AutomationGATEWAY

AutomationGATEWAY allows Pro/ENGINEER to directly integrate with other applications, such as with the Microsoft Office suite (Word, Excel, Access, Internet Explorer, and Visual Basic SQL server), so that you can customize your Pro/ENGINEER environment to your own needs.

The product is based on Microsoft's ActiveX technology, and therefore can interface with any application that supports ActiveX. AutomationGATEWAY allows a developer to use several programming languages, such as Visual Basic, VBA, C, any .NET language (C#, Visual Basic.NET), and others.

No other method will give you the ease of use and the flexibility of AutomationGATEWAY to automate your design process and the creation of deliverables.

Product highlights

• Ease of use: No need to learn Pro/TOOLKIT or C (programming language)
• Flexibility: Use multiple development languages, such as Visual Basic, Visual Basic.NET and C#
• AutomationGATEWAY can drive over 175 Pro/ENGINEER functions with the use of an external application
• Visual Basic is a standard in the industry today. You don't need to be a C programmer to make it work or have to worry about the cost of recruiting and staffing a C programmer
• Provides the ability to quickly automate portions of the design process
• Low-cost entry point to automation: Start with one seat and add seats as required
• Great tool to migrate to after Pro/PROGRAM capabilities have been exhausted
• Customer-driven enhancements: Very responsive to customer requirements

Product features

File management Retrieve, Rename, Copy Generation of deliverables such as IGES, STEP, DXF, plot files, etc. Access to Pro/INTRALINK (workspace and checkout) Dimensions and parameters Create or modify dimensions and parameters Prompt for parameters values Read values from a file Create model relations User interface customization Menu customization (top only) Dialog box customization Interactive selection

Core modeling (access to geometry) Suppress, resume, interchange features and components Geometry traversal Family table creation or modification Placement of UDFs Delete features Feature creation or redefinition Ability to manipulate assemblies Model appearance Layer operations Simplified rep operations (retrieve and activate)

Examples of applications

• Automate Pro/ENGINEER session from a Visual Basic program
• Use Internet Explorer to configure Pro/ENGINEER models
• Send values from Excel spreadsheets directly to Pro/ENGINEER dimensions or parameters
• Use Microsoft Word as a data input screen to Pro/PROGRAM or Pro/NOTEBOOK
• Create custom interfaces to Pro/ENGINEER that allow non-Pro/ENGINEER users to configure and generate models and documents
• Create Pro/ENGINEER design utilities in Visual Basic
• Use Excel, Access, SQLServer, or Oracle to store Family Table Data
• Retrieve parameter information directly from Pro/ENGINEER models into MS Office applications for calculations

Custom projects developed using AGW

• DBT - Conveyor System Configurator
• ODU
• Termaco - Battery Tray Configurator
• Thermokey - Heat Exchanger Configurator