About This Guide
The Creo Schematics API Guide describes the concepts and details of the Creo Schematics API.
This guide is designed to help programmers learn and use the Application Programmer’s Interface (API) quickly and productively.
To use the API effectively, you should be familiar with:
• Your workstation and the operating system
• Creo Schematics
• Java
Organization of the Book
Each API package is documented in a separate chapter. Each chapter contains an overview of the package, hierarchy of all the classes, and detailed information about the classes, interfaces, exceptions, and errors.
For each class or interface, the following information is documented:
• Description of the class or interface.
• Declarations of the class or interface.
• Hierarchical diagram.
• Direct known subclasses and subinterfaces.
• Details of constructors, methods, and fields. Details include description, declaration, and return values.
• Methods inherited from other classes.
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