Overview

Reference Topics > Migrating to the Multibody Environment > Overview

Overview

This section appendix describes how to migrate to the Creo Parametric multibody environment.

PTC introduces multibody part design to improve design productivity, flexibility, and usability.

The existing Creo TOOLKIT application continues to work seamlessly for legacy models and models having a single body. However, you must upgrade to Creo Parametric 7.0.0.0 to use the multibody environment.

To support the multibody environment, Creo Parametric 7.0.0.0 is updated in the following aspects:

• New APIs are added

• Some existing APIs are deprecated and are superseded by new APIs

• Implementation of existing APIs is updated. No visible changes in Creo Toolkit APIs

• New element trees are added to support new multibody features

• Some existing element trees are updated.

• Some enumerated data types and their values are updated

• Existing structures are updated

To enable you to smoothly migrate your existing Creo TOOLKIT applications, the Creo TOOLKIT APIWizard provides the following APIs to support multibody:

Feature Name	API name
Body Operations	• ProSolidBodyCreate() • ProSolidBodyDelete() • ProSolidDefaultBodySet() • ProSolidBodyConstructionSet()
Querying Body	• ProSolidBodiesCollect() • ProSolidBodySurfaceVisit() • ProSolidDefaultBodyGet() • ProSolidBodyStateGet() • ProSolidBodyIsConstruction() • ProSolidBodyOutlineGet() • ProSolidBodyFeaturesGet() • ProGeomitemBodyGet()
Interference	• ProVolumeInterferenceBodiesGet() • ProVolumeInterferenceDisplayForBody()
Material Properties	• ProSolidBodyMaterialSet() • ProSolidBodyMaterialGet() • ProSolidBodyMaterialGet() • ProSolidBodyDensityGet() • ProSolidBodyMassPropertyGet()
Sheetmetal	• ProSolidBodyIsSheetmetal()
Cross-Section	• ProXSectionExcludeCompGet() • ProXSectionItemDataGet() • ProXSectionItemFree() • ProXSectionItemXhatchStyleGet() • ProXSectionItemXhatchStyleSet() • ProXSectionItemsArrFree() • ProXSectionItemsCollect() • ProXSectionOffsetCreate() • ProXSectionPlanarCreate() • ProXsecMdlnameAlloc() • ProXsecMdlnameFree() • ProXsecNewXhatchStyleCreateFromName() • ProXsectionCompXhatchStyleGet() • ProXsectionCompXhatchStyleSet() • ProXsecMdlnameNameGet() • ProXsecMdlnameNameSet() • ProXsecMdlnameSolidOwnerGet() • ProXsecMdlnameSolidOwnerGet() • ProXsecMdlnameSolidOwnerSet()
Shrinkwrap options	• ProShrinkwrapoptionsIgnoreconstrbodiesSet()
UDF	• ProUdfFileIsPreCreo7()

Was this helpful?