CATIA Training V5 Automation

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• COM (Component Object Model) is the Microsoft standard toshare objects between several applications.• Automation is a Microsoft technology to use COM objects in an interpreted environment.• ActiveX component is a Microsoft standard to share objects between several applications even in an interpreted environment.• OLE (Object Linking and Embedding) means that the document can be linked in the document of an other application OLE and can be edited in that other application (In place editing).


VBScript(Visual Basic Script) is a subset of VBA. It is a simple interpreted Basic languageOnly Windows/Unix « compatible » languageCan call CATIA ObjectsDirectly launchable from a saved macro Weak help to programmingVery light internal editorNo type is used. The system tries dynamically to call methods and properties of objects. Sequential programmingPoor User Interface tools