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lococnc1-Visitor
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November 11, 2010
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Worried that I am on the edge of the universe all alone

  • November 11, 2010
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I have been doing a lot of customization of Pro/E lately using J-Link and EFX.

It seems that there are not very many people doing this. I say that
because whenever I have a problem there are very few people that
answer questions on the mailing lists and more worrysome is that PTC
can't fix the problems either.

Anyone out there???

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ptc-6870891-Visitor
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November 15, 2010

Patrick,

Perhaps it is my limited IT educational background - I am a mechanical engineer who does programming.But the only accessibility to MS Office is through VSTO (Visual Studio Tools for Office), which I was planning to study next. If there is another way to do this, I don't know about it, and I don't know where to go to learn about it.

Regards,

Dave Rosenbaum

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ptc-6870891-Visitor
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November 15, 2010

Joe,

As for JExcel, I looked that up, and it is a hook to the .com framework version of Excel. This product, like Excel VBA, is doomed to obsolesence, because it uses the old .com framework. I need access to the Excel object model, and I need to take programming variables (primarily dimensions) calculated in an Excel program, presumably running through Visual Studio, and pass them to the Pro/E object model somehow. I had planned to use the Pro/E Visual Basic API, which was accessible, through the connection mechanism, from Visual Studio. What can I use now, if PTC eliminates this?

As for Apache POI, I don't really know what that is. Can it work through Visual Studio?

Regards,

Dave Rosenbaum

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jkent1-Visitor
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November 15, 2010
Dave,



I feel your frustration. You start heading in one direction and then the
rug gets pulled out from under you. I wish PTC would share some info on
where they are heading with the API. It would be nice to start planning
for the future. With Creo out of the bag they should start giving us
some more detailed information.



Apahce POI is basically a Java API for Microsoft Documents. You can read
more about it here.
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dandersonjr1-Visitor
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November 15, 2010
What are PTC plans for more tightly integrating MathCad into Pro/E Creo?
Not having to create parameters in pro/e just to exchange values would be a
big help,
along with a VBA type programming environment.



Don A

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TylerJ.Nielsen1-Visitor
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November 16, 2010
We are hoping for the same thing.
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