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From: Richard on 9 Mar 2010 12:08
Hello everybody,

I'd like to use Matlab as my core data / calculation engine for manipulations done on a CATIA V5R19 model. Thus I would like to operate CATIA in a remote mode utilizing the COM interface. I registered CATIA by utilizing the command cnext.exe /regserver.

Using Python 2.5 together with the win32com libary for doing this works fine - actually I found an example drawing various things via Python in CATIA. Exactly the same I'd like to do out of Matlab (2009b). I tried this with

h = actxserver('CATIA.Application')

returns (after 1' of loading)

h =

COM.CATIA_Application

but does not return further command opportunities. If I try to make the CATIA window visible, which can be easily done in Python (e.g. catia.Visible = 1), but is rejected in Matlab, stateing:

>> h.Visible = 1
??? No public field Visible exists for class COM.CATIA_Application.

What has to be done to utilize the full spectrum of CATIA commands, identically to the ones found via Python?

Thank you very much for your suggestions,

Richard

P.S.: Links to CATIA via Python...
http://win32com.goermezer.de/dmdocuments/CATIA_mit_Python.pdf
http://code.activestate.com/recipes/347243-automate-catia-v5-with-python-and-pywin32/
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