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[K Kramer]

I'm trying to get into SpaceClaim scripting (not a professional programmer) and have a few questions:

1. What are the differences between SpaceClaim and DesignModeler?
2. Is there a comprehensive command reference other than the API documentation? Looking up commands in the API doc can be a bit tedious at times since they are spread across multiple categories and poorly documented, which means I basically have to learn the syntax by recording scripts.
3. I noticed scripts can be saved as either *.py or *.scscript files. Is there any difference between them?
4. Just out of interest: The Python scripts are directly processed by SpaceClaim, but afaik the API can also be used with C# (at least the syntax is in the doc). Does anyone know how a C# program would connect to SpaceClaim?

Thanks a lot.

[Aniket Chavan]

SpaceClaim is a direct modeler while DesignModeler is more of a classic history-based Modeler. SpaceClaim is being developed actively, while the DM is now in maintenance mode along with scripting in DM.
C:\Program Files\ANSYS Inc\v212\scdm\ should have more resources under the API versions folders with names such as SpaceClaim.Api.V19 etc, have you taken a look at it?
later can store smart variables, and is encrypted, so can't be read in text editors
resources at answer 2 should have examples there.
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[K Kramer]

Thanks for your answer. Yes, there are multiple files in the folder:
Some of them contain further information, but as far as I see the only complete command list is found in the .chm files and is rather sparse. But I hope I'll learn by doing.
Also, what are smart variables? ;)

[Aniket Chavan]

smart variables are variables with metadata, with short names unlike the index-based variables for entity selection.

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[K Kramer]

Thanks a lot.