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Customization Setup
Setup consists of two steps:
1. Start a Windchill shell
2. Install & configure Eclipse.
Starting a Windchill Shell
The Windchill shell (included in load point/bin/windchill) establishes an environment suitable for customization. It is invoked as follows:
1. cd load point
2. bin/windchill shell
The Windchill shell adds Ant and Java to the PATH, configures various Ant environment variables, sets the CLASSPATH to that of the MethodServer, and sets Windchill to the load point directory.
Installing and Configuring Eclipse
Eclipse should be installed and configured. Follow the instructions produced by the following command to get started:
ant -f bin/tools.xml eclipse_project.help