URGENT Programming in ProE W/o ProToolkit

[rajendarr]

Hi,

I am trying to make an interface between ProEngineer wildfire 2 and
MATLAB. the goal is to attain a somewhat automated data transfer
between the two packages.
I have created a ProE model from user input variables, create a program
file, let MATLAB read it , perform an optimization routine, export the
results to a text file and make ProEngineer read it. this i am able to do
with mapkeys.
however my istructor wants me to creat an interface so that during each
step of the optimization process(each improvement towards the optimum
value), the data is transfered to ProE which generates the part, performs
some calculations of its own like mass properties and returns the data in
a file that MATLAB reads and peforms the next step in optimization. and
continues to do so till the convergence is achieved. and proe generates
the final part.

is there a way that Pro E can be programmed to automatically read the
file generated by MATLAB each time? and can this be done with the normal
pro engineer wildfire (without API Toolkit)?

it will be a great great help

thanks
Lalit

 

[_olivier_]

Hi,



I will try to help you with some tips because I didn't try anything...



In Pro/Engineer, its
free, you could maybe use Jlink or Web/link.
In both case, it

 

[rajendarr]

Thanks Oliver1979,

it was a great help. i think there is no other way but to use J-lnk right now. only thing is that i havent a tiny bit tof idea about how to prgram in Java.

I was hoping that there is some utility in Proengineer (like mapkey) that can be used. but i dont know.

Thanks

Lalit