In an old LinkedIn post I was talking about revealing some ‘’hidden’’ commands in 3DEXPERIENCE by using a command in Power Input text box.

The command is “c: Application Frame Structure Exposition” and this will expose a lot of things which can help you in the automation of CATIA 3DEXPERIENCE (the title of the command, ID, DLL used….).

If you will look closer in the installation folder of the software, you will find all V6 commands in a single text file.

Using this file, I have done an Excel file (attached here) where you can filter commands, ID, dll file names or workbenches.

Be careful to apply the correct command in the correct workbench, according to your roles/licenses.

For example, if you want to switch to another workbench, just search what you need and use CATIA.StartWorkbench(“……”) in your code.

There are cases when the “Alias” will work because is the same value as what you have in  “c: Application Frame Structure Exposition “ results, an example can be in this case, CATIA.StartCommand(‘Volume Extrude”) or CATIA.StartCommand(‘CATSdwVolumeExtrudeHdr”), using any of them will have the same result.

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