2010/2/21 Bryan Bishop <kanz...@gmail.com> > On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Thomas Paviot wrote: > > A few years ago, I developed a software aimed at providing rigid body > > simulation features to Catia V5 or SolidWorks. This project, known as > > "Decade dynamics", is not active anymore although many users are > frequently > > asking for new features or bugfixes (for your information, a website > > dedicated to the project is available at http://www.decade-dynamics.org > , > > there also is a PDF document here: > > http://download.gna.org/decade/decade_A4_recto_basse_def.pdf and > > http://download.gna.org/decade/decade_A4_verso_basse_def.pdf - All this > > material is in french, sorry). > > The limitations I faced when working on that project are the root of my > > motivation to start the pythonOCC project: > > - the small 'free' API provided with Catia or SolidWorks (a VB API) is > not > > sufficient to access all internal classes/method, > > I wanted to mention something on this front, and it's not quite > related to your latest rigid body simulations. A few weeks ago I was > feeling bummed that the solidworks API is so inaccessible, even with > their VisualBasic extensions via COM32. So I started on another option > that may or may not be useful to someone else- accessing the > solidworks API through python while running under wine (a mouthful, I > know). Here's how far I got: > > http://heybryan.org/~bbishop/docs/solidworks.py > > Anyway, the remaining problem on that front is that I don't know the > parameters to all the functions found in the DLL files, so without > getting my hands on more documentation, that python-based solution > isn't going to be of much use. Right now it's like random shots in the > dark.. and some of the DLLs file just flat out crash, and have various > dependency issues with each other, blah blah blah. > > - Bryan > http://heybryan.org/ > 1 512 203 0507 >
Hi Bryan, I also tried the ctypes solution. It's almost impossible to achieve in a 'blind' mode, i.e. without having the official documentation of the API (impossible may be exaggerated, I mean I was not able to achieve it!). On the other hand, this way to proceed is reverse engineering: if you ever manage to be successful, the licence doesn't allow you to redistribute you work, and you actually don't even have the right to do it. Thomas
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