Customizing Pro/ENGINEER with Pro/TOOLKIT (2001)

This course covers the use of Pro/TOOLKIT to create applications programs. Students are guided through a set of problems focusing on specific areas of Pro/ TOOLKIT functionality. Class time is a mix of lectures and lab work.

Upon completion, each student should be capable of developing basic customized application programs and have a working knowledge of the topics in this course.

Note: Students will be programming in the C language and are required to bring a C programming manual to use as a reference during lab exercises.

Audience:
This course is intended for Application Developers.

Topics:

• Menus and messages - building customized menus and messages
• Model parameters - read and write access to modifying the model
• Assemblies - creating and modifying assemblies
• Geometry - evaluating geometry for topology data
• Features - programmatic understanding and manipulation of features
• Drawings - programmatic understanding and manipulation of drawings

Required Prerequisites

• The ability to build and modify simple parts and assemblies, create a pattern of features, and define and place UDFs.
  
• The ability to program in "C." with the following knowledge: double pointers and arrays, (for) loops, (while) loops, switch statements, strings and str*() library functions, data structures and using function output arguments by passing addresses of variables.
  
• Knowledge of UNIX (Commands such as cd, cp, rcp, ls, man, mkdir, "vi" editor, C compiler switches, dbx, fgrep, makefiles, and ps).