#SEU12 Solid Edge Light-Weight APIs Madison Miner Software Engineer EDA, Inc.

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Solid Edge Light-Weight APIs

Madison Miner Software Engineer

EDA, Inc.

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Presenter background

• EDA has been an automation consultant for over 21 years.

• Madison has been a software engineer @ EDA for 9 years.

• EDA has experience automating Solid Edge, SolidWorks, AutoCAD, Google SketchUp, MS Office and more.

• EDA has automated quoting, drafting, design, engineering and manufacturing.




Presentation Outline:

• What are the benefit of light-weight APIs?

• Revision Maker – Overview and code samples • Show all file properties, linked files

• File Properties – Overview and code samples • Show all file properties

• SE Readers – Overview and code samples • Show all linked files



Reasons to use light-weight APIs

No Solid Edge required!

• Light-weight APIs may be used on computers that do not have Solid Edge installed.

Faster execution with less resources required.

• Light-weight APIs load much faster and use much less computer resources that Solid Edge.

Problem Solving

• Sometimes you have to use the light-weight APIs to track down problems.



Revision Manager API

• The RevisionManager type library is used to automate the Revision Manager application.

• Common uses include moving, renaming and replacing files.

• For example, EDA’s Revision Maker:• Allows users to move assemblies and all their

linked parts from one folder to another without worrying about broken links or missing parts in the new location.www.edainc.net/RevisionMaker.aspx

• The following sample console application will move an assembly and all linked documents to a new folder.

http://www.edainc.net/RevisionMaker.aspx



RevisionManager Sample Program MoveDocuments

You will need to add a reference to the Solid Edge Revision Manager Object Library to access the API.




At the start of the file you will find a program summary.




Collect and validate the parameters passed to the program:




Open the file with Revision Manager, call recursive move function, clean up.




Recursive MoveDocAndAllLinkedFiles routine, part 1




Recursive MoveDocAndAllLinkedFiles routine, part 2




Sample program usage:



FileProperties API

• The FileProperties type library is used to view, edit and add properties to Solid Edge documents.

• The following sample console application will enumerate all the properties of a Solid Edge document.

• This sample program uses some of the code from the File Properties sample API program in the Solid Edge .NET Programmers Guide

http://www.plm.automation.siemens.com/zh_tw/Images/Solid_Edge_API_tcm943-125829.pdf

http://www.plm.automation.siemens.com/zh_tw/Images/Solid_Edge_API_tcm943-125829.pdf



FileProperties_EnumerateAllProperties

Get, validate and open the file we are working with:




Loop through each property in each property set:




Sample program output:




How to access a specific PropertySet or Property:



SEReaders – DraftDataAPI, SEFacet, SEReader

• The SEReaders are used to view the properties of Solid Edge Documents• Assemblies – SEReader.dll• Drafts – DraftDataAPI.dll• Parts – SEFacet.dll

• Does not require Solid Edge to be installed to use• Must register the .dlls using regsvr32 before using.• Cannot be used to modify files, SEReaders APIs are read-only.

• Sample programs:• SEReader_EnumerateLinkedComponents• SEFacet_Enumerator



All SE Readers require you to register dll and add a reference.

Find the DLL you want to use in :

<ProgramFolder>\Solid Edge ST4\SDK\Readers

Register it and then add as a reference.



SEReader_EnumerateLinkedComponents

Thanks to Greg Chasteen for providing this sample program.

• Windows Form program

• Allows users to select an assembly

• Enumerates all properties available through SEReader

• Outputs FileName and OccName to a ListBox

• Program was developed to find broken links










Available Properties

• Matrix• 3D Transformation Matrix

• Range• Extents (or Range) of the object

• Quantity• Returns the number of occurrences of the referenced object

• OccurrenceName• The file name followed by “:occurrence number”

• objAttachment.OccurrenceName "CLAMP-JIC-ASSY.asm:8"




Available Properties

• OccurrenceProps - Enum

• OccurrenceExtendedProps- Enum



SEFacet.dll

• The SEFacet.dll provides information about the Bodies, Faces and Strips in a part.

• This API could be used to create:• A 3D part viewer• A program that can compare files• Other Ideas?



SEFacet_Enumerator

Some of this code can be found in the SEFacet documentation:

<Programs Directory>\Solid Edge ST4\SDK\Readers\SEFacet.doc

• Command line program

• Allows users to pass a Solid Edge Part as an argument

• Lists all Face information in the part, including Style info



SEFacet_Enumerator



SEFacet_Enumerator

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