3dexperience

A question on the SOLIDWORKS 3DEXPERIENCE forum asked whether there is an API method to trigger the Update for 3DEXPERIENCE Compatibility command programmatically. The team needed to process several thousand legacy part files before uploading to a 3DEXPERIENCE tenant — running the command manually was not an option. The short answer: no such API method exists. The compatibility update command is a UI-level operation with no public IFeatureManager, IModelDocExtension, or ISldWorks equivalent. IModelDocExtension::UpgradeLegacyCustomProperties sounds like it might cover this, but it does something narrower and unrelated to the 3DX compatibility update. ...

Dassault Systèmes announced over a dozen AI features for SolidWorks at 3DEXPERIENCE World 2026. The marketing materials show engineers describing geometry in plain English, generating drawings on demand, and having AI explain why a feature failed. Most of that is real — but the gap between what runs on your desktop today and what requires a 3DEXPERIENCE subscription is larger than the announcements suggest. This is a precise breakdown: which features ship, which platform they require, what they can and cannot do, and where API macros still outperform them. ...