Addins with SW2008 64 Bit

The Addin programs I wrote a couple of years ago won't work now that
we've updated to 64 bit Solidworks 2008. Does anyone have any fixes,
suggestions or just general words of encouragement?

 

Your addin is a dll, which is dynamically LINKED to a 64bit
EXEcutable, so it must be 64 bits too...
So "all it takes" is to recompile your addins in 64 bits with a 64
bits compiler (Visual Studio 2005...)
If you wrote your addin in clean C++, it should be straightforward.
If it's in Visual Basic 6, well, you'll have to convert it to .NET...
OR to copy/paste it to a VBA macro, which will run in 32 and 64 bits
thanks to SolidWorks exploit to run the VBA interpreter (which is 32
bits because MS doesn't want to update it to 64...) from within SW 64
bits. Who knows how long this will last ...

Support Python as the next scripting language for SolidWorks ;-)

 

Thank you for your quick response. VB6 is all i have available right
now. I guess I'll need to talk to my boss to see if I can get an
upgrade!

Also, just to make sure I'm understanding fully, with some users still
running on 32 bit, I'll need one version for 32 bit, AND one for 64
bit?

 

Also, just to make sure I'm understanding fully, with some users still

Correct. one 32 bits version AND one 64 bits.
BTW, that's why SW ships special versions of Cosmos and PDMWorks for
64 bits : they are "just" addins ;-)

IMHO, if your app is in VB6, you'd better transform it in a VBA macro,
which is the same language with only a few unsupported things
(essentially menu/toolbar support). So you won't have to ask your boss
for money, won't have to learn VB.NET which is fairly different from
VB6, and you'll have a single version to maintain...