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Batch Plotting UG Files from Visual Basics

Batch Plotting UG Files from Visual Basics

Batch Plotting UG Files from Visual Basics

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Hi,
I'm actualy a Visual Basic programmer of sorts and have a lot of experience with Pro/Wildfire. What I want to know is 1) What is Grips Programming? and 2)Can anyone tell me if the UG object library is available to Visual Basics/
Thanx in  advance,
Allan

RE: Batch Plotting UG Files from Visual Basics

GRIP is an older, unsupported internal to UG programming langaugae.

The distributed UG Libraries are in C or C++.

"Wildfires are dangerous, hard to control, and economically catastrophic."

Ben Loosli
Sr IS Technologist
L-3 Communications

RE: Batch Plotting UG Files from Visual Basics

What version of UG are you working with?

The newer versions (NX3 or higher) have .net as the macro language. I have not personally used this feature yet (I'm still on NX2) so I can't comment on if batch printing is possible with it. If not, it may be in future releases as they are phasing in the .net support.

On the older versions of UG, C or C++ is your best bet (as Ben mentioned), but you will need additional licenses for UG to use it (the development and execute licenses are an additional cost on top of the base UG modeling license). Maybe someone has developed C++ wrappers to allow VB to interface with UG, but if so I'd bet the wrappers don't come free either.

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