Computer Aided Design Tool Integration

Due to the popularity of Excel/VBA, most engineering tools have developed interface links to Excel. This makes Excel/VBA the ideal tool-integration platform. A large number of tools have also developed VBA Object Libraries which can be more easily controlled by Excel/VBA. A brief sample of such engineering tools that fit into this category include SolidWorks® (CAD), CosmosWorks®, CosmosMotion®, and FloWorks®, Labview (Test Data), Matlab/Simulink, TKSolver and Programming Languages via DLLs such as FORTRAN, C, Ada, and VB.

For a good example of the power of using Excel/VBA for command and control of SolidWorks for CAD modeling, visit our website at www.spreadsheet-cad.com.