks since.

[JimB.]

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amnazafar021@gmail.com wrote:

i made an assembly in solid works and i perform different test on that assembly and the result shown in the form of a graph on labview

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Do you want to trigger the "test" from LabVIEW, or just visualize data?

To control Solidworks with LabVIEW you will need to learn to use the Solidworks API.

If you just need to visualize data is there some file that Solidworks outputs that you would like to attempt to read?

Neither is anything that I can provide you a detailed procedure to do, but if you make an attempt to do this then it may be more productive to provide forum users with details on what you've tried and where you are getting stuck.