Getting started with Pro/Toolkit

[jdavis]

Sorry in advance if I sound completely ignorant. I'm
trying to find some direction.

My employer currently uses Intralink/WildFire for their
CAD environment. There's some pretty dated integrated
apps developed in Pro/TOOLKIT in there as well.

Well, now we're upgrading to PDMLink/Windchill, and
they've come to me about how we're going to go forward
with our CAD development stuff.

First, they're willing to send me to training. As far as
I can see, there's only 1 place that offers training with
these APIs and that's
<a href="http://www.felcosolutions.com/" target="_blank">Felco
Solutions</a>. Unfortunately, that doesn't even really
help me too much because I don't even know what I need
training in.

There seems to be a lengthy list of different development
environments available within Windchill, and I don't even
know how to choose one.

Ultimately, my employer would like for me to be
proficient at Pro/Toolkit (but it appears that the new
Object/Toolkit will be coming out soon to replace this?),
and I'd appreciate any help in trying to make the most
informed decisions in the beginning.

 

[DonChunior]

Hi jadavis,


I would recommend you a one-week training to get familiar with Pro/TOOLKIT.
If you don't want to go to a training, study and compile the example applications very accurate!


In Europe we've much more providers for trainings, but I assume this doesn't help you very much.


If you want to customize PDMLink too, you also need knowledge in development with Java.


Regarding the new Object/Toolkit in Creo Parametric: I compared it with Pro/TOOLKIT and recognized, that Pro/TOOLKIT currently has much more possibilities than the Object/Toolkit. For example in the Object/Toolkit are no functionalities to handle dialogs.
As long as these missing functionalities are not implemented in the Object/Toolkit, I don't thing that it will replace Pro/TOOLKIT.


Regards, DonChunior