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How to use pySW - a Python Solidworks VBA API wrapper

 Recently I found a python package called "pySW" to be useful for those who are interested in both Solidworks API programming and python language. If you are familiar with Visual Studio Code and shell command in the terminal, you can easily install and play with it. You may want to visit its author's github repository and try his sample test program. I modified a little to read the lens template and generate the variants. It is almost identical to his box generation sample program. It looks like pySW project has never been updated for last 3 years though. Once the package is installed, you need modify a few lines to make it work. Let me explain one by one.  The web page link PySW 1.4 project in PyPI:  https://pypi.org/project/pySW/ Github repository:  https://github.com/kalyanpi4/pySW Package installation and test program workaround Install pySW Run the following command. You should install other dependent python packages.  pip install pySW ...