Creo Elements/Direct Modeling 20.4 Integration Kit

• Welcome
• Reference Manual

Concepts and Tutorials

• Introduction
  • Overview
  • Prerequisites for using the Creo Elements/Direct Modeling Integration Kit
  • Installation/Setup
  • Overview of System Architecture
• Creating a User Defined Command
  • Introduction to User Defined Commands
  • Using the Dialog Generator
  • Calling Creo Elements/Direct Modeling Commands
  • Creo Elements/Direct Modeling Lisp Functions
  • Common Lisp Functions
  • Getting Started
• Creating/Customizing Creo Elements/Direct Modeling's User Interface
  • Introduction
  • Fluent UI
  • Application Buttons
  • Building Tables
  • Creating Graphical Browsers
  • Building User Interfaces with the UI Construction Toolkit
  • Application support for User Customization
  • Customization Guide for Administrators and Advanced Users
• Inquiring Data in Creo Elements/Direct Modeling
  • Introduction
  • Data Types
  • Objects
  • Selection
  • Workplane
  • Geometrical
  • Features and Named Elements
  • Viewport
  • Layout
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Configuration
  • Pattern
• Design Information Features
  • Introduction to Design Information features
  • Design Information Feature Definition
  • Design Information Feature Components
  • Feature Construction
  • Feature Labels
  • Selecting Features
  • Organization of Features
  • Design Information Feature Reports
  • Defining Design Information Features
• Miscellaneous Features
  • Events
  • Attributes
  • Feedback Elements
• Best Practices
  • Introduction
  • Avoiding Lisp Garbage Collection
  • Debugging a User Defined Command
  • The Undo System in a User Defined Command
  • Check for Active Licenses in a User Defined Command
  • Creating Your Own Lisp Package
• Advanced Topics
  • Introduction
  • Compiling
  • Licensing your code
  • Unicode and string processing
• Annotation Module
  • General Overview and Information
  • Writing Dialogs
  • Selecting Annotator Objects
  • Not to Break Associativity
  • Software and Hardware Exceptions in Annotation
  • How to execute a Drafting command using Creo Elements/Direct Modeling LISP Functions
  • How to return a valid LISP form from Drafting to Creo Elements/Direct Modeling
  • Example: "How to inquire the current Annotator part"
  • Limitations
• Model Manager Module
  • Defining Database Exchanged Attributes (for Administrators)
  • Commands For Assigning Database Exchanged Attributes
  • Defining Database Attribute Personalities (for Administrators)
  • The Database Attribute Browser
• Windchill Workgroup Manager Module
  • Defining Text References to be date attributes and specifying a display format

Reference Manual

• Dialog Generator
  • 3D CoPilot
  • File Manager
• Calling an Action Routine from within a User Command
• Custom Features
• User Interface
  • Fluent UI Ribbon Bar
  • Fluent UI Status Bar
  • Application Button
  • Logical and Display Tables
  • UI Construction Toolkit
    • Concepts
    • Name Conventions
    • Common UI Control Properties
    • Creation of UI Controls
    • Generic UI Control Utility Functions
    • Specific UI Control Utility Functions
    • Other UI related Utility Functions
  • UI Utility Functions
  • Graphical Browsers
    • Browser Management
    • Browser Views
    • Browser Queries
  • UI Customization Support
  • Customization Guide for Administrators and Advanced Users
• Inquiries
  • Object Inquiries
  • Geometric Inquiries
  • Topological Inquiries
  • Part Inquiries
  • Workplane Inquiries
  • Coordinate System Inquiries
  • Features and Named Elements
  • Viewport Inquiries
  • Layout Inquiries
  • Relation Inquiries
  • Configuration Inquiries
  • Pattern Inquiries
  • Miscellaneous Inquiries
• User-Defined Attributes
• Miscellaneous
  • Filing and Operating System
  • DDE Interface
  • Managing Model State
  • String Handling
  • XML Interface
  • Events
  • Feedback
  • Feedback Elements
  • Arithmetical and Vector Utilities
  • Miscellaneous Utilities
  • Secure Parts for Section Views
  • Standard/Library Parts
  • Inseparable Assemblies
  • Thread Extensions
  • Debugging a User Defined Command
  • Persistent Data Storage
  • Default Settings
• Advanced Topics
  • LISP Compilation
  • Licensing
• 3D Documentation Module
  • Annotation Inquiries
  • Docuplane Inquiries
  • Group Inquiries
  • Index Inquiries
  • Events
  • User defined symbols
  • Customizable Subactions
• Annotation Module
  • Annotator Interface
  • Symbol Customization
  • Info Attributes
  • 2D Object Inquiries
  • Dimension Inquiries
  • Text Inquiries
  • Geometry Inquiries
  • Auxiliary Geometry Inquiries
  • Hatch Inquiries
  • Picture Inquiries
  • Viewport Inquiries
  • Object Creation
  • Miscellaneous Inquiries and Events
• Model Manager Module
  • Database Attributes
  • Database Direct Functions
  • Database Attribute Functions
• Windchill Workgroup Manager Module
  • Windchill Workgroup Manager Direct Functions
  • Windchill Workgroup Manager Attribute Functions
  • Windchill Workgroup Manager Annotation Functions
• Mold Design Module
  • Mold Design Inquiries
• Inspection Module
  • Inspection Queries

Examples

• Auto Loft
• Color Parts
• Cycle Part Color
• Explode
• Extrude with Draft
• Fast Window
• Features
• Feedback Elements
• Fluent UI
• Thread Extensions Usage
• User Attributes
• XML Interface
• Link to FE
• My Extrude
• Piping User Action
• Slot User Action
• Licensed Slot User Action
• Table Example
• Design Information Examples
• Capture Animation
• Trace Point

Appendix

1. What's New
   • Integration Kit What's New
   • Customization and User Interface News
   • Command Syntax Changes and Enhancements
2. Known Problems and Restrictions
3. Function Index (alphabetically ordered)
   
   • Main Index
   • Annotation Module
4. Contributed Functionality and Utilities
   • Debugging
5. The ME Macro Programmer's Introduction to Lisp