The Pro/DESKTOP Application Programmable Interface (API) provides powerful utilities for developing custom Add-Ins and full scale applications.
In the process of developing these Add-Ins and applications, Pro/DESKTOP customers, resellers and applications developers identified several commonly required operations, e.g.. Create a Workplane, Draw a Rectangle etc. From this emerged a catalog of nearly 150 convenience functions for both VB and C developers.
In addition, we also had internal and external users of Pro/DESKTOP, who were kind enough to agree to make available on the Pro/DESKTOP CD, several VB and C applications, which incorporate the above convenience functions. We have enhanced these applications with comments and links into the respective on-line documentation for the API methods. These examples serve as a good reference on how to use the Pro/DESKTOP API.
Several examples and their VB scripts are also provided to illustrate the power of the API.