Newbie Help: Automation / Batch file processing

Im a programmer working on a team of Pro/E users (wildfire).

I'm trying to figure out it Pro/E has ways to allow me to automate
some of the more tedious tasks they perform, such as opening multiple
model files.

They used to use IDEA-S, which supported a .CMD file, sort of a BASIC
language file that ran and could control the interface, as if the user
were running the commands with their mouse and IDEA-S GUI.

Does Pro/E Wildfire have this? I'm a programmer, not a sales pitch
reader / CAD guy, so I can't tell from PTC's site if it does or does
not (and if it does, what components I would need to be running).

I'll take any language (C/++, JAVA, etc.), by the way... the BASIC
thing was just an example...

-- TC

 

Besides mapkeys, which are basically macros trail files are the most
basic tool for automation. A trail file is generated every time you run
Pro/E and it records mouse clicks, input, and what not. It can be
edited and paused for user input and so on. Besides running one
manually a mapkey can call a trail file or a trail file can be specified
when you start Pro/E.

Also, Pro/E can be run in batch mode to do the most common/tedious
stuff, like batch printing. Take a look at the OCUS utilities, though
they're out of date they're very good. It's impressive how much can be
done with just shell scripts.

The next step up is Jlink, which is a Java Toolkit for writing applets
and automating Pro/E tasks. It's free and mysterious but not installed
by default.

The next step up is Pro/Toolkit, which I believe provides a full C/C++
API to Pro/E. It's extra and very expensive last I checked.

Regards,