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PROGRAMMING GUIDE

Contents

Programming with Exchange

Working with the Exchange API

Parsing a PRC File

Creating a PRC file that uses boundary representation

Creating a tessellation entity for representing faceted objects

Parsing attributes that appear in an entity base

This section explains how to obtain data from the root-base entity or from the miscellaneous cascaded attributes.

HOOPS Exchange uses a parallel structure for representing attributes that apply to PRC entities that have a particular PRC entity base. Data that is specific to the entity is defined in A3DEntityNameData structures (for example the A3DAsmPartDefinitionData structure). These structures are used to create or parse the entity. Other data is defined in entities specific to the global or base types.