pyswtools 0.4.0

Set of tools to improve Solidworks usage

pySwTools

pySwTools is a combination of tools that I made to help me with my workflow when working with Solidworks. Sometimes it is not directly link to SW but more to what I do with the CAD models.

Installation

You can directly install it from pypi:

pip install pySwTools

Or you can install it from this repository:

pip install .

If you are on windows, maybe the directory where the script is installed will not be on the PATH but it can be added to directly be able to use the script from a command prompt.

Contributing

If you found a bug or if you have any idea for the project feel free to open a new issue on github ! And if you want to directly contribute, you are welcome

List of modules

CLI

It is the main module of this project. It allows you to select the actions that you want to apply. To directly get help from the tool simply type:

pyswtools

Config

This command helps you handling your config. By default, the config is the following:

sw_version: 2022 # This is important to set the correct version

If you want to modify the config, you need to first create a file with :

pyswtools config init

And you can reset to the default config with:

pyswtools config init --force

If you want to get the current config:

pyswtools config dump

Or the path to the current config:

pyswtools config dump --path

Ready_DXF

Prepare dxf files from solidworks to be laser cutted:

• Remove the solidworks text from the output dxf file

How to use

You can use the following command:

pyswtools ready-dxf /path/to/file.dxf

It will output a clean.dxf file.

You can also provide the path to a directory with dxf inside

pyswtools ready-dxf /path/to/directory

It will output a directory_cleaned directory with all the cleaned dxf. Do not include the / or \ at the end of the path of the directory

Features to come

• Combine Lines
• Combine Files
• Add auto coloring
• Add tests

Copy_full_assembly

This tool help you when copying multiple file or assembly. It will help you by updating path reference to new path reference:

• In the equation manager

How to use

pyswtools copy-full-assembly PATH_TO_DIR SRC_REPLACE TARGET_REPLACE

• PATH_TO_DIR is the path to directory with all the files to update
• SRC_REPLACE is the string in the current path reference that you want to replace (probably the name of the old directory)
• TARGET_REPLACE is the string in the current path reference that you want to replace (probably the name of the new directory)

Exports_to_STL

• To migrate

Exports_to_dxf

• To migrate