Add-On Documentation and Samples

[chaitanyat]

This section will provide you detailed information regarding creating Add-Ons for Alibre Design, various Add-On samples to get you started and programmatic guidelines for creating these add-ons.

 

[chaitanyat]

Getting Started

Please download the attached Add-On Introduction.zip file containing the introductory document for creating Add-On.

 

[Jonathan]

Sample Add-ons

Attached is a zip file containing a sample tightly integrated add-on as well as the full documentation for it in C++.

The animation add-on demonstrates a tightly integrated addon working inside Assembly workspace.

There is a word document, “.\Docs\AddOnInteg_GettingStarted.docx”, that explains add-on concepts for tight integration including how addon can process various user events.

There is a Readme.txt in the zip file that explains how to build and deploy the sample add-on

5/15/2020: Sample updated for V21.

 

[Jonathan]

The sample addon in attached DXSampleAddOn.zip demonstrates how an add-on renders it’s 3D graphics into Alibre Design part workspace window. You can check out the usage of these in the source file named DrawTriangleCommand.cpp - under implementation of method DrawTriangle ().

There is a Readme.txt in the zip file that explains how to build and deploy the sample add-on

5/15/2020: Sample tested to run on V21

 

[Jonathan]

This sample addon shows how the various entities can be selected using AlibreX api. There is a Readme.txt in the zip file that explains how to build and deploy the sample add-on.

5/15/2020: Sample has been tested to run on V21.