Getting started with PowerShape and PowerMill API

[luke.edwards.autodesk]

Welcome to the PowerShape and PowerMill API Forum!

The documentation attached here is a basic introduction to connecting to and automating PowerShape and PowerMill.

Please use it as a getting started guide.

Use this forum to ask any questions you may have or to request examples of how to achieve things using the API.

[luke.edwards.autodesk]

Also attached here is a Visual Studio solution with 2 example projects.  One is a comparison between firing macro commands and using the API.  The other is an example of docking the applications in a WinForms Form.

[luke.edwards.autodesk]

PowerShape and PowerMill API is now open sourced at:

https://github.com/Autodesk/PowerShapeAndPowerMillAPI

It can be used in Visual Studio project by adding it from nuget.org:

https://www.nuget.org/profiles/Autodesk

For the sake of history, here are the download links to PowerShape and PowerMill API 2017 R3.  Both links give the same file but the file is on both PowerShape and PowerMill AKN...

PowerShape AKN:

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/powershape/downloads/caas/downloads/content/powershape-and-po...

PowerMill AKN:
https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/powermill/downloads/caas/downloads/content/powershape-and-pow...