Anyone used Macro Magic in SW?

Someone was telling me that Macro Magic is a good way to create
macro's in SW. Has anyone tried this? Is it any better than the built
in recorder and the success of creating macro's without errors?

Thanks

 

MacroMagic and similar tools (I use http://www.americansys.com/ezmacros.htm)
work differently than the "built in recorder".
They don't care about the application (SolidWorks) you're using: they record
your mouse moves, clicks and keyboard strokes, and replay those actions. The
nice thing is they work the same with any application, and let you switch
from one to the other, so I'd recommend them for simple inter-application
macros (PDM, Excel...)

On the other hand, SolidWorks macro recorder creates a SolidWorks-dependent
VBA (Visual Basic for Application) program which has 2 main advantages over
the previous ones :
1) it knows about SolidWorks objects, especially 3D : when you will run a
macro that selects something on the screen, it will work even if you changed
the SW window size (MacroMagic and others will click at the same pixel
position, not on the same edge or face...)
2) with a little programming skills, you can edit the VBA code to build
really useful macros that will work in a wider range of cases.

 

Thanks