DLL/NX Journal from Batch commands 1

[Frank2288]

Hi all! I need to launch a DLL that i wrote from batch.

I found something on multiple forums and on nxjournaling.com, but not quite the information that i need. I have a few questions:

The best thing would be to launch a DLL (simuling the CTRL+U command within NX) that could interact with a part already open in NX. Also a journal file would be sufficient. I saw that there is the run_journal.exe line to launch a journal file, but I can't manage to interact with an existing session of NX (with an open part). Is it possible? Does it exist something similar to launch directly a DLL?

Thanks a lot

Francesco

 

[markrief]

Can you explain more of what you want to do?
If you want to work on a part open in the session, the session should start the program.
Generally, a program run in batch starts its own process and has no UI access.

The only way I can imagine a program communicating with an already open NX session is to use ugs_router.

Mark Rief
NX CAM Customer Success
Siemens PLM Software

 

[Frank2288]

Thank you for your answer, i will look into ugs_router.

I'll try to explain everything better with an example. I'd like to open a part (let's say that contains a cylinder) and, leaving the same first session open, launch a series of journals/dll interacting with the cylinder. For example, I could have one journal that evaluate the volume of the cylinder, and another one that modify its dimensions. Then i could like to know again the volume once that the second DLL is finished, and so launch the first dll again and so on.

In other words: is there a way to interact by batch commands with an open session of NX (the one containing the cylinder in this example) such that a third party software (e.g. Matlab) could control the whole process via batch, launching the DLLs/journal files following an algorithm?

p.s. you could ask me why you don't create the control algorithm in NXopen, but I have lots of tools (especially optimization tools) already built and ready in Matlab, so i'd like to let Matlab control everything.

Thanks

 

[cowski]

I'm 95% sure that what you are describing is called "remoting"; this allows your program to interact with an open NX session. You can find some example code in your {NX install}\UGOPEN\SampleNXOpenApplications\{.NET | Java} directory.

www.nxjournaling.com

 

[Frank2288]

Yes, you are absolutely right. I was looking into that, but I would have liked to know if there was a way to do that via batch. Anyway, i guess i'll use a remote server.

 

[cowski]

I'm not sure what you mean by "do that via batch". If you use remoting, your program essentially has full control of the NX session. You could start your program from a batch file if you want; what am I missing?

www.nxjournaling.com

 

[Frank2288]

Well, the way I see it, you have the same results, once that the method is working. But i thought that doing the "full control" by command line (windows cmd) was simpler for me than start a server/remoting connection.

I don't know much about programming, so maybe I am wrong or I missed something.

Thanks again anyway.