I have a PDM add-in that does extensive renaming and moving of files in the PDM vault. The add-in can be triggered from inside SOLIDWORKS or from Explorer. To do rename, I’m following these steps. Check out the file Using Rename Method (IEdmFile5) Check in back to vault With explorer, everythin…

If the file is being used by SOLIDWORKS, you may need to remove the system locks on it by calling UnLock Method (IModelDoc2) - 2022 - SOLIDWORKS API Help , renaming your file, relocking it.

How to reaname the file in both Solidworks and PDM vault?

SOLIDWORKS API/VBA Macros

BigCrazyAl February 15, 2022, 1:23pm 2

I believe you should be using IEdmFile6 RenameEx instead of the outdated Rename. You shouldn’t need to check out the files to perform the rename either. See the following thread for more information on why.