To evaluate Manufacturing Toolkit, please contact the sales to receive the MTK package.
Uncompress the package into some directory (hereinafter referred to as ${install_dir}
).
Save the license key file you received for your evaluation period to the respective language directory in ${install_dir}/examples
. Set up your development environment depending on your programming language and preferred IDE.
The fastest way to prepare your development environment is to use the provided examples and generate project files for your preferred IDE. In this case, the generators will set up required paths and environment variables for you.
Otherwise you can just copy examples' code excerpts into your existing projects. In this case, just make sure that you properly set the paths to header and library files of Manufacturing Toolkit, respecting OS, architecture and debug/release versions. Note that whenever you change a required configuration (e.g. when switching from debug to release) make sure you update your environment. Manufacturing Toolkit libraries are located in separate subfolders depending on target configuration.
To set up environment specific to your programming language select one of the links below:
MTK Converter is an executable CLI tool for Windows and Linux that helps to integration MTK data into web solutions. It represents a pre-built version of MTK Converter Example and is used in Examples and Tutorials.
MTK Converter tool is included in the MTK package:
<MTK-folder>\win64\vc14.1\bin\MTKConverter.exe
<MTK-folder>/lin64/gcc7/bin/MTKConverter
For MTK Converter Tool to start, the evaluation license key should be copied into the directory containing MTKConverter application.
To launch MTK Converter Tool:
MTKConverter -h
to see how to use the tool.