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Automation Overview
The API consists of a hierarchy of automation classes, each with its own properties, methods, and events. These classes allow you to:
Open and close PTC Mathcad Prime
Control the appearance of windows
Open, close, recalculate, save, and print worksheets
Retrieve information about regions
Assign and retrieve variables, matrices, or strings
You can create new instances of the following two top-level objects:
The Application class—Co-create an instance of Mathcad.Application
The Worksheet class—Co-create an instance of Mathcad.Worksheet
Other objects can only be manipulated through these objects and their children. For example, you cannot create the Worksheet.Regions collection on its own.