Manufacturing Process Items
This section gives you more information on the handles that are provided to enable access to process item data.
Steps, Operations and Workcells
An NC sequence is an assembly feature that represents a single tool path. NC sequences listed in the Process Table are called steps.
An operation is a series of NC sequences performed in a particular workcell and using a particular coordinate system for output of Cutter Location data.
A workcell is a machine tool definition and is stored in the assembly.
The object ProMfgprocItem will be used for all functions that operate on steps, operations, and workcells. This item is a derivative of ProModelitem and is defined as
typedef struct pro_model_item
{
ProType type;
int id;
ProMdl owner;
}ProMfgprocItem;
For all three item types, the ProType field should be PRO_NC_PROCESS_ITEM.