So, I need a little help. I need to write a program which will accept input of a design (shape, size, position, and orientation of each component) and perform calculations on that. Also, to make sure that the user did everything correctly, it has to output something that solidworks can use to draw the resulting object. The legacy program is a lisp program that outputs to AutoCAD, the feature in AutoCAD that allowed this has since been killed, so we have switched to SolidWorks.

My intuition is to have the program output a VB macro for SolidWorks to run. However, I don't have any good resources to learn how to do this. I have looked at several maccros, but they don't make sense to me. Any tips to finding resources to learn would be useful, but if you can think of an easier or better way to do this, please speak up as well.

Thank you,

Robert