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He wrote a short script in Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), embedding it into the macro editor of SolidWorks. The script was not a full‑blown crack—just a tiny snippet that altered the internal flag that checked whether the current document was a licensed part. When the macro ran, it flipped the flag only for the top section, leaving the rest of the file untouched.