nwcreate2swig

Partially SWIG-wrapper for Autodesk Navisworks NWC format (nwcreate lib). Focus on write-procedures (for create NWC-file).

Updates look at UPDATES.md

https://github.com/Vinny-Environment/nwcreate2swig

Dev

Solution nwcreateWrapper consists of two main projects: nwcreateWrapperLib and nwcreateNET:

• nwcreateWrapperLib: visual cpp project of Dynamic link library, the wrapper-classes and wrapper-enums around original Autodesk NWcreate CPP API and SWIG-interface file for wrappers. Paths to SWIG and NWcreate are stored in .props config file (located at \src\nwcreateWrapperLib\nwcreateWrapperLibDeps.props);
• nwcreateNET: netstandard2.0-library, all .cs files are cleaned as Pre-Build-procedure in nwcreateWrapperLib and generated automatically via SWIG's command when nwcreateWrapperLib is compiled. The OutDir's tag set to catalogue for other Vinny's tools.

NWcreate wrapper's notes

The wrappers only created for LcNwc* classes and LtNwc enums from native Autodesk Navisworks NWcreate library. All wrapper-classes and wrapper-enums have Wrapper suffix. All arguments in constructors, methods are changed in wrapper-classes for more memory-efficient and protect crashes (System.AccessViolationException-errors).

The compulsory procedure LiNwcApiInitialise() is placed on LcNwcSceneWrapper-constructor.

Because of SWIG's generate large-files (.cxx) and (*.cs) they are ignored in .gitgnore.

ATTENTION!!!: when using nwcreateNET-library with other projects, which output-catalogue is different than with nwcreateNET wou will need to add the catalogue with nwcreateNET.dll to Environmental's PATH variable, otherwise you will getting an error DllNotFoundException: Unable to load DLL 'nwcreateWrapperLib' or one of its dependencies:

Differences in names

• LcNwcBRepEntity::GetType() -> LcNwcBRepEntityWrapper::GetBRepEntityType() (because in .NET the GetType() method will conflicted with system's method);