Automate SOLIDWORKS Pack and Go with API Macros — Run, Rename, and Open the New Drawing
Pack and Go through the UI is fine for a one-off operation. When you’re doing it repeatedly — versioning a drawing before a revision cycle, archiving a job package, moving a drawing to a different project folder with all its references intact — you want a macro that runs Pack and Go, tells you where the new file landed, closes the original, and opens the copy. The SOLIDWORKS API supports all of this via the IPackAndGo interface, but the documentation examples stop at SavePackAndGo and leave the “then open the copy” part as an exercise for the reader. ...