Open Solidworks within Excel

I was wondering if there was a way to write a VB macro that will tell
Excel to open a part in Solidworks and then be able to change
dimensions within Excel.

 

You can do this using Sw API or Excel here is a code I used to open an
excel document and search a row for a specific number it may help get
you started. What you have to do is in VBA for Excel go up to tools
References and find the Solidworks References. Once you have
referenced these files you can program your VBA macro just as you
would have from Solidworks VBA. It works the other way also. From
Solidworks VBA add the Excel References.
The example below Works out of Solidworks


1) Opens excel
2) Searches the A column for a string
3) pulls the cell next to the first found
4) closes excel (if you use this code make sure you close excel
otherwise
you endup having 20 open instances of excel one for each time it
runs)
5) returns the value of the cell that was pulled

Dim exclApp As Excel.Application
Dim Wkbk As Excel.Workbook
Dim Sheet As Excel.Worksheet
Public Cell As String
Dim actvCell As Range
Dim text As String

sub main ()
msgbox GetMatlDesc ("500253")
end sub

Function GetMatlDesc(srchText As String) as String

If Not Mid(srchText, 6, 1) = "" Then Else Exit Sub
Set exclApp = Excel.Application

exclApp.Workbooks.Open ("C:\MATERIAL LIST FROM FS.xls")'create
this file
'in the "A"
column
'put,
500253 then
'next to it
put,
'It found
this desc.

Set Wkbk = exclApp.ActiveWorkbook
Set Sheet = exclApp.ActiveSheet
On Error GoTo ErrHandler

Cell = Sheet.Range("A:A").Find(srchText).Address(False, False)

Set actvCell = Sheet.Range(Cell)
Set actvCell = actvCell.Offset(0, 1)

Cell = actvCell.text

Wkbk.Close False
exclApp.Quit
Exit Sub
ErrHandler:
Cell = "No Material Specified"

Wkbk.Close False
exclApp.Quit
GetMatlDesc = Cell

End Function