BORLANDS DELPHI & SOLIDWORKS

Our inhouse programmer told me to ask this question. Can you use delphi to
write programs for solidworks? Can you access all the apis or are you stuck
with visual basic? If I start with a recorded macro would he be able to
modify

I think the application we have is better suited to acad & autolisp any way.
Picture the armature plates of an electric motor, the inside 'hub' of the
plate remains the same but the outer perimeter which consists of 100 or so
slots must rotate a fraction of a degree over 420 unique parts. All we need
is a 2D DXF file of each part to load into the CAM software for programming
the laser.

Just fishing for ideas, any help appreciated.

 

I am considering switching over to .net. What kinds of problems did you run
into?

Thanks,

Ed

 

Ed, apparently Mike's problem is that C# is not C++. It's about the same
over here. C# is in many ways a better C++ than C++. You can get twice as
much done in half the time, and then give it all back with interest later
futzing with .NET and COM details that are not at all problems in C++. Both
are good. However, I don't understand how Delphi can be considered in the
same running.