最近开始对 CATIA 进行一些自动化的开发,本来想找 CAA 来进行研究,可惜一直没时间和机会去找,暂时就利用 CATIA Automation 来开发了。
由于利用 VB 或 VB.NET 将CATIA 脚本转化为程序确实方便,不过利用C++来操作更适合于我这种开发者。
方法有好多种,这里以画圆作为一个简单例子。
1 利用 IDispatch 接口来编程
HRESULT hr;
CLSID AppClsid;
IDispatch *pApp;
::CoInitialize(NULL);
//
::CLSIDFromProgID (L"CATIA.Application", &AppClsid); //get the unique id of CATIA
//
hr = CoCreateInstance(AppClsid,NULL,CLSCTX_LOCAL_SERVER, IID_IDispatch, (void**)&pApp);
VARIANT result, buffer;
VariantInit(&result);
VARIANT arg2;
VariantInit(&arg2);
arg2.vt = VT_BOOL;
arg2.boolVal = TRUE;
hr = AutoWrap(DISPATCH_PROPERTYPUT|DISPATCH_METHOD, &result, pApp, L"Visible", 1, arg2);
hr = AutoWrap(DISPATCH_PROPERTYGET|DISPATCH_METHOD, &result, pApp, L"Documents", 0);//here there is no argument, so we put 0
buffer.vt = VT_DISPATCH;
buffer.pdispVal = result.pdispVal;
IDispatch *documents = buffer.pdispVal;
VARIANT arg1;
VariantInit(&arg1);
arg1.vt = VT_BSTR;
arg1.bstrVal = ::SysAllocString(L"Part");
//VARIANT result, buffer;
VariantInit(&result);
hr = AutoWrap(DISPATCH_METHOD, &result, documents, L"Add", 1 , arg1);
buf